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m bmy88 com Through its Smarter Asset Management program, Diversified Energy Company is able to more efficiently produce from its wells and midstream assets, all while ensuring less emissions and improving asset health. Paul Espenan, DEC’s Senior Vice President of Environmental Health, Safety and Regulatory, said that Smarter Asset Management is all about efficient production while reducing emissions, and that’s being done at the company in a variety of ways. For one, he said, the company performs “strategic upgrades” to certain wells, especially those that are under-appreciated, as Diversified does not produce new wells as most producers, but instead acquire and optimize existing energy assets. “What we see a lot of times when we acquire these assets is that others don’t have the appreciation of them that we do in terms of what the opportunity is,” Espenan said. “It’s not necessarily part of their core business, but it is our core business. We have a way of evaluating things that perhaps they overlook or had no intention of even looking at.” DEC Senior Vice President of Upstream Operations and Well Retirement Todd Tetrick said that some operators who owned wells before they were acquired by DEC “lost focus” on operating these wells efficiently, but with the wells now under Diversified Energy’s care, they’re seeing new life. Tetrick continued, “Well pressures and fluid production change throughout the life cycle of the well, and the wells can be very sensitive and require adjustment of the lift mechanisms.” “You can go through the last seven or eight years of Diversified owning these assets and see that we have returned to service literally thousands of wells that our predecessor companies were not producing.” Regardless of if they’re new or mature wells, Tetrick said that a lot goes into efficient oil and gas operations. He said that a key metric in measuring efficient production is “lift cost”, or cost incurred by the company during the production operations of the oil and gas wells. “We can become more efficient by focusing on the expense piece, the production or both,” Tetrick said. “We can decrease our lift costs per unit. That’s the whole goal, to produce our wells efficiently, safely and from an environmentally sustainable perspective.” The environmental impact of oil and gas producing is hugely important to Diversified Energy, and a central tenet of Smarter Asset Management. Espenan said that more than two years ago, the company made what others in the oil and gas industry considered an “odd” decision by equipping every well tender with a handheld device that detects methane leaks. Despite what others thought of the plan, Espenan said it has put DEC ahead of the curve when it comes to detecting and limiting emissions. “In 2023, on a facility basis, we were able to attain a 98% leak-free status,” Espenan said. “We did about 246,000 individual inspections in 2023, and by making those leaks rare, we not only put that gas back in the pipe to sell it, but also reduced our emissions. In 2023, we announced that we hit our emissions goal for 2030 seven years ahead of schedule, and the biggest change was making leaks very rare.” Aside from eliminating emissions at wells, Espenan said that DEC has utilized technology from Bridger Photonics to detect methane emissions from the air by using LiDAR, noting that the company has flown over 22,000 miles of its gathering system and 21,000 miles of production facilities to similarly find and eliminate leaks. Additionally, Espenan said that the company is working with a company called Xplorobot, which is developing an entirely new system to detect methane leaks that, he predicted, will overtake the current common method of finding emissions like DVD overtook VHS. “(Their technology) is going to leapfrog over what has been traditionally called optic gas imaging, which uses a camera, to laser-based imaging,” Espenan said. He added that there are federal regulations about to go into effect that will require oil and gas companies to do things to limit emissions that Diversified Energy has been doing for years voluntarily, and he added that a good deal of what DEC does in the future will still be beyond what’s required by regulators. While environmental impact is a huge part of Smarter Asset Management, so, too, is improving the company’s social impact. Tetrick said that taking into account the hundreds of employees that Diversified Energy Company has across its service area, there is a lot of money going into local economies. Espenan said that whatever DEC can do to improve the communities in which it operates, it wants to do so. “We live, work and participate in the communities around us, and we care what the community has to say about us,” Espenan said. “It’s also, in terms of the outreach we perform, charitable or organizational. We care about our reputation and we want to be that good neighbor, so we’re doing a great deal to reduce our impact and emissions and run our operations in a certain way, because we care about the impact to the public. “Our sustainability report in 2022 won an award mostly because of transparency. We talk in great detail about the things we do in the community. The impact we make financially is a big part of that.”The phenomenal and exceptional rise of Donald Trump