NNA – „Hezbollah“ announced in communiqués that “the ‘’Islamic Resistance“ targeted a Merkava tank in the town of Rashaf with a loitering glider and achieved a confirmed hit.
The „Islamic Resistance“ also intercepted an Israeli enemy army drone in the airspace of the Tyre region with a surface-to-air missile.
Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun will not speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the near future, a senior Lebanese official told Middle East Eye, after reports of a planned phone call between the two leaders.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Beirut had informed Washington of Aoun’s position ahead of a call between the president and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday.
The development comes two days after the US hosted the ambassadors of Israel and Lebanon in Washington, in the first such talks between the two countries since 1993.
These are trying times.
When President Metsola invited me in September at the High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly, the world felt already chaotic. I warned of a make-or-break moment for our multilateral system.
Today, only 40 days into 2026:
Venezuela.
Iran.
Greenland.
On top of Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and so many more crises.
The international order is not only under pressure, it is under attack.
And we face a new and more troubling kind of crisis: conflicts waged not even under the pretense of self-defense or respect for international law but often carried out in open defiance of it.
At precisely the moment when we most need cooperation, most need the United Nations, powers, even those who have a special responsibility to protect peace and security, are pulling away from it or even outright attacking it.
This geopolitical shift towards a world where ‘might makes right’, contradicts more than a century of hard, bloody lessons, which people of this region remember all too well.
Rules and standards drawn from these experiences, which were believed to be set in stone, are now openly questioned, dismissed, or violated.
History teaches us that large systems rarely collapse in one dramatic moment.
They erode slowly. Rule by rule. Commitment by commitment.
With those who should defend them, rather staying silent.
Until one day, what seemed permanent simply vanishes.
(February 10, 2026)
In a key address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Annalena Baerbock repeated her call to uphold multilateralism amid “trying times” globally.
She noted that just 40 days into 2026, the world has already seen crises around Venezuela, Iran and Greenland, on top of continuing devastation in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere.
“The international order is not only under pressure, it is under attack,” she told lawmakers.
“And we face a new and more troubling kind of crisis: conflicts waged not even under the pretence of self-defence or respect for international law but often carried out in open defiance of it.”
She warned that at precisely the moment the world most needs cooperation and the UN, “powers – even those who have a special responsibility to protect peace and security – are pulling away from it or even outright attacking it.”
Ms. Baerbock recalled that four years ago, when she was Germany’s Foreign Minister, she addressed the General Assembly and called for the UN to stand up for Europe’s peace as Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“Today, I’m coming as President of the General Assembly to Europe, calling for Europe to stand up for the United Nations because the world needs the UN. But right now, the UN and its principles as enshrined in the Charter, needs the world too,” she said, referring to all continents.
Auch wenn die Epstein-Files zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt noch nicht zu weiteren Verfahren geführt haben, legen sie doch die Verkommenheit eines beachtlichen Teils der Reichen und Mächtigen offen. Immer wieder wird auch vermutet, dass politische Einflussnahme eine weitere Aufklärung verhindern könnte, wobei auch in dieser Hinsicht aktuell keine handfesten Erkenntnisse vorliegen.
(January 9, 2026)
“I cannot imagine that in the current situation MEPs would vote for any trade measures benefiting the U.S.,” the Greens’ top trade lawmaker and chair of the Internal Market Committee Anna Cavazzini told POLITICO.
“We should have such a discussion, it’s inevitable,” added Brando Benifei, the Socialist lawmaker who chairs Parliament’s delegation for relations with the U.S.
Under the deal, most EU exports are subject to a 15 percent U.S. tariff. To complete its side of the bargain, the EU also needs to pass legislation to abolish all tariffs on U.S. industrial goods, including the 10 percent it currently slaps on U.S. cars, and ease market access for some farm produce and seafood.
Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues are reporting that demonstrators closed the central train station in the German capital, Berlin, in protest against the attack on the flotilla vessels.
Protests have erupted in several major cities around the world, including Athens, Rome, Istanbul and Tunis.
Eine Mehrheit der Deutschen lehnt Israels brutales Vorgehen ab, das Menschenrechtsorganisationen bereits als Völkermord bezeichnen. Sie fordern von der EU, das Assoziierungsabkommen mit Israel auszusetzen. Länder wie Spanien und Irland sind schon lange dafür.
Doch die deutsche Politik bleibt davon seltsam unberührt. Deutschland sperrt sich dagegen und weiß dabei so sympathische Regierungen wie die von Giorgia Meloni und Viktor Orbán an seiner Seite. Gleichzeitig genehmigt Merz weiter Waffenlieferungen an Israel. Ob Israel damit Kriegsverbrechen begeht oder nicht, ist ihm offensichtlich egal.
