ISRAEL - Hamas has crossed lines that can never be uncrossed, and they have nobody to blame but themselves for what is about to happen. Throughout human history, it has always been acceptable for soldiers to attack other soldiers. But when they launched their surprise attack against Israel, Hamas showed no restraint whatsoever. Even though they knew that the whole world would be watching, they mercilessly killed and abused women, children and the elderly. And now footage has been released of them beheading captives. From this point forward, Hamas will be considered the moral equivalent of ISIS, and that is because they have behaved just like ISIS did. There is a code of honor that all combatants are supposed to abide by everywhere in the world. When a battle is raging, women and children are supposed to be left out of it. But Hamas had no interest in following such rules.

AFGHANISTAN - The death toll from the earthquake that struck Afghanistan on Saturday has risen to 2,445 while more than 9,200 people have been injured, the Xinhua news agency has reported. According to the outlet, 13 villages in the Zanda Jan district of Herat have been completely wiped out and many victims remain trapped under the rubble. Afghan national and provincial authorities have deployed around a dozen rescue teams to assist the victims, the outlet reported. However, it added that a lack of equipment has forced local residents and rescuers to dig with their bare hands in search of survivors or bodies. The Afghan director for Save the Children, Arshad Malik, described the scale of the damage as horrific. “The numbers affected by this tragedy are truly disturbing – and those numbers will rise as people are still trapped in the rubble of their homes in Herat,” said Malik, as he called for an “urgent injection” of funds from the international community.

ISRAEL - The war has threatened to draw in surrounding territories after shells were fired from Syria and Lebanon into Israel and Israel shelled the only land exit from Gaza into Egypt - shortly after an Israeli military spokesperson told civilians to flee through it. Israeli troops are gathering on the border of the Gaza Strip, which has a population of more than two million, prompting questions over whether the country is preparing to mount a ground offensive against Hamas in the occupied Palestinian territory.

ISRAEL - Hezbollah, largely seen as a proxy of Iran, has attacked Israel several times since Hamas launched a massive terrorist attack on Saturday. Tel Aviv is likely bracing for a war fought on multiple fronts that could further destabilize the region. Israel is preparing for a multi-front war as the country’s enemies seek to capitalize on Hamas’s gruesome terrorist attack, an analyst told Daily Express US. Geopolitics expert Kervin AuCoin said the attack showed all the hallmarks of being planned by Iran, which has long called for Israel’s destruction. He said: “Iran continues to use proxy forces like Hamas to carry out attacks on various locations. This attack is no different. It has all the signs of Iran’s typical coordinated attacks. The fact that it was carried out on multiple fronts with such precision and the surprising nature of the attack gives credence to recent reporting that Iran was behind the attack.”

ISRAEL - According to Israeli Defence Force's Major General Itai Veruv, some 70 Hamas terrorists wielding guns and grenades stormed the quiet Kfar Aza kibbutz. Hamas fanatics 'slaughtered 40 babies and children with some beheaded', Israeli forces have claimed. The attackers, alleged Israeli forces, beheaded babies and gunned down entire families in their homes. "It's not a war. It's not a battlefield. It's a massacre," said Major General Veruv. The Israeli troops, accompanied by foreign press, walked through the village on Tuesday, encountering a devastating scene of burned-out houses, strewn furniture, and torched cars.

ISRAEL - Mahmoud al-Zahar issued the horrifying warning in a video as Hamas threatens to take its barbarism to devastating levels. A senior Hamas commander chillingly warned his savage terrorist group sees the domination of Israel as just the start, with the barbarians threatening to execute Israeli hostages — including toddlers. Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades - the terrorist group’s military arm - has now chillingly it warned would begin killing their hostages if the Israeli government continues bombing Palestinian lands. A spokesman said: "Any targeting of innocent civilians without warning will be met regretfully by executing one of the captives in our custody, and we will be forced to broadcast this execution.