is comparable to US exceptionalism itself as his chequered presence and Trumpism of the last ten years can match any Hollywood blockbuster. Exceptionalism is caused by a number of factors. American exceptionalism, with primacy of economics over politics, is both a product of its history and geography. Trump’s rise and consolidation reflects a sea change in the political landscape of a nation that had Life Magazine describe in 1941 the 20th century as “an American century”. This psyche allowed a rank outsider with impressive economic success to occupy the position of the President of the US in 2016 and in 2024. Those who thought 2016 to be a freak event had to concede that Trumpism is a reflection of his support among a majority of voters. In the post Second World War period, the hegemony of the US based order supported by the containment theory was possible due to the decline of the great European powers in general and the exit of Germany in particular. The Soviet led bloc was never a match or a threat to American domination. Richard Nixon confidently declared that the US president was irrelevant for internal governance as the dominant social, economic and racial issues had been resolved perfectly well. Dahl’s theory of polyarchy and Lipset’s attribution that politics has become dull restricting it to decide ‘a nickel here and a nickel there’ aptly summarized this perception. So did the debate on End of Ideology and Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man. But this equilibrium was shattered in the 1990s with the inauguration of the Clinton presidency in 1993. In an upset election, Bill Clinton defeated the incumbent, George H. W. Bush. Ross Perot, the third candidate polled 19 per cent of the popular vote upsetting Bush’s apple cart and also propelling the little-known Democrat Governor of Arkansas, Clinton to the White House. The Clinton Administration’s initiation of NAFTA, an economic union in North America which included Mexico as well, contained grave implications for USA’s internal economic arrangements and concerns for blue-collar workers, the mainstay in a formidable democratic coalition since the New Deal. Perot opposed both NAFTA and the move of shifting the manufacturing base of the US to China. The collapse of communism saw the emergence of a unipolar world. Liberal triumphalism accompanied by extending democracy by force resulted in pushing the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to the borders of the post-Soviet Russian federation. George W. Bush refined the concept after 9/11 by fabricating falsehood in Iraq and elsewhere. He resurrected the Dulles doctrine that one who is not with the US is against it. Advertisement President Barack Obama continued with the major planks of both Clinton and Bush Jr. administrations with no indication of a significant policy shift even after the 2008 financial crash. Sandel blames the Clinton years for deregulation of the financial industry and for doing “little to address growing inequality and the influence of money on politics”. Obama “showed that progressive politics can speak a language of moral and spiritual purpose” but that wasn’t reflected in his presidency. He also appointed the economic advisers who supported financial deregulation during Clinton’s presidency. He bailed out banks without making them accountable and offered little help for ordinary citizens who lost their homes. “All these fuelled popular protest across the political spectrum. On the left, it prompted the Occupy Movement and the candidacy of Bernie Sanders. And on the right, it prompted the Tea Party Movement and the election of Trump”. Cynicism has replaced the approval of inequality due to hard work, innovation and puritan ethics, and the corporatism of the US economy has raised suspicions of an unaccountable deep state machine operating against the majority convincing the latter of minority tyranny. This scenario was further complicated with the spectacular rise of China and its admission to the WTO in 2001. In 2016, Brexit followed by Trump’s surprise victory defeating Hillary Clinton challenged the aforesaid aggressive policy that was pursued vigorously for a quarter century. Hillary’s over-emphasis on identity politics moved the Democratic Party away from the coalition that made it a mainstream majoritarian party after having dismantled the Daley machine in its stormy Chicago Convention held in 1968. The social security and solidarity which was part of the New Deal was pushed to the background. In 2016, the Democratic party found solace in the fact that Trump, like other Republicans Nixon and George W. Bush, had secured victory by electoral college votes and not by popular votes. But that was shattered in 2024. Biden’s victory in 2019 and Trump’s antics after losing the presidency including the 6 January episode in 2020 convinced the Democratic leadership that Trump’s challenge was over and that it has regained its popular support. Trump’s four years at best were an aberration. But the euphoria was short lived as Trump despite fighting his legal battles continued to maintain his presence on the political scene, and clinched the nomination for 2024 presidency. He regained his importance with a formidable presence after effortlessly trouncing all the other Republican aspirants in the primaries. He demonstrated, in a