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'No substitute to peace': India calls for ceasefire in Gaza, release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas
India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Harish P., delivered an address at the UN Security Council Quarterly Open Debate on the Situation in the Middle East, where he also said that all the remaining Israeli hostages must be released immediately read more India has called for a ceasefire in Gaza, saying that intermittent pauses in hostilities are not enough, considering the scale of humanitarian crisis that has struck the region. India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Harish P., delivered an address at the UN Security Council Quarterly Open Debate on the Situation in the Middle East, where he also said that all the remaining Israeli hostages must be released immediately. 'The way ahead is clear, and India has been consistent in this regard. The ongoing human suffering must not be allowed to continue. Humanitarian assistance needs to be facilitated in a safe, sustained and timely manner. There is no substitute to peace. A ceasefire must be put in place. All hostages must be released. Dialogue and diplomacy remain the only viable paths to achieving these objectives. There are no other fixes or solutions,' he said. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Of the 251 hostages taken during Hamas's 2023 attack, 49 are still being held in Gaza, including 27 the Israeli military says are dead. #IndiaAtUN PR @AmbHarishP delivered 🇮🇳's statement at the @UN Security Council Quarterly Open Debate on the Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. @MEAIndia @IndianDiplomacy — India at UN, NY (@IndiaUNNewYork) July 23, 2025 India officially backs a two-state solution for Palestine, where a sovereign, independent and viable State of Palestine should be established within secure and recognised borders, living alongside Israel with peace. What's going on with Gaza truce? Hamas confirmed on Thursday that it has responded to an Israeli proposal for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza, after more than two weeks of indirect talks in Qatar have failed to yield a truce. 'Hamas has just submitted its response and that of the Palestinian factions to the ceasefire proposal to the mediators,' the Palestinian militant group said in a statement on response included proposed amendments to clauses on the entry of aid, maps of areas from which the Israeli army should withdraw, and guarantees on securing a permanent end to the war, according to a Palestinian source familiar with ongoing talks in Doha. Negotiators from both sides have been holding indirect talks in Doha with mediators in an attempt to reach an agreement on a truce deal that would see the release of Israeli hostages. With inputs from agencies
Time of India
19-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Russian strikes kill three across Ukraine
Russian strikes resulted in three fatalities across Ukraine, targeting civilian infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa. Moscow temporarily halted train services in the Rostov region following a Ukrainian drone attack that injured a railway worker. The EU has approved an 18th package of sanctions against Russia, aiming to weaken its financial capacity to sustain the conflict. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Russian strikes killed three people across Ukraine on Saturday, authorities said, while Moscow had to briefly suspend trains in its southern Rostov region after an overnight drone attack by has escalated long-range aerial attacks on Ukrainian cities as well as frontline assaults and shelling over recent months, defying US President Donald Trump's warning that Moscow could face massive new sanctions if no peace deal is people died after a Russian missile hit Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region, an important industrial hub, which Russia's forces have recently advanced to the regional governor Sergiy Lysak, the strike destroyed "an outpatient clinic, a school and a cultural institution" in the Vasylkivska township, with some private houses and cars damaged as meanwhile, had to suspend trains for about four hours overnight in the southern Rostov region when it came under a Ukrainian drone attack which injured one railway passengers remained stranded, and the suspension caused mass delays of trains in the region, which borders Ukraine and over which air traffic has been halted since the beginning of the war three years the Russian military said it had intercepted six aerial bombs and 349 drones on earlier Russian salvo of 20 drones on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa killed at least one person overnight, its mayor said."Civilian infrastructure was damaged as a result of the attack. A residential high-rise building is on fire" and rescuers were pulling people out, mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov wrote on Black Sea port, a UNESCO World Heritage listed city known for picturesque streets and 19th-century buildings, has been regularly targeted by Russian European Union on Friday agreed an 18th package of sanctions on Moscow that targets Russian banks and lowers a price cap on oil exports, in a bid to curb its ability to fund the war.
Time of India
20-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
EU, UK put more curbs on Russia; target companies, oil tankers
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel BRUSSELS/LONDON: The European Union and Britain announced new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday without waiting for the United States to join them, a day after President Donald Trump's phone call with Vladimir Putin failed to elicit a promise for a ceasefire in and Brussels said their new measures would zero in on Moscow's "shadow fleet" of oil tankers and financial companies that have helped it avoid the impact of other sanctions imposed over the war. "Sanctions matter, and I am grateful to everyone who makes them more tangible for the perpetrators of the war," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on sanctions were unveiled without an immediate announcement of corresponding steps from Washington, despite intense public lobbying from leaders of European countries for the Trump administration to join them."We have repeatedly made it clear that we expect one thing from Russia - an immediate ceasefire without preconditions," German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on the sidelines of a meeting with his EU counterparts in Brussels. As Russia had not accepted a ceasefire, "we will have to react," he said. "We also expect our U.S. allies not to tolerate this."Russia and Ukraine held their first direct talks in more than three years on Friday at Trump's behest, but failed to agree a truce after Moscow presented conditions that a member of the Ukrainian delegation called "non-starters".Ukraine says it is ready for an immediate ceasefire proposed by Trump, while Russia says it wants talks first. The Europeans say this is proof that Putin, who started the war by invading his neighbour in 2022, is not prepared to end it.