ISRAEL - Hamas terrorists have been sent a huge warning by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who compared them to ISIS. Hamas terrorists "bound, burned and executed children" as the barbarians killed innocent hostages one by one and filmed their executions, it has been reported. Benjamin Netanyahu made a short video statement that has been shared on X (formerly Twitter) by the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel. He warned that by attacking Israel, Hamas has "made a mistake of historic proportions" and "we will exact a price that will be remembered by them and Israel’s other enemies for decades to come".

RUSSIA - Vladimir Putin suggested he will revoke a nuclear treaty sending tensions rising around the world with Russia poised to test a weapon of mass destruction. Vladimir Putin’s government is set to rip up a key treaty in a move sure to escalate nuclear tensions with the West. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation verifies that nuclear-armed nations are adhering to a ban on testing weapons of mass destruction. It has been ratified by Russia but as of yesterday lawmakers in Moscow were given 10 days to find the best way to revoke the treaty.

GERMANY - The anti-immigration Alternative for Deutschland achieved its best-ever election results in a western German state. Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), said on Monday that the results of recent state elections show that the party has “arrived” as a mainstream political force in the EU country after winning its highest-ever share of the vote in a western German state.

ISRAEL - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday to "change the Middle East" in Israel's war with Palestinian militant group Hamas, as the army pounded the Gaza Strip with air strikes. "What Hamas will experience will be difficult and terrible... we are going to change the Middle East," Netanyahu told officials visiting Jerusalem from the country's south, where Hamas militants carried out a surprise attack on Saturday morning. "This is only the beginning... we are all with you and we will defeat them with force, enormous force."

GERMANY - Alice Weidel, head of the German right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD), was euphoric as she stood on stage on Sunday night together with Robert Lambrou, her party’s lead candidate in the Hesse state election. "We're on the right track!" she called out to supporters. And her party's results over the weekend were a milestone. On Sunday, voters in two German states went to the polls in regional elections. In both Hesse and Bavaria, the extreme right-wing party made significant gains, coming in second place, with 18.4 percent of the vote, in Hesse and in third, with 14.6 percent, in Bavaria.

UNITED NATIONS - Russia and China argued for a genuine peace process in the Middle East at a Sunday emergency session of the UN Security Council meant to discuss the recent attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel, the worst the country has seen in decades. “My message is: It’s important to stop the fighting immediately, to go to a ceasefire and to meaningful negotiations, which were stalled for decades,” Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian permanent representative to the international body, told journalists. Nebenzia stressed that Russia condemned all attacks on civilians. Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun voiced a similar position ahead of the meeting, urging the world “to come back to the two-state solution.” The Security Council, however, did not produce a joint statement on the matter due to disagreements among members.

USA - Our nation is in crisis. It isn’t a gun crisis. Or fentanyl crisis. It’s not a border crisis — or even a government funding crisis. It is a moral and spiritual crisis. A sickening video that went viral last weekend fully displays it. The video was of two 17-year-old males, who were apparently identifying as heartless, demon-possessed thugs, recording their joyride in a stolen car. The video shows the two cheering as they ram and force one car off the road.

CHINA - China's growing use of coal including the LONGEST coal transporting railway - which carries 200 MILLION tons of fossil fuel 1,141 MILES annually - draws pundit outrage as western nations spend BILLIONS to push citizens to reduce carbon footprint. A Scottish journalist highlighted the incongruity between the green initiatives coming from Western countries and those coming from China. China is responsible for 33 percent of the world's greenhouse gas, but continues to power itself by coal and establish itself as a global superpower. In the US, the Biden Administration continues to propose tens of billions of dollars be allocated to green initiatives that may or may not be effective.

UK - It seems that this country is on the verge of a colossal mistake. After more than two centuries of ­uninterrupted British ­sovereignty we are apparently about to perform a U-turn and ­abandon the British Indian Ocean Territory. If you can’t immediately place the islands on a map, that is no surprise. They are tiny dots in the wide blue ­yonder, about 3,000 miles east of ­Tanzania and 1,000 miles from the southern tip of India — and yet they are crucial for the strategic interests of the US and its allies. These islands are therefore a key component of our ­relationship with America, on which our own national security utterly depends. Now, if my sources are correct, we are about to hand our title away — and for no good reason, and with no idea what will happen to those islands in the future.