political career of only a decade, that a rank outsider can occupy the pivotal position fighting all odds. Bravery and tenacity are valued attributes in a system that combines the position of a head of the state and that of the government. Biden as president ignored the economic issues that were affecting the overwhelming majority of his supporters. The wages of an American worker remained stagnant while that of his counterpart in China increased four-fold. An average American also perceives that there is no centre of power in Washington with an ability to deal with galloping inflation. While maintaining tariffs imposed by Trump on China there was no visible effect either on revamping manufacturing or on the expected consequent increase in the number of bluecollar workers. Trump reiterated the issues that he raised in his first term, namely revitalizing the manufacturing base of the US, along with the insecurity, isolation and alienation of the working class who lacked a college degree. He rejected the domination of an Ivy League meritocratic urban-based privileged elite that C. Wright Mills theorised in his notion of the power elite in the 1950s, as it has brought in a new caste system with its contempt for a vast under-class in American politics. As a result of all these factors Trump dislodged the Democrats in many predominantly Democratic states and also in the seven swing states to emerge as a leader of reconciliation committed to restoring American pride. (The writers, respectively, are retired Professors of Political Science of the University of Delhi and the Jesus and Mary College) Advertisement

UN watchdog to conduct probe into sexual misconduct allegations against top international prosecutor...and most of them will be possessing this kind of energy. Day for it. Credit: Getty Images A few team changes to also take note of. As reported yesterday, Josh Hazlewood comes into Australia’s XI for Scott Boland . Meanwhile, Ravindra Jadeja gets the nod for India over Ravi Ashwin . Makes sense, with India keen to extend their batting depth. Pace bowler Harshit Rana misses out, with Akash Deep getting his first match of the series. Captain Rohit Sharma is still listed to bat at No.6. Ravindra Jadeja is back in the Indian team. Credit: AP Australia have been sent in at the Gabba. Had a feeling that might be the case. India’s third toss they’ve won in a row. Here are the numbers at the Gabba. The numbers show Australia’s winning record is at its worst when they’re sent in here. Rohit Sharma called heads at the toss. It is heads. And so India will bowl first, taking advantage of what appear to be excellent bowling conditions. Here’s what he had to say just now on Seven: A little bit overcast, bit of grass and looks soft. We want to try to make the best use of the conditions and see what we can do with the ball up front. Both teams have played good cricket in the last two Test matches. So obviously, a big one here for us. We have been playing good cricket but it is important we understand there are times in the game where we ahve to capture those moments and we failed to do that in the last game, which is why we didn’t win the game. We want to try and change that and play well here. Rohit Sharma and his Indian side were comprehensively outplayed in Adelaide. Credit: AP Josh Hazlewood has pushed out Scott Boland for the crucial Gabba Test against India after missing just one game with a side strain, as Australian captain Pat Cummins plots a possible bumper barrage for Rishabh Pant and India’s tail. Short bowling in Adelaide allowed the Australians to knock over India’s lower order cheaply in both innings, and tellingly provided the first signs of vulnerability in Rishabh’s otherwise irrepressible and aggressive batting method. It was here at the Gabba in 2021 where Rishabh humbled Cummins, Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc in a virtuoso performance to deliver India both the match and the series. But his first innings dismissal in Adelaide, to a snorting short ball from Cummins, created a previously unseen element of doubt in the left-hander’s mind – he was then a little hesitant coming forward to Starc in the second innings and edged one to Steve Smith in the slips. Read the rest of Dan Brettig’s piece here . Josh Hazlewood has proven his fitness to the selectors and will play at the Gabba. Credit: Getty Images G’day everyone and welcome to our live coverage of the third Test between Australia and India at the Gabba in Brisbane. I’m Vince Rugari , and I’m very much looking forward to this. The series is locked at 1-1 after Perth and Adelaide, each side taking a comprehensive win thus far. You could make a case for any result here. This Test looks like it could be the hinge point of the series - although a lot will depend on the weather. Typical of this time of year in south-east Queensland, afternoon storms are always a threat. That’ll mean occasional interruptions to play, probably, but also classic swing-bowling conditions on what appears to be the usual green-top wicket in Woollongabba - which makes the toss so important. And that’s happening in just a few minutes. I’m taking this in from the Ashfield bureau. Dan Brettig and Tom Decent are in Brisbane and will chime in with regular updates from the ground. Play begins at 11.20am AEDT, or an hour earlier up there.

