The ceasefire announced Tuesday is a major step toward ending nearly 14 months of fighting sparked by the ongoing war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. Israel said it will attack if Hezbollah breaks the ceasefire agreement. The ceasefire calls for an initial two-month halt to fighting and requires Hezbollah to end its armed presence in southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops are to return to their side of the border. An international panel led by the United States will monitor compliance. The ceasefire began at 4 a.m. Wednesday, a day after Israel carried out its most intense wave of airstrikes in Beirut since the start of the conflict that in recent weeks turned into all-out war. At least 42 people were killed in strikes across the country, according to local authorities. The ceasefire does not address the devastating war in Gaza , where Hamas is still holding dozens of hostages and the conflict is more intractable. There appeared to be lingering disagreement over whether Israel would have the right to strike Hezbollah if it believed the militants had violated the agreement, something Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted was part of the deal but which Lebanese and Hezbollah officials have rejected. Israel's security Cabinet approved the U.S.-France-brokered ceasefire agreement after Netanyahu presented it, his office said. U.S. President Joe Biden, speaking in Washington, called the agreement “good news” and said his administration would make a renewed push for a ceasefire in Gaza. The Biden administration spent much of this year trying to broker a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza but the talks repeatedly sputtered to a halt . President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to bring peace to the Middle East without saying how. Still, any halt to the fighting in Lebanon is expected to reduce the likelihood of war between Israel and Iran, which backs both Hezbollah and Hamas and exchanged direct fire with Israel on two occasions earlier this year. Israel says it will ‘attack with might’ if Hezbollah breaks truce Netanyahu presented the ceasefire proposal to Cabinet ministers after a televised address in which he listed accomplishments against Israel’s enemies across the region. He said a ceasefire with Hezbollah would further isolate Hamas in Gaza and allow Israel to focus on its main enemy, Iran. “If Hezbollah breaks the agreement and tries to rearm, we will attack,” he said. “For every violation, we will attack with might.” The ceasefire deal calls for a two-month initial halt in fighting and would require Hezbollah to end its armed presence in a broad swath of southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops would return to their side of the border. Thousands of additional Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers would deploy in the south, and an international panel headed by the United States would monitor compliance. Biden said Israel reserved the right to quickly resume operations in Lebanon if Hezbollah breaks the terms of the truce, but that the deal "was designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities.” Netanyahu’s office said Israel appreciated the U.S. efforts in securing the deal but “reserves the right to act against every threat to its security.” Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati welcomed the ceasefire and described it as a crucial step toward stability and the return of displaced people. Hezbollah has said it accepts the proposal, but a senior official with the group said Tuesday it had not seen the agreement in its final form. “After reviewing the agreement signed by the enemy government, we will see if there is a match between what we stated and what was agreed upon by the Lebanese officials,” Mahmoud Qamati, deputy chair of Hezbollah’s political council, told the Al Jazeera news network. “We want an end to the aggression, of course, but not at the expense of the sovereignty of the state," he said, referring to Israel's demand for freedom of action. “Any violation of sovereignty is refused.” Warplanes bombard Beirut and its southern suburbs Even as ceasefire efforts gained momentum in recent days, Israel continued to strike what it called Hezbollah targets across Lebanon while the militants fired rockets, missiles and drones across the border. An Israeli strike on Tuesday leveled a residential building in central Beirut — the second time in recent days warplanes have hit the crowded area near downtown. At least seven people were killed and 37 wounded, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. Israel also struck a building in Beirut's bustling commercial district of Hamra for the first time, hitting a site around 400 meters (yards) from Lebanon’s Central Bank. There were no reports of casualties. The Israeli military said it struck targets linked to Hezbollah's financial arm. The evacuation warnings covered many areas, including parts of Beirut that previously were not targeted. Residents fled. Traffic was gridlocked, with mattresses tied to some cars. Dozens of people, some wearing pajamas, gathered in a central square, huddling under blankets or standing around fires as Israeli drones buzzed overhead. Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee issued evacuation warnings for 20 buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has a major presence, as well as a warning for the southern town of Naqoura where the U.N. peacekeeping mission, UNIFIL, is headquartered. UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti said peacekeepers will not evacuate. Israeli forces reach Litani River in southern Lebanon The Israeli military also said its ground troops clashed with Hezbollah forces and destroyed rocket launchers in the Slouqi area on the eastern end of the Litani River, a few kilometers (miles) from the Israeli border. Under the ceasefire deal, Hezbollah is required to move its forces north of the Litani, which in some places is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the border. Hezbollah began firing into northern Israel on Oct. 8, 2023, saying it was showing support for the Palestinians, a day after Hamas carried out its attack on southern Israel, triggering the Gaza war. Israel returned fire on Hezbollah, and the two sides have exchanged barrages ever since. Israel escalated its bombardment in mid-September and later sent troops into Lebanon, vowing to put an end to Hezbollah fire so tens of thousands of evacuated Israelis could return to their homes. More than 3,760 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon the past 13 months, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials. The bombardment has driven 1.2 million people from their homes. Israel says it has killed more than 2,000 Hezbollah members. Hezbollah fire has forced some 50,000 Israelis to evacuate in the country’s north, and its rockets have reached as far south in Israel as Tel Aviv. At least 75 people have been killed, more than half of them civilians. More than 50 Israeli soldiers have died in the ground offensive in Lebanon. Chehayeb and Mroue reported from Beirut and Federman from Jerusalem. Associated Press reporters Lujain Jo and Sally Abou AlJoud in Beirut and Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed.NoneAlexandria (US), Dec 10 (AP) A Virginia man accused of funnelling tens of thousands of dollars to the Islamic State group was a lonely man looking for a wife and relentlessly targeted by FBI sting operations, a defence lawyer told jurors on Monday, including one undercover operative who pretended to be a willing bride. A jury in US District Court in Alexandria heard opening statements in the terrorism trial of Indian-origin Mohammed Chhipa, 35, of Springfield, Virginia. Prosecutors say he met several times with an undercover FBI operative who gave him hundreds of dollars on multiple occasions in 2021 and 2022, earmarked for a Syrian woman and Islamic State member known as Umm Dujanah. Also Read | George Soros Row: BJP Says 'Allegations on OCCRP Based on French Media Report, US Should Clarify Stand on Soros'. In his opening statement, prosecutor Andrew Dixon said Chhipa took the money on each occasion, converted it to Bitcoin and sent it to accounts in Turkiye, destined for the Islamic State. Dixon said Chhipa sent more than USD 74,000 in similar fashion to accounts in Turkiye, collecting money from willing donors and funnelling it to the Islamic State through Umm Dujanah. Chhipa was particularly interested in sending funds to help women from the Islamic State escape prison camps to which they had been sent after the terrorist group was routed from territory it held in Iraq and Syria, Dixon said. Also Read | India, Australia CECA Stocktake Visit Concludes in Delhi; Both Nations Affirm Commitment To Realise Benefits of Economic Cooperation (See Pics). Dixon said Chhipa was well aware that what he was doing was illegal, fleeing the country at one point, only to be forced back to the United States. At one point, he said while under surveillance, “I'm not sure why I'm not in prison.” Chhipa's defence attorney, Zachary Deubler, said the FBI had closely scrutinised Chhipa for years, based largely on advocacy of extremist views on social media. But he said the FBI never came up with a reason to arrest him, even after searching his home in 2019 and finding a cache of Islamic State propaganda. Deubler acknowledged that Chhipa left the country, through Latin America with an ultimate goal of getting to Egypt. The FBI met Chhipa when he returned to the US at Dulles International Airport and questioned him about his activities but never arrested him. Deubler said the government's entrapment efforts intensified, to include a fake bride at one point and a supposed Muslim marriage broker at another. “He was a lonely, sad, inflated man who the government tried to set up,” Deubler said. The trial began with several quirks. Chhipa appeared at trial in a green jumpsuit from the Alexandria jail, where he is being held. He said he did not want to wear civilian clothes, which are typically provided to defendants out of concern that jail outfits will prejudice the jury against a defendant. After a morning break, Chhipa's family refused to stand when the clerk said “all rise” as the judge left the bench, and US District Judge David Novak angrily told the family either to stand or be taken into custody. No arrests were made, even though several family members refused repeated directives from court security officers to stand. Last year, after Chhipa's arrest, prosecutors said Chhipa considers himself to be married to Allison Fluke-Ekren, an American from Kansas who is serving a 20-year prison sentence. Fluke-Ekren pleaded guilty last year to organising and leading the Khatiba Nusaybah, a battalion in the Islamic State in which roughly 100 women and girls learned how to use automatic weapons and detonate grenades and suicide belts. Prosecutors, though, say that the marriage was apparently conducted online and has no legal status in the US. They said Chhipa, a naturalised US citizen originally from India, has been trying to adopt Fluke-Ekren's children. The trial is expected to last about a week. (AP) (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)
