2024-01-07

2024-01-07

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January 07, 2024

UKRAINE WAR
Last weekend, 25 people were killed and more than 100 injured in one of the deadliest attacks on Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.The governor said residents would be taken to the towns of Stary Oskol and Gubkin where they could stay "for as long as necessary". However, he said not everyone could be accommodated there, so he would ask colleagues from other regions to help. The cross-border fire comes as the US accuses Russia of a "significant and concerning escalation" in Ukraine, with the use of ballistic missiles and launchers supplied by North Korea. Moscow has denied any such collaboration

Source GOVERNOR GLADKOV TELEGRAM CHANNEL

ENVIROMENTAL UPDATES
The year 2024 will be marked by a number of events and observances with important implications for the environment, biodiversity, and global sustainability . Here are some key international events and meetings planned (dates and details subject to change): 9 – 10 January: 5th Meeting of the UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen The UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen is convening for its fifth meeting, aimed at advancing the implementation of UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) resolutions 4/14 and 5/2 concerning "Sustainable Nitrogen Management."

WORLD
Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel in ‘initial response’ to killing of top leader from allied Hamas. Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel, warning that the attack was its initial response to the targeted killing of a top Hamas leader in Lebanon's capital earlier this week. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said his group must retaliate for the killing of Saleh Arouri, the deputy political leader of the militia's ally Hamas, in a Hezbollah stronghold south of Beirut. The Israeli military said about 40 rockets were fired toward Meron and that a base was targeted, but made no mention of the base being hit. The cross-border escalation came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was kicking off an urgent Middle East diplomatic tour. The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said it is imperative to avoid a regional escalation in the Middle East and Lebanon being dragged into a regional conflict.Blinken began his latest Mideast trip in Turkey on Saturday. The Biden administration believes Turkey and others can exert influence, particularly on Iran and its proxies, to tamp down fears of a regional conflagration. Those fears have spiked in recent days with incidents in the Red Sea, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran.The EU’s foreign policy chief also will visit Saudi Arabia on Sunday. He said that he aims to jump-start a European-Arab initiative to revive a peace process that would result in a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Source(AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)