German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to garner the parliamentary majority needed to become chancellor on Tuesday in a first round of voting in an unexpected setback for his new coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats.
Es ist ein bisher einmaliger Vorgang in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Noch nie ist nach einer Bundestagswahl und erfolgreichen Koalitionsverhandlungen ein designierter Kanzler bei der Wahl im Bundestag gescheitert.
Die Fraktionen beraten nun, wie sie weiter vorgehen wollen.
„Unimpeded access for humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip must be guaranteed at all times,“ foreign ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer told a press briefing in Berlin.
He voiced his country’s concern over Israel’s move to ban aid into the war-torn enclave, while stressing that “Granting or denial of humanitarian access is not a legitimate means of pressure in negotiations.”
With this deal, the United States is now invested — literally, not figuratively — in what the deal calls “a free, sovereign and secure Ukraine.” That means the United States now has a massive financial incentive to help safeguard Ukraine’s independence. If Ukraine survives, the United States will stand to gain hundreds of billions of dollars; if Ukraine falls, we get nothing.
“At some point, when things settle down, I’m going to meet with China and I’m going to meet with Russia, in particular those two, and I’m going to say there’s no reason for us to be spending almost $1 trillion on the military … and I’m going to say we can spend this on other things,” Trump said.
“When we straighten it all out, then one of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China and President Putin of Russia, and I want to say let’s cut our military budget in half. And we can do that, and I think we’ll be able to do that,” he added.
Die AfD sprach von einem „Schlag ins Gesicht der deutschen Sparer“. „Meint Robert Habeck ernsthaft, dass er die soziale Sicherung retten kann, indem er die private Vorsorge der Menschen erschwert?“, fragte der stellvertretende Bundessprecher Peter Boehringer.
Weniger emotional, aber in der Sache ähnlich ablehnend äußerte sich Kanzler und Kanzlerkandidat Olaf Scholz: „Ein alter Hut, das hat noch nie funktioniert“, sagte der SPD-Politiker zum Grünen-Vorschlag.
Der ehemalige Verteidigungsminister Kim Yong-hyun soll zur Zeit des Ausnahmezustands die Räumung des Parlaments befohlen haben.
Das gab der Kommandeur der Spezialkräfte Kwak Jong-geun bekannt. Demnach sei angeordnet worden, Abgeordnete aus dem Parlament zu entfernen.
Er habe den Befehl jedoch verweigert, sagte Kwak am Freitag Abgeordneten der Demokratischen Partei. Diese hatten die Spezialkräfte besucht, um ihn zu den am Dienstagabend erteilten Befehlen zu befragen.
The president’s announcement that he was prepared to condition American weaponry on Israel’s actions amounts to a turning point in the seven-month conflict between Israel and Hamas. And his acknowledgement that American bombs had been used to kill civilians in Gaza was a stark recognition of the United States’ role in the war.
The president has come under extraordinary pressure, including from members of his own party, to limit shipments of arms amid a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Drei Kandidat*innen-Teams nahmen im ersten Wahlgang an der Mitgliederbefragung teil:
Jana Bertels und Kian Niroomand: 3020 Stimmen (36,11%)
Nicola Böcker-Giannini und Martin Hikel: 4034 Stimmen (48,24%)
Luise Lehmann und Raed Saleh: 1309 Stimmen (15,65%)
Damit kommt es zu einer Stichwahl zwischen den beiden bestplatzierten Teams.
According to Axios, the US and Israeli officials said that the Biden administration was trying to prevent the Palestinians from getting nine votes so that the US would not have to veto the resolution.
Palestine currently has eight security council members expected to support them, including Russia, China, Algeria, Malta, Slovenia, Sierra Leone, Mozambique and Guyana, a senior Israeli official said.
Security Council Press Statement :
Gut zwei Monate nach dem Militärputsch in Niger hat Frankreich mit dem Abzug seiner Truppen aus dem westafrikanischen Staat begonnen. Der Generalstab bestätigte der Nachrichtenagentur dpa, dass der Rückzug heute losgegangen sei.
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut observed that the “fingerprints” of a plan designed to prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from being ordered to recuse himself were “very clear,” while her fellow panel member Justice Uzi Vogelman said simply that “the fact is the law is personal.”
The court’s three most senior justices presided over Thursday’s five-hour hearing, in a case in which, for the first time ever, the attorney general has joined petitioners in asking for a Basic Law to be canceled.
So you think the saga of Benjamin Netanyahu emphatically not being invited to the White House seven months after his return as prime minister is over? Think again. It’s far from over – and no, he wasn’t officially invited by U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday, despite his casual and enthusiastic attempt to present it as such.