CNN — Israel carried out airstrikes in Gaza early Thursday after intercepting a rocket attack from the coastal enclave, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. In a post on Twitter, the IDF said Israeli warplanes had targeted a chemical production site and a weapons factory belonging to Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza. … Read more
CNN — Ukrainian authorities have carried out a series of anti-corruption raids across the country, uncovering stashes of cash as well as luxury watches and cars. Among those involved in the investigations is the acting head of Kyiv’s tax administration, who allegedly participated in a scheme to ignore 45 billion Ukrainian hryvnia ($1.2 billion) in … Read more
CNN — Russia is preparing for a “maximum escalation” of the war in Ukraine, potentially as early as the next few weeks, according to a senior Ukrainian national security official. “These will be defining months in the war,” Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, told Sky News in an interview broadcast … Read more
