With temperatures set to fall to near freezing overnight, rescuers are now in a desperate race against time to reach scores of survivors who remain trapped under collapsed buildings and who are at risk of freezing to death before help arrives.
Their conditions - and those of people left homeless by the 7.8 and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes - are set to worsen soon. Rain was falling on Monday and snowstorms that swept the country over the weekend are expected to last until Thursday.
Stuart Littlewood highlights the servility of British politicians towards Israel, noting Israeli asset and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer's and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's reprimands of MP Kim Johnson for speaking the truth in calling Israel fascist.>>
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken embarks on a Middle East tour as tensions between Israelis and Palestinians explode, NATO and Washington seek to rally Asian allies in the face of threats from China and North Korea, and the EU is searching for ways to seize Russian assets. These stories topped Tuesday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) told The Times of Israel that the US should sell F-35 fighter jets to Arab countries that have normalized with Israel under the Abraham Accords in exchange for investments that could benefit the Palestinians.
Saudi-led coalition shelling in Saada’s Shadaa district reportedly killed two civilians and injured four on 22 January, an Al-Mayadeen correspondent said.
The news was also reported by Yemen’s Al-Masirah TV, affiliated with the Ansarallah resistance movement and the National Salvation Government (NSG) based in Sanaa.
According to Al-Masirah, these latest Saudi truce violations have sent the death toll from coalition shelling in Saada this month up to seven, with 91 injured so far.
The Royal Jordanian Air Force has announced the purchase of 12 Block 70 F-16s from American aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.
The US State Department approved the sale in February last year, stating that the agreement could reach $4.21 billion.
It included communication systems, targeting pods, and munitions components such as guided missile tail kits.
Pete Gregson explains why the thousand of Israelis who demonstrated against Netanyahu's threat to their 'democracy' are deluded, because theirs is not a democracy but a racist, colonial endeavour that treats non-'Jews' as non-existent.>>
An investigative journalism website has revealed that the former United Nations special envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, is linked to the British spy agency MI6 through the private conflict resolution company Inter Mediate.
Stuart Littlewood comments on Facebook's suspension of Gaza-based Father Manuel Musallam's account, highlighting the 'turbulent priest's' extraordinary courage, truthfulness and plain speaking, qualities totally absent from Western churchmen and politicians.>>