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Eleven million dollars of federal funds have been released for northern women’s organizations. The announcement was made in Whitehorse on Dec. 8, 2024, by Marci Ien, the federal minister of women and gender equality and youth. The funds are spread across 16 different women’s organizations from Goose Valley, NL, to Prince George, B.C. However, over $5 million of the funds will go to Toronto-based Canadian Women’s Foundation for programming focused on gender equality in the North. Ien was joined by Yukoners Élodie Bernard of Francophone organization Les EssentiElles and Liz Peredun of Yukon Women in Trades and Technology (YWITT). The organizations received $584,070 and $599,096, respectively. Peredun, the executive director of YWITT, said the funding was “a testament to endorsing the belief of what we see as a future in gender equality in the trades and technology sectors in particular.” She said that the organization focuses on supporting women and gender-diverse people working in trades, technology, mining and construction. Peredun said many men had joined to cause to support their coworkers as allies. The funding is going towards a project advocating leadership opportunities for women in the trades, said Peredun. As for Les EssentiElles, the funding they have received will go towards researching the specific issues Francophone women in the North face in economic prosperity and accessing leadership, according to Ien. In French, Bernard said the pan-territorial project aims to profile the experience of women in leadership, to accompany Francophone organizations in addressing questions of gender in their management, and to create round-table with partners in the other territories. According to Ien, the federal gender equality ministry was not receiving applications for funding from Northern women’s organizations. “There was a huge gap. We weren’t seeing people apply. So we came to the people and so basically visited the organizations. We were able to see who was doing what, and then they all applied,” said Ien. Ien said most of the time organizations are too busy to apply for federal funding opportunities, often having to focus on the work at hand. She also said that the department used a grading criteria to decide which organizations recieved funding. “I would say the biggest part is that systemic part: Is this going to help women? Is this going to help them succeed? Is this going to succeed in a way, and I look at, you know, the trades part, where women haven’t succeeded before, is it going to make new inroads? What is going to happen here? Is it viable?” The projects have already begun: Peredun said YWITT started their project in March and Bernard said Les EssentiElles began collecting data for its research in July. The federal ministry also announced just under $1.5 million for three Yukon women’s organizations on Dec. 9, 2024. The money is directed towards projects fighting against gender-based violence. The Yukon Status of Women Council is receiving $560,000, and the Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre is receiving $627,000. According to the press release, the Yukon Women’s Coalition, with Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle acting as fiduciary agent or trustee will receive $299,994 for a project on systemic change in the Yukon. According to Statistics Canada, the rate of intimate partner violence is highest in the North, with a rate of 1,073 victims per 100,000 people. In comparison, the rural south has a rate of 393 per 100,000 and the urban south has a rate of 299 per 100,000. The rate of intimate partner violence in the North has increased by 21 per cent since 2018. In the rural and urban south, rates have increased 17 per cent and 12 per cent, respectively. Contact Talar Stockton at
Fresh plea in SC seeks probe into US indictment of AdaniAt age 32, we’d like to suggest is aging like fine wine. “I don’t know. I’m not a big wine guy,” the Canadiens’ winger said after Friday morning’s practice at the CN Sports Complex in Brossard. “I’m more a beer guy. “There’s been times where I haven’t played good hockey,” Gallagher continued. “There’s been times where I’ve played good hockey and been rewarded. Played poor hockey and got rewarded. Over the course of your career I think it all evens out. You put in the time in the summer, you take care of yourself and put in the work, you hope it pays off. But it’s too early in the year to be thinking like that. I feel confident. I feel comfortable. There’s still areas of my game where I’d like to improve and find ways to contribute a little bit more.” Heading into Saturday night’s Bell Centre match against the Vegas Golden Knights Gallagher has through 19 games. Only Cole Caufield, with 12 goals, has lit the lamp more. Gallagher signed a in October 2020. Perhaps this is just a continuation of last season’s late resurgence, when Gallagher scored five goals and added three assists over