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Prices for gallium — a metal used in semiconductors and advanced technology — jumped to their highest level since 2011 following export restrictions recently imposed by China. Gallium prices assessed by Fastmarkets rose to $595 per kilogram on Friday, a 17% increase over the previous level on Dec. 11. The critical mineral has moved higher after China banned exports of several metals to the US earlier this month, a sign of rising trade tensions between the two countries. China accounted for 98% of global gallium production in 2023, according to the US Geological Survey. While the market for gallium is relatively small, it has important applications in compound semiconductors, which combine multiple elements to improve transmission speed and efficiency. It’s also needed for TV and phone screens, solar panels and radar equipment. Beijing had already placed initial controls on exports of the material in August 2023, driving prices higher and upending trade flows. Gallium prices have more than doubled since the curbs were announced earlier last year, according to Bloomberg calculations from Fastmarkets data. (By Jack Ryan) Read More: China’s trade reprisals may extend to minerals like rare earths

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Mocha Mousse MomentsIsraeli drone strikes hit Kamal Adwan Hospital on Tuesday, wounding three medical staff at one of the few hospitals still partially operating in the northernmost part of Gaza , the facility’s director said. Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya said the drones were dropping bombs, spraying shrapnel at the hospital. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. In Lebanon, a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has held despite Israeli forces carrying out several new drone and artillery strikes on Tuesday, killing a shepherd in the country's south. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed keep striking “with an iron fist” against perceived Hezbollah violations of the ceasefire. Hezbollah began launching rockets, drones and missiles into Israel last year in solidarity with Hamas militants who are fighting in the Gaza Strip. The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 people hostage . Israel’s blistering retaliatory offensive has killed at least 44,500 Palestinians , more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were combatants. Israel says it has killed over 17,000 militants, without providing evidence. The war in Gaza has destroyed vast areas of the coastal enclave and displaced 90% of the population of 2.3 million, often multiple times . Here's the Latest: WASHINGTON — U.S. forces conducted a self-defense strike Tuesday in the vicinity of Mission Support Site Euphrates, a U.S. base in eastern Syria, against three truck-mounted multiple rocket launchers, a T-64 tank and mortars that Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said presented “a clear and imminent threat” to U.S. troops. The self-defense strike occurred after rockets and mortars were fired that landed in the vicinity of the base, Ryder said. The Pentagon is still assessing who was responsible for the attacks — that there are both Iranian-backed militias and Syrian military forces that operate in the area. Ryder said the attack was not connected to the offensive that is ongoing in Aleppo, where Syrian jihadi-led rebels taken over the country’s largest city. The U.S. has about 900 troops in Syria to conduct missions to counter the Islamic Stage group. CAIRO — Israeli drone strikes hit the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza on Tuesday, wounding three medical personnel, the facility’s director said. Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya said the drones were dropping bombs, spraying shrapnel at the hospital, located in the town of Beit Lahiya. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. In comments released by Gaza’s Health Ministry, Abu Safiya said one of the injured was in critical condition and was undergoing a complex surgery. “The situation has become extremely dangerous,” he said. “We are exhausted by the ongoing violence and atrocities.” Kamal Adwan Hospital has been struck multiple times over the past two months as Israeli forces have waged a fierce offensive in the area, saying they are rooting out Hamas militants who regrouped there. In October, Israeli forces raided the hospital, saying that militants were sheltering inside and arrested a number of people, including some staff. Hospital officials denied the claim. Abu Safiya was wounded in his thigh and back by an Israeli drone strike on the hospital last month. TEL AVIV, Israel — An Israeli court has ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take the stand next week in his long-running corruption trial, ending a long series of delays. Netanyahu’s lawyers had filed multiple requests to put off the testimony, arguing first that the war in Gaza prevented him from properly preparing for his testimony, and later that his security could not be guaranteed in the court chamber. In Tuesday’s decision, judges in the Jerusalem district court said that following a security assessment, his testimony will be moved to the Tel Aviv district court. Israeli media said the session would take place in an underground chamber. His testimony in the trial, which began in 2020, is expected to begin on Dec. 10 and to last at least several weeks. Netanyahu is charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate scandals involving powerful media moguls and wealthy associates. He denies wrongdoing. NABATIYEH, Lebanon — In destroyed areas of southern Lebanon, residents clearing away rubble on Tuesday said they didn’t trust Israel to abide by the week-old ceasefire with Hezbollah. “The Israelis are breaching the ceasefire whenever they can because they are not committed,” said Hussein Badreddin, a vegetable seller in the southern city of Nabatiyeh, which was pummeled by Israeli airstrikes over several weeks. “This means that they (can) breach any resolution at any time.” Since it began last Wednesday, the U.S.