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The leaders have made a call for a ceasefire in Gaza, BRICS countries, including Presidents of China’s Xi Jinping, Russia Vladimir Putin, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but, perhaps most importantly, they discussed an alternative, non-Western payment system.

If Joe Biden‘s pick, Kamala Harris, wins the election, she will likely staff her staff with her closest advisers as well as key cabinet members.

Regardless of whether Democrats retain power in the Senate or Republicans take it, 59-year-old Harris will have to figure out which people to keep from the Biden administration.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Russia on Wednesday for talks at the BRICS summit in Kazan.

The two-day summit takes place as the international community is expressing growing concerns over the continued regional conflicts in the Middle East and Eurasia.

Destroyed buildings are seen through the window of an airplane from the U.S. Air Force overflying the Gaza Strip, on March 14, 2024.

United Nations agencies have long warned that it could take decades to rebuild Gaza after Israel's offensive against Hamas, one of the deadliest and most destructive military campaigns since World War II.

Dozens of rockets were launched shortly after 1:00 PM by Hezbollah from Southern Lebanon, targeting central Israel, specifically Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it was forced to postpone the final phase of the polio vaccination drive in Gaza on Wednesday due to "intense bombardment" and "escalating violence" in the northern region.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that "now is the time" to end the conflict in Gaza and urged Israel to avoid further escalation with Iran.

Israel is currently engaged in conflict with Iran-backed Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon and has pledged to retaliate against Iran's Oct. 1 missile strike.

Endy Zemenides, the executive director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, joins Thanos Davelis to look at why the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is a chance to reopen the door to the brief era of regional cooperation that was being celebrated before October 7th, particularly the 3+1 mechanism between Greece, Cyprus, Israel, and the US.

Israel's army stated it had killed the cleric tipped to succeed slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on Beirut three weeks ago that targeted commanders of the Iran-backed militant group.

Hezbollah has not issued a statement about the Israeli claims to have killed Hashem Safieddine.

Images from the early 1990s of thousands of Albanians crammed onto all kinds of ships—most famously the “Vlora” with 10,000 passengers—on the journey of hope from Durrës to Italy are not so distant. It was August 8, 1991, when scenes of a drama were unfolding at the port of Bari that were destined to be repeated.