Montreal’s final five games, giving him 16 goals and 31 points in 77 contests. The 5-foot-9, 185-pounder has made a career from parking his body in front of the net, and has the bumps and bruises to show for his conviction. He’s now in his 13th season with the Canadiens, is the team’s longest-serving member, and understands better than anyone the rich tradition associated with the organization and its rabid fan base. Gallagher also seems to have found a comfort level with linemates Josh Anderson and Christian Dvorak. “Pucks are just finding a way to go in right now,” Gallagher said. “There’s times when they’re not. That’s why I look at my game in other regards. There’s other things I measure and like to do on the ice. Right now, I feel like I’m doing them and am being rewarded. But there’s times where that hasn’t been the case. “All I’m trying to do is be consistent for my coaches and my teammates. Be relied upon and hopefully be there every night. Every once in a while they go in. Everyone wants to contribute. There’s lots of ways to contribute. You can contribute to a team’s success in a lot of different ways. Sometimes it’s not always recognized or measured.” It certainly hasn’t hurt Gallagher’s cause that he has recovered from his litany of injuries. From the fractured jaw he suffered during the 2020 playoffs — while playing with a tear in his hip — to twice breaking his hand and twice fracturing his ankle, limiting him to 37 games during the 2022-23 season, Gallagher has paid the price for his style of play. In the past, Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis has expressed a desire to have Gallagher re-wire his approach to the game, relying on his experience and acumen to prosper rather than draining his physical energy. If the message has been slow to resonate, St. Louis has no qualms with the veteran’s play, suggesting he has improved his “software.” “It’s never too late,” St. Louis said, making an analogy to new and improved versions of Apple iPhones. “When you improve the software, you have more options. I know Gally’s really good in front of the net, but that’s not all he’s doing now. He’s doing way more. When you’re constantly battling with somebody in front of the net, it takes a toll and you’re probably prone to more injuries when that’s all you’re doing. “He understands ... sometimes it’s his turn to go. But it’s not his only job on the ice. He’s playing the whole game more. I think he’s having fun playing. Obviously he’s getting some results, which makes it fun. But it’s not luck.” The Canadiens will attempt to for the first time this season on Saturday — something they accomplished only once in 2023-24 in late March, defeating Seattle, Colorado and Philadelphia on the road. Montreal has been idle since Monday, while the Golden Knights will be playing their third road game in four nights. “We should come out with some good energy,” St. Louis said. “I think our start is very, very important.” Patrik Laine, recovering from an exhibition game knee injury, practised at full speed with his teammates and didn’t seem affected. He wasn’t made available to the media.
The Broncos waived veteran cornerback Levi Wallace on Tuesday. He had been inactive for the last two weeks. Head coach Sean Payton said the decision to let go of Wallace wasn’t easy and hopes the team can sign him back to the practice squad if he clears waivers. Wallace played in 13 games (two starts), allowing 15 catches for 223 yards, a touchdown and a passer rating of 111.3, according to NFL’s Next Gen Stats. The former Bills and Steelers defensive back last played in when he gave up six catches for 151 yards and a touchdown while filling in for an injured Riley Moss. Following Wallace’s nightmarish performance, Denver . Since Week 15, the former Missouri standout has impressed the coaching staff, allowing three catches for 23 yards on 12 targets. Abrams-Draine recorded his first career interception in . Wallace’s departure could also mean Moss might play Saturday against the Bengals. Moss has been sidelined for the last three games due to an MCL injury he sustained against the Raiders on Nov. 24. After not practicing for two straight weeks, the former Iowa standout was listed as a limited participant for two straight days on the Broncos’ estimated injury report ahead of their trip to Los Angeles. Moss practiced on Tuesday, and Payton previously said in Cincinnati. Wallace signed a one-year deal with the Broncos in the offseason. He competed to be a starter during training camp, but the role was awarded to Moss. Moss, a third-round pick in 2023, has recorded 71 tackles, an interception and eight passes defended in 12 starts. Denver opened the 21-day practice window for running back Tyler Badie, . In the first quarter against New York on the road, Badie was hit directly in the lower side/back area by linebacker Quincy Williams, resulting in a fumble and a Jets recovery. Badie was able to walk to the sideline but soon after went to the ground and eventually found himself lying flat on his back as training staff attended to him. Eventually, the medical staff placed Badie on a stretcher and immobilized him. Badie recorded 11 carries for 86 yards before the injury. Running back Jaleel McLaughlin (quad) also practiced after missing last week’s matchup against Los Angeles. Rookie Blake Watson was promoted to the 53-man roster.
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