- and French-brokered 60-day ceasefire has been rattled by near daily Israeli strikes, although Israel has been vague about the purported Hezbollah violations that prompted them. Imad Yassin, a trader who owns a clothing shop in Nabatiyeh, said Israel was constantly breaching the ceasefire because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to continue the displacement of residents of southern Lebanon. “The Israeli enemy was defeated and the truth is that he is trying to get revenge. Netanyahu is trying to displace us as citizens of southern Lebanon,” Yassin said. They spoke as bulldozers cleared streets strewn with rubble and debris from destroyed buildings. Electricians worked to fix power lines in an effort to restore electricity to the city. Both men were displaced by the war and returned to Nabatiyeh on Wednesday, the day the ceasefire went into effect. Yassin found his clothing shop had been destroyed. He said he would wait to see if the state will dispense compensation funds so that he can repair and reopen his business. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Two separate Israeli airstrikes killed at least nine people in Gaza City on Tuesday, Palestinian medical authorities said. Six people, including two children, who were killed when an Israeli strike hit a school sheltering displaced people Tuesday afternoon in the Zaytoun neighborhood, according to the Health Ministry’s emergency services. A second strike hit a residential building in the Sabra neighborhood, killing at least three people, the services said. Israeli forces have almost completely isolated northernmost Gaza since early October, saying they’re fighting regrouped Hamas militants there. That has pushed some families south to Gaza City, while hundreds of thousands more live in the territory's center and south in squalid tent camps, where they rely on international aid. JERUSALEM — Israel's military confirmed it killed a senior member of Hezbollah responsible for coordinating with Syria's army on rearming and resupplying the Lebanese militant group. Syrian state media said a drone strike on Tuesday hit a car in a suburb of the capital Damascus, killing one person, without saying who was killed. Israel's military said he was Salman Nemer Jomaa, describing him as “Hezbollah’s representative to the Syrian military,” and that killing him “degrades both Hezbollah’s presence in Syria and Hezbollah’s ongoing force-building efforts.” Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of war-torn Syria in recent years. Israel rarely acknowledges its actions in Syria, but it has said that it targets bases of Iran-allied militant groups. Iran supports both Hezbollah and the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad, which is currently fighting to push back jihadi-led insurgents who seized the country’s largest city of Aleppo . TUBAS, West Bank — Israeli soldiers opened fire inside a hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday during a raid to seize the bodies of alleged militants targeted in earlier airstrikes, a Palestinian doctor working at the hospital told The Associated Press. Soldiers entered the Turkish Hospital complex in Tubas after the bodies of two Palestinians killed and one wounded in airstrikes in the northern West Bank on Tuesday were brought there, said Dr. Mahmoud Ghanam, who works in the hospital’s emergency department. The troops briefly handcuffed and arrested Ghanam and another doctor. “The army entered in a brutal way, and they were shooting inside the emergency department,” said Ghanam. “They handcuffed us and took me and my colleague.” The military confirmed that its troops were operating around the hospital searching for those targeted in the airstrikes, which they said had hit a militant cell near the Palestinian town of Al-Aqaba in the Jordan Valley. It denied that troops had entered the hospital building or fired gunshots inside. The soldiers left after learning that the wounded man had been transferred to another hospital, Ghanam said. The soldiers wanted to take the bodies of the two men killed in the strike, but the hospital’s manager refused to hand over the bodies, Ghanam said. Israeli raids on hospitals in the West Bank are rare but have grown more common since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. In Gaza, Israeli troops have systematically besieged, raided and damaged many hospitals. About 800 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack out of Gaza ignited the war there. Israel has carried out near-daily military raids in the West Bank that it says are aimed at preventing attacks on Israelis — attacks which have also been on the rise. Israel captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians seek all three territories for an independent state. CAIRO — Palestinian officials say Fatah and Hamas are closing in on an agreement to appoint a committee of politically independent technocrats to administer the Gaza Strip after the war . It would effectively end Hamas’ rule and could help advance ceasefire talks with Israel. The rival factions have made several failed attempts to reconcile since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007. Israel has meanwhile ruled out any postwar role in Gaza for either Hamas or Fatah, which dominates the Western-backed Palestinian Authority . A Palestinian Authority official on Tuesday confirmed that a preliminary agreement had been reached following weeks of negotiations in Cairo. The official said the committee would have 12-15 members, most of them from Gaza. It would report to the Palestinian Authority, which is headquartered in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and work with local and international parties to facilitate humanitarian assistance and reconstruction. A Hamas official said that Hamas and Fatah had agreed on the general terms but were still negotiating over some details and the individuals who would serve on the committee. The official said an agreement would be announced after a meeting of all Palestinian factions in Cairo, without providing a timeline. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media on the talks. There was no immediate comment from Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the war until Hamas is dismantled and scores of hostages are returned. He says Israel will maintain open-ended security control over Gaza , with civilian affairs administered by local Palestinians unaffiliated with the Palestinian Authority or Hamas. No Palestinians have publicly volunteered for such a role, and Hamas has threatened anyone who cooperates with the Israeli military. The United States has called for a revitalized Palestinian Authority to govern both the West Bank and Gaza ahead of eventual statehood. The Israeli government is opposed to Palestinian statehood. Associated Press writers Samy Magdy in Cairo and Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed. NUSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip — Palestinians lined up for bags of flour distributed by the U.N. in central Gaza on Tuesday morning, some of them for the first time in months amid a drop in food aid entering the territory. The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, gave out one 25-kilogram flour bag (55 pounds) to each family of 10 at a warehouse in the Nuseirat refugee camp, as well as further south in the city of Khan Younis. Jalal al-Shaer, among the dozens receiving flour at the Nuseirat warehouse, said the bag would last his family of 12 for only two or three days. “The situation for us is very difficult,” said another man in line, Hammad Moawad. “There is no flour, there is no food, prices are high ... We eat bread crumbs.” He said his family hadn’t received a flour allotment in five or six months. COGAT, the Israeli army body in charge of humanitarian affairs, said it facilitated entry of a shipment of 600 tons of flour on Sunday for the World Food Program. Still, the amount of aid Israel has allowed into Gaza since the beginning of October has been at nearly the lowest levels of the 15-month-old war. UNRWA’s senior emergency officer Louise Wateridge told The Associated Press that the flour bags being distributed Tuesday were not enough. “People are getting one bag of flour between an entire family and there is no certainty when they’ll receive the next food,” she said. Wateridge added that UNRWA has been struggling like other humanitarian agencies to provide much needed supplies across the Gaza Strip. The agency this week announced it was stopping delivering aid entering through the main crossing from Israel, Kerem Shalom, because its convoys were being robbed by gangs. UNRWA has blamed Israel in large part for the spread of lawlessness in Gaza. The International Criminal Court is seeking to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over accusations of using “starvation as a method of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid into Gaza. Israel rejects the allegations and says it has been working hard to improve entry of aid. JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the war isn't over against Hezbollah and vowed to use "an iron fist" against the Lebanese militant group for any perceived violations of a week-old ceasefire. “At the moment we are in a ceasefire, I note — a ceasefire, not the end of the war," Netanyahu said at the start of the government meeting Tuesday. He said the military would retaliate for “any violation — minor or major.” Netanyahu also thanked U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for his recent demands for Hamas to release the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza. Trump posted on social media Monday that if the hostages are not freed before he takes office in January there would be “HELL TO PAY.” Netanyahu convened Tuesday's meeting in northern Israel, where around 45,000 Israelis had been displaced by the war as of last week, according to the prime minister’s office. Netanyahu said the government was focused on getting them back in their homes and rehabilitating the area. BERLIN — German authorities have arrested a Lebanese man accused of being a member of Hezbollah and working for groups controlled by the militant organization in Germany. Federal prosecutors said the suspect, identified only as Fadel R. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in the Hannover region on Tuesday. The man is suspected of membership in a foreign terrorist organization and is not accused of direct involvement in any violence. Prosecutors said he joined Hezbollah in the summer of 2008 or earlier and took part in leadership training courses in Lebanon. From 2009, he allegedly had leadership duties in two groups controlled by Hezbollah in the Hannover area, organizing appearances by preachers close to the militants. According to prosecutors, he was briefly a correspondent for a Hezbollah media outlet in 2017 and was tasked with coordinating building work at a mosque. Germany is a staunch ally of Israel. It is also home to a Lebanese immigrant community of more than 100,000. BEIRUT — The Lebanese army is looking for more recruits as it beefs up its presence in southern Lebanon after the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire. Lebanon’s army is a respected national institution that kept to the sidelines during the nearly 14-month conflict. During an initial 60-day truce, thousands of Lebanese troops are supposed to deploy in southern Lebanon, where U.N. peacekeepers also have a presence. Hezbollah militants are to pull back from areas near the border as Israel withdraws its ground forces. The army said those interested in joining up have a one-month period to apply, starting Tuesday. The Lebanese army has about 80,000 troops, with around 5,000 of them deployed in the south. DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s state news agency says a drone strike hit a car in a suburb of the capital, Damascus, killing one person. The agency did not give further details or say who was killed. It said the attack occurred Tuesday on the road leading to the Damascus International Airport south of the city. The area is known to be home to members of Iran-backed militant groups. Israel is believed to have carried out a number of strikes in the area in recent months as it has battled Iran-backed Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon. Israeli officials rarely acknowledge such strikes. JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister warned that if the shaky ceasefire with Hezbollah collapses, Israel will widen its strikes and target the Lebanese state itself. He spoke the day after Israel carried out a wave of airstrikes that killed nearly a dozen people. Those strikes came after the Lebanese militant group fired a volley of projectiles as a warning over what it said were previous Israeli violations. Speaking to troops on the northern border Tuesday, Defense Minister Israel Katz said any violations of the agreement would be met with “a maximum response and zero tolerance.” He said if the war resumes, Israel will widen its strikes beyond the areas where Hezbollah’s activities are concentrated, and “there will no longer be an exemption for the state of Lebanon.” During the 14-month conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which came to an end last week with a ceasefire brokered by the United States and France, Israel largely refrained from striking critical infrastructure or the Lebanese armed