Habib Siddiqui

 T he United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency session over the killing of Hamas political bureau leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital Tehran on Wednesday, Russia said. The meeting, requested by Iran and supported by representatives of Russia, China and Algeria, is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. (2000 GMT), said a spokesman for the Russian presidency, which holds the rotating leadership of the council. Iran's permanent mission to the U.N. on Wednesday called for an urgent meeting of the UNSC. A letter was sent to Vassily Nebenzia, the permanent representative of Russia and the current president of the U.N. Security Council, and described the killing of Haniyeh as a "terrorist attack and an act of aggression on the sovereignty and territory." In the letter, Iran strongly condemned the "aggressive action of the Zionist regime" in the assassination of Haniyeh, characterizing the "terrorist act" as part of the assassinations of Palestinian re...

 BBC Israel has inflicted two devastating blows on its enemies. It has not confirmed that it  killed the Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh  in Tehran, but it is hard to see who else would have wanted him dead more than the Israelis. As for the Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr,  Israel says he was killed  in Beirut in an “intelligence-based elimination”. For Israel, everyone senior in Hamas is a legitimate target after the attacks of 7 October 2023, which inflicted the worst single day of bloodshed on Israel since independence in 1948. Fuad Shukr, Israel says, was killed because as a veteran Hezbollah commander he was responsible for the rocket attack that killed 12 children and young people in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Hezbollah has confirmed he was killed in the raid on Beirut. It denies carrying out the attack in the Golan. Once again, the Middle East is full of speculation that the all-out war feared since 7 October is imminent. The deadly irony i...

  Monsters of Histroy Defy Truth, Justice, Sanctity of Life and Earth Horrors of insanity and Israeli war continued to plague the entire Arab region and people of Gaza and Palestine are being subjected to planned crimes against humanity and genocide without any global challenge to the catastrophic atrocities. Since May, the bogus Three-Phase so called Israeli formula for a ceasefire remains a puzzle to rational understanding. The US and Israel are forging it to ensure killing of people of Gaza and allowing new settlements by settlers to strengthen Israeli command over the West Bank and to put a finished answer to the Palestine freedom movement. All monsters of history claimed good intentions and righteous ambitions but inflicted horrors, deaths and destruction on fellow human beings to achieve individualistic ambitions of power and glory. PM Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress (July 24, 24) was no big surprise to global viewers as he acts like a despotic king for his own politi...

  Should Government Employees be allowed to Join RSS?   Ram Puniyani   RSS is the biggest organization in the World. It aims at working for Hindu Rashtra and also claims that it is a  Cultural Organization . It is as such striving for Nationalism (Hindu)’ contrary to the one underlined in our Constitution, Indian Nationalism. It regards Hindus as a Nation and so it has set its goal. Times and over again one or the other top leader of BJP voices the demand for scrapping the Indian Constitution and proclaiming that we should become a Hindu Rashtra. RSS Sarsanghchalak K. Sudarshan himself had  stated  this when became chief of RSS in 2000. Prior to 2024 elections BJP President J.P. Nadda stated that now BJP is more capable and does not need RSS support for its electoral campaign  which  was the norm in previous elections. What does the pledge and prayer of RSS tell about its goal? Its role in shaping BJP, its political progeny, can easily b...

  A boycott sparked by the war in Gaza helped contribute to McDonald’s first quarterly decline in same-store sales since the COVID outbreak in early 2020.  To read more: click  McDonald’s CEO says Muslims’ Gaza boycott hurt quarterly sales | Fortune On Monday, the fast-food company known for its hamburgers and french fries reported a 1% decline in revenue across all its businesses. But the company pinned the blame on disproportionately lower demand abroad and especially in France, Europe’s third-largest economy behind Germany and the U.K.  Answering an analyst question during an investor call, CEO Chris Kempczinski addressed concerns over specific regional weakness cited in its earnings report. While China suffered from overall weak consumer sentiment, for example, France was more complicated, in his view. He cited three issues that needed to be tackled to claw back share: The first was an aggressive rival that was competing on price. The second was the return of the...

  BANGKOK -- The Arakan Army (AA), an armed ethnic group in Myanmar, is taking advantage of the monsoon rains sweeping across the country to intensify its offensive against the military regime's troops in Rakhine state, located along the country's western coast and bordering Bangladesh. The AA attributes its tightening its grip on the muddy, rugged terrain, following battle plans using both guerilla tactics typically favored by rebel armies and conventional military operations -- as it targets long-held military outposts, border camps and heavily fortified operational commands that have been pivotal for the military regime to assert its authority. "We are mainly deploying insurgent tactics, in combination with some characteristics of conventional warfare," the media team of the AA and its political wing, the United League of Arakan (ULA), told Nikkei Asia in an exclusive interview from its headquarters on condition that it be identified only with its initials, AA and ...