Time of India
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
A Russian missile-and-drones attack kills 2 people in Ukraine's capital
Ukraine, aftermath of attack (AP) KYIV: Russia launched a missile and a barrage of drones targeting the Ukrainian capital before dawn on Wednesday, leaving at least two people dead, Ukrainian officials people were also wounded in the attack, including four children, the Kyiv City military administration said in a post on attack came ahead of a planned unilateral 72-hour ceasefire in the more than three-year war announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin to coincide with celebrations in Moscow marking Victory Day in World War II. Ukraine has unsuccessfully sought a longer and immediate Kremlin said the truce, ordered on "humanitarian grounds," would start on Thursday and last through Saturday to mark Moscow's defeat of Nazi Germany in least one ballistic missile and 28 Russian drones were recorded in the airspace of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, the administration said. Air Defense forces shot down the missile and 11 drones.A five-story residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district was hit by drone debris, sparking a fire in several apartments where the victims were found, he said. Four people, including three children, were hospitalized, while others received treatment on the Sviatoshynskyi district, fire broke out across multiple upper-floor apartments of a nine-story building after drone debris impact, according to the Kyiv City Military Administration. Five people were rescued from the blaze, which spanned 100 square Dniprovskyi district, the upper floors of a high-rise were partially destroyed by a drone strike, but no injuries were reported. In Solomianskyi, a ballistic missile was intercepted by air defense, with the warhead falling and damaging non-residential infrastructure. One person was injured in that was no immediate comment from Moscow on the Day celebrates the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 and is Russia's biggest secular holiday. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and others will gather in the Russian capital on Thursday for the 80th anniversary and watch a parade featuring thousands of troops accompanied by tanks and Foreign Ministry urged foreign countries not to send military representatives to take part in the parade, as some have in the past. None is officially confirmed for this year's event.
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Disinformation operation falsely claims Olena Zelenska attempted to flee Ukraine
A known Russian disinformation operation has once again targeted Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska, spreading false claims that she attempted to flee to Europe amid a "strained relationship" with her husband Volodymyr Zelenskyy. There is no truth behind these claims, and there are signs they're part of a coordinated, Moscow-backed disinformation operation. A fake video report bearing the logo of the BBC and detailing Zelenska's alleged failed escape surfaced on X and Telegram earlier this week and has since been amplified on TikTok and Facebook. The voiceover in the clip falsely claims Zelenska had been planning to escape to an unnamed Europe country for "six months" and is being held by Ukraine's security services after her plans were foiled. The clip has been doctored to mimic the look and feel of the BBC. Shayan Sardarizadeh, a senior journalist for the BBC's fact-checking service, said in a statement on X that the "BBC never published this video clip."He added that the manipulated video was the work of "a well-known Russian disinformation operation" that uses the "logo and branding of major news outlets to publish fake videos that disparage Ukraine." Euroverify has in the past detected similar fraudulent videos bearing the Euronews logo. Our fact-checkers have also monitored the activity of the Moscow-backed 'Doppelgänger' campaign, which clones the websites of renowned media outlets by purchasing similar-looking domains and imitating their layout and style. Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation, a government agency, also detected fake front pages of British newspapers, with headlines such as "Where's Olena Zelenska?", circulating on Russian propaganda channels on images have yet again been manipulated and such content was never published by the news outlets in question. The fake BBC video was first shared by an X account called "Peacemaker," and had been viewed 500,000 times at the time of publication of this article. The account, which has some 40,000 followers, is known to fact-checkers. It consistently shares unfounded claims about the war in Ukraine. Euroverify has in the past debunked similar disinformation being shared by the same account, such as unfounded claims Zelenska had spent €4.5 million on a Bugatti during a visit to Paris. Despite documented evidence that the account forms part of a Russian disinformation campaign, including an investigation by the BBC in July last year, the account remains active on X. It also bears the blue verification checkmarks, indicating it is part to the platform's Premium subscription. The blue tick was historically a sign the account was notable or authentic. Euroverify reached out to X's press team to understand what measures it was taking to address the spread of such blatant disinformation on these accounts, but has yet to receive a reply.