forces, who kept to the sidelines . When Israeli strikes killed or wounded Lebanese soldiers, the Israeli military said it was accidental . The ceasefire agreement that took effect last week gives 60 days for Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and for Hezbollah militants to relocate north of the Litani River. The buffer zone is to be patrolled by Lebanese armed forces and U.N. peacekeepers. Israel has carried out multiple strikes in recent days in response to what it says are violations by Hezbollah. Lebanon’s parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, accused Israel of violating the truce more than 50 times in recent days by launching airstrikes, demolishing homes near the border and violating Lebanon’s airspace. Berri, a Hezbollah ally, had helped mediate the ceasefire. JERUSALEM — Palestinian officials say an Israeli airstrike in the northern West Bank has killed two Palestinians. Israel’s military said it struck a militant cell near the town of Al-Aqaba, in the Jordan Valley. It did not immediately give more details. The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the two deaths and said a third person was moderately wounded. About 800 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack out of Gaza ignited the war there. Israel has carried out near-daily military raids in the West Bank that it says are aimed at preventing attacks on Israelis, which have also been on the rise. Israel captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three territories for an independent state. BEIRUT — Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon made his first public appearance in Beirut since he was wounded in an attack involving exploding pagers in mid-September. Mojtaba Amani, who returned to Lebanon over the weekend after undergoing treatment in Iran, visited on Tuesday the scene south of Beirut where Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sept. 27. Speaking about the airstrike that destroyed six buildings and killed Nasrallah and others, Amani said Israel should get for its act “the highest medal for sabotage, terrorism, blood and killing civilians.” Amani suffered serious injuries in his face and hands when a pager he was holding exploded in mid-September. The device was one of about 3,000 pagers that exploded simultaneously, killing and wounding many Hezbollah members. A day after the pager attack, a similar attack struck walkie-talkies. In total, the explosions killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 3,000, many of them civilians. Last month, a spokesperson for the office of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the pager attack was approved by Netanyahu.

Article content The man known as “Canadian Dave” has been missing in Kabul for more than three weeks. Recommended Videos There is no confirmation if he is alive, a captive, jailed or in hospital? All his friends, family and peers can do is hope for the best after Dave Lavery vanished in Kabul on Nov. 11, Remembrance Day. They hope he’s still with us. They believe he is. But there is nothing confirmed from either Canada or Afghanistan. The Taliban hold all the cards. Canada holds none. The whereabouts and status of this Canadian hero to so many who escaped from Afghanistan remains a mystery. “We have nothing to add to our previous statement,” said Global Affairs Canadan (GAC). Keeping their cards close, Canadian government officials have previously only acknowledged the former Canadian special operations soldier — now a civilian exfiltration expert — disappeared near the same Kabul airport where he helped more than 100 Afghans escape to Canada during the 2021 fall of Afghanistan. He also assisted hundreds of others from other countries. “The Government of Canada’s first priority is always the safety and security of its citizens,” said GAC spokesperson Charlotte MacLeod. “For this reason, in addition to privacy considerations, we will not comment on or release any information on specific cases. Doing so may compromise ongoing efforts or endanger the safety of Canadians.” There has been no sign of the Canadian some call the “Angel of Afghanistan” since the day he vanished. If anybody in authority has any information on him, they are not sharing it. Recommended video But sources told The Toronto Sun they believe Lavery is alive, and being held by the Taliban somewhere in Kabul. “I was given assurances that he is alive and well and being taken care of,” said, Chris Ecklunda, a philanthropist and president of Canadian Process Serving Inc. “We can only hope that is true.” If this a kidnapping and ransom situation, no one is saying. The whereabouts of Lavery’s wife and son are also not known. The question is what happens next? And what to do next? “We need to pressure Global Affairs Canada and the rest of the government into action or this will linger,” said a friend who worked with Lavery in Afghanistan and is a noted expert on the Taliban. “Winter is coming to Kabul — the people are starving. But realistically, the Taliban could care less about Canada and what we have to offer. My suspicion is that they’re rounding up foreigners as a reaction to the recent election (in the U.S.) — in order to build up stock to trade once Trump comes into office.” The good news in that is that Lavery should be kept alive. However, it’s unclear who would negotiate his release and what the Taliban would want in exchange. And Ecklunda said there is also more bad news for Afghan people because the project he has been working on — to build a new school and send over supplies — is on hold until the Lavery situation is resolved. Sometimes these things work out well, and sometimes they don’t. I have covered numerous Canadians who have been detained abroad, including the two Michaels — Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor — who were released after spending more than 1,000 days in Chinese custody. In the case of the Michaels, we had a happy homecoming story. But they all don’t end up that way. For example, Robert Hall and John Ridsdel were kidnapped in 2016 by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines and later murdered. It’s a reminder of what a dangerous game this is. Patience is key. “There are good people working on it,” said retired general Dean Milner. “It’s important that we do because Dave Lavery has served this country with distinction for a long time.” While it’s true, no one is quite sure of Canadian Dave’s whereabouts or offered any proof that he is alive. Another truth: He is not forgotten.

