Iran’s supreme leader says military should decide how to respond to Israeli attack
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says ‘evil committed by Zionist regime’ should not be downplayed nor exaggerated
Sun 27 Oct 2024 06.30 EDT
Iranian military officials should decide how to respond to Friday night’s Israeli attack on Iran, but the event should neither be minimised nor exaggerated, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Sunday in his first response to the attack.
A debate has been set off inside Iran on whether the Israeli attack, more limited than some had predicted, warrants a military response and if the country will be seen as weak if it does nothing.
“The evil committed by the Zionist regime [Israel] two nights ago should neither be downplayed nor exaggerated,” Khamenei said.
Georgia: Ruling Georgian Dream party wins election
Georgia's electoral commission has declared the ruling Georgian Dream party the winner of Saturday's vote. Opposition parties are not recognizing the results, while OSCE observers spoke of "democratic backsliding."
Georgia's ruling Georgian Dream party won Saturday's parliamentary election, receiving more than 54% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Sunday.
The result is a setback for those Georgians who would like their country to integrate into the EU, as the Georgian Dream party is seen as tending more toward Russia than the West, despite declarations to the contrary.
Several pro-European opposition coalitions have not recognized the preliminary result and have announced protests.
'The guardrails are gone': Full throttle as Europe tries to Trump-proof itself
Donald Trump’s presidency was marked by the US withdrawal from a host of international accords – including the Paris Agreement and the Iran nuclear deal – and even threats to leave NATO. But there were still career civil servants on his staff acting as the “adults in the room” and a war was not being waged on European soil. Ahead of his possible return, Europe is racing to "Trump-proof" itself.
Trump has vowed to pursue certain aims if he once again becomes president of the United States, and his proposals, however outlandish, are generating concern abroad. He has vowed to end the war in Ukraine “in 24 hours” by negotiating with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, ask Europe to foot the bill for billions of dollars in US aid to Ukraine, pull out of the Paris climate deal (again), and impose steep tariffs on foreign imports – up to 200 percent in some cases.
In the run-up to what is expected to be an extremely tight US election on November 5, leaders on the other side of the Atlantic are taking action. Europe is in a more vulnerable place now than it was during Trump’s first term, given that war has since returned to the continent with the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Moreover, the former president has vowed to continue his isolationist, “America first” approach to foreign policy, even planning a more extreme version that he was not able to implement during his first term. Some are even more wary of a “Trump 2.0” scenario.
Exit poll: Ruling coalition on course to lose majority in Lower House election
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 27, 2024 at 20:36 JST
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party was headed for a major defeat in the Oct. 27 Lower House election, an Asahi Shinbun exit poll showed.
The party looked set to win around 185 seats, a sharp fall from the 247 seats it held.
Junior coalition partner Komeito is projected to win 26 seats, down from the 32 seats it held.
That would give the parties about 210 seats, falling short of the 233 needed for a majority.
In total, 465 seats were up for grabs.
The outcome marks the first time since 2009, when a change of government occurred, for the ruling coalition to fall short of a majority.
One dead, dozens injured after truck hits Israel bus stop
A man has died and at least 30 more have been injured after a truck hit a bus stop near an Israeli military base north of Tel Aviv, in what authorities are investigating as a suspected terror attack.
"A truck hit dozens of people who had disembarked at a bus stop. Eight of the wounded were trapped under the truck and others were lying and walking near it,” a medic for Israel's Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service said.
Many of the injured were reportedly pensioners on a day trip to a nearby museum.
The driver of the truck, named as Rami Natur, an Arab Israeli from the town of Qalansawe in central Israel, was shot dead by a civilian at the scene.
Revealed: Farage-inspired plot to persuade Trump to veto Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal
A Nigel Farage-inspired bid to persuade Donald Trump to veto Keir Starmer’s controversial Chagos Islands deal can be revealed today.
The Independent has seen legal advice on Starmer’s controversial deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius sent to Mr Trump that was requested after the Reform UK leader raised the issue directly with the former president’s team.
The advice was drawn up by legal experts who worked alongside Mr Farage in the Brexit campaign.
Mr Farage says he was not directly involved in the legal advice but his links with Trump are believed to have played a vital part in the initiative.
The aim of Farage and his allies is to persuade Trump to block the deal if he becomes president.
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