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Jewish community members are gathering in solidarity following the firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue as the incident continues to fuel political division. or signup to continue reading More than a thousand community members were expected to meet at an undisclosed location in Ripponlea to "stand against hate" on Sunday. The rally will finish with flowers being laid at the synagogue. "This rally is a moment to unite, reflect and reaffirm our shared commitment to resilience and togetherness in our community," organisers J-United said. Cabinet minister Murray Watt described Friday's attack as an "absolutely horrific anti-Semitic attack" before alleging Opposition Leader Peter Dutton had politicised the incident. Mr Watt also refuted Mr Dutton's claims that the government had made Australia less safe for Jewish people and that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had not done enough to address anti-Semitism. The political debate was largely ignited by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who on Saturday condemned the synagogue attack and linked it to Australia's decision to support a non-binding UN General Assembly resolution. Australia is one of 157 countries, including the UK, Canada and New Zealand urging Israel to end its presence in Palestine. The Australian Palestine Advocacy Network says any attack on a place of worship is an unacceptable act of hate but has accused Mr Netanyahu of deliberately sow division. Although not part of the Adass Israel congregation, Caulfield resident Hallely Kimchi said it was time for more to be done to protect Jewish people. "It is not about Israel. It's about Jews in Melbourne - forget about Israel at the moment," she said as the rally was getting under way. "There are people that have been abused and have never been to Israel. "Jews living in Melbourne should feel safe and proud to do whatever they want and to work without being doxxed or boycotted." The synagogue remains closed to the public after it was set alight by two masked men in what police have described as a targeted attack. Two of its three buildings were gutted and two congregants who were inside at the time preparing for morning prayers were evacuated, one suffering minor injuries. Police have confirmed they are also investigating reports of a bullet found on a footpath near the Synagogue in Glen Eira Road on Saturday afternoon. Community members laid flowers outside a makeshift memorial outside the Synagogue on Sunday morning. The attack on a place of worship, which was built by Holocaust survivors, has led to a heightened sense of fear in the community, Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Daniel Aghion said. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan confirmed increased police patrols to bolster safety into the coming week and pledged $100,000 towards rebuilding. Despite condemning the attack, she is not expected to attend Sunday's rally. The incident has meanwhile prompted NSW to consider new laws to better protect religious freedoms. Premier Chris Minns said he would consider reforms to laws regulating protests outside religious institutions. A pro-Palestine rally is also planned outside the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne CBD on Sunday that will end with a march through the CBD. DAILY Today's top stories curated by our news team. WEEKDAYS Grab a quick bite of today's latest news from around the region and the nation. WEEKLY The latest news, results & expert analysis. WEEKDAYS Catch up on the news of the day and unwind with great reading for your evening. WEEKLY Get the editor's insights: what's happening & why it matters. WEEKLY Love footy? We've got all the action covered. WEEKLY Every Saturday and Tuesday, explore destinations deals, tips & travel writing to transport you around the globe. WEEKLY Going out or staying in? Find out what's on. WEEKDAYS Sharp. Close to the ground. Digging deep. Your weekday morning newsletter on national affairs, politics and more. TWICE WEEKLY Your essential national news digest: all the big issues on Wednesday and great reading every Saturday. WEEKLY Get news, reviews and expert insights every Thursday from CarExpert, ACM's exclusive motoring partner. TWICE WEEKLY Get real, Australia! Let the ACM network's editors and journalists bring you news and views from all over. AS IT HAPPENS Be the first to know when news breaks. DAILY Your digital replica of Today's Paper. Ready to read from 5am! DAILY Test your skills with interactive crosswords, sudoku & trivia. Fresh daily! Advertisement Advertisement

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