Judge and Trump lawyers discuss motion for mistrial
From CNN’s Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb in New York
Donald Trump’s attorneys said they wanted to make a motion for a mistrial, engaging in a lengthy debate with Judge Arthur Engron, subject to a gag order about how to elevate his author’s behavior.
“We should at least address the matter,” said Trump’s lawyer, Chris Kiss.
Initially, Engoron told Trump’s lawyers that they should not file such a motion that mentions his staff, saying that he had placed a gag order to protect them.
“I am 1000% sure that you have no right or reason to complain about my confidential communications,” Engoren said.
Trump’s lawyers have complained about Engoron passing notes to his clerk, saying it was a sign of bias in the investigation and urging Engoron to reconsider.
“You can’t respectfully dismiss it before you see it,” Kiss said.
Trump attorney Alina Huba told the judge, “Obviously he’s going to go to a mistrial, and that’s part of the plan.”
“We want to have an opportunity to hear things that haven’t been heard before,” Hubba said.
After conferring with his clerk, Engoron reversed course and said Trump’s lawyers could file a motion, but he asked that it be done in writing.
Once they agreed on a course of action, Engoron joked, “I knew it was going to be a love fest by the looks of it.”
Trump sat back in his chair at the security desk during the exchange.
If you’re wondering what it was like to watch Lane Johnson make the final drive of the Cowboys’ run at the Linc on Sunday afternoon, know that it wasn’t all that different from your experience in bed.
nervous.
“I tried not to look at it,” Johnson said. “I was coming back. I was hitting (Jason) Kelce in the head, I was hitting Julio (Jones) in the head, I was hitting Connor (Barvin) in the head. Yeah, we’re old in dog years. I entered the game at 33 (years old), but I’m 42 now. May be.
Briefly about it.
The Eagles beat the Cowboys 28-23 on Sunday night. The tally ticks into the win column, but it was a little too close for comfort.
Thanks to some stuck-in-the-mud active drives late in this game, the Eagles needed some big defensive stops late in this divisional matchup. They got them.
But the entire game hung in the balance in the final moments, with broken plays, injuries, penalties and plenty of Eagles fans holding their breath.
“Football is such an incredible game,” head coach Nick Siriani said. “There are highs. There are lows. Sometimes it brings tears of joy. Sometimes it brings tears to your eyes. It was the plays before that that ultimately led to that frustration. Great job by our defensive line to get pressure at the end of the game.
On the Cowboys second-last drive, the Eagles got two big sacks from Brandon Graham and Jalen Carter and managed to force a turnover with 1:17 left in the game.
But after the Eagles had their third straight 3-and-out in the fourth quarter, the Cowboys got the ball back at their own 14-yard line. They were down five points on a failed 2-point conversion with 46 seconds left. It couldn’t have been easier.
On that final drive, Darius Slay and James Bradberry both had to leave briefly with injuries, leaving the Eagles with Eli Riggs, Josh Jobe and Sidney Brown at cornerback. Cowherds were driving.
“Sh—, that was crazy,” Slay said. “I saw JP go out and next thing you know, I had to go out for two plays. Got hit by the hand of God. … I had to rush and come back. We had to handle it.”
When he went into the blue medical tent to get his leg checked, Bradberry said he couldn’t see the action but could hear the fans. He knew that as long as the fans were engaged, the Eagles were in a good position to win.
“It’s a serious push,” Bradberry said. “It was almost like a playoff game. I was just looking forward to it.”
The biggest play of the series was when Josh Sweat sacked Prescott for an 11-yard loss after the Cowboys got the ball to the Eagles’ 11-yard line.
Sweat is now up to 6 1/2 sacks on the season, but nothing much bigger than this.
“No surprise, to be honest. No surprise,” Jordan Mailata said. “Sweat is not recognized enough, he’s not talked about enough. They can start talking about him after this game and put him in the mix with Micah Parsons and Myles Garrett. Those guys are a premier edge rusher.
Sweat also has a primary sack celebration. He did that celebration — wiping sweat from his forehead — as Nick Siriani and the rest of the coaching staff yelled for him to get back in the lineup.
The clock was still running and the game was up for grabs.
“I had to get a celebration. I had to get it,” Swett said. “Everybody was like, ‘We’ve got to go, we’ve got to go!’
After Swett’s sack, there were 11 seconds left and the Cowboys had the ball at the Eagles’ 22-yard line. Prescott missed a completion on the next play. Then there was a delay in the game.
With 5 seconds left, the final pass was completed to CeeDee Lamb, who was stopped by Slay and Brown at the 4-yard line. The ball actually got free and Reid Blankenship, who had a big goal line tackle earlier in the fourth, fell on top of it to seal the win.
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Prescott threw for 374 yards with 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions. Lamb caught 11 passes for 191 yards. The Cowboys had 406 yards of offense and 27 first downs.
But when should the Eagles get some stops? They did.
“At halftime, I thought I needed treatment. Then at fulltime, I needed treatment,” Mailata said. “The defense did a great job. When we needed them, they made plays. They made plays, man. Shout out to the defense.”
(Bloomberg) — South Korean stocks rose after the country reimposed a blanket ban on short selling, a controversial move regulators said was meant to prevent illegal use of a trading tactic routinely used by hedge funds and other investors around the world.
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The nearly eight-month moratorium will help appease retail investors who have complained about the impact of the shortfall — selling shares borrowed by institutional investors ahead of elections in April, many market watchers said. However, it could limit the participation of foreign funds in the $1.7 trillion stock market and complicate Korea’s bid to earn developed market status in MSCI Inc’s indices.
The Kospi ended the day up 5.7% to cap its biggest gain since March 2020 amid a surge in trading volumes. Foreign investors were the biggest buyers on a net basis, indicating that funds covered short positions. Stocks that saw an increase in short selling recently – including LG Energy Solutions Ltd and Bosco Future M Co – were the biggest contributors to the benchmark’s advance. The smaller COST index rose 7.3%.
Read: Korea eases curbs to affect its developed market Purpose: Street wrap
New short selling positions in the Kospi 200 Index and Kosdaq 150 Index will be prohibited from Monday until the end of June 2024, the Financial Services Authority said on Sunday. This decision will not affect existing positions. Although the pandemic-period bans were effectively lifted for those two metrics in May 2021, the ban remained in place for about 2,000 stocks.
“This policy change is unnecessary at this time in terms of short selling,” said Wongmo Kang, an analyst at Exom Asset Management. “Many see it as a political move aimed at next year’s general election,” he said, adding that the Korean market will be “heavily affected by retail investors.”
South Korea is due to hold general elections for the National Assembly in April and public opinion about short selling is deeply negative in the country. Some ruling party lawmakers urged the government to temporarily halt short-selling of stocks in response to demands from retail investors, who have periodically staged protests against the tactic and sporadic concerted efforts to acquire stocks targeted by short-sellers.
Most short sales in South Korea are conducted by institutional investors. However, it has a small share of the market – 0.6% of Kospi’s market value and 1.6% of Kostak’s, according to exchange data.
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Lee Bokyun, governor of the Financial Supervisory Service, denied the suggestion that the ban was politically motivated, saying the suspension was necessary to protect retail investors and improve the short-selling mechanism. “The ban is inevitable to introduce an advanced short selling system,” he was quoted as saying by Yonhap Infomax.
Sunday’s announcement came days after the financial watchdog said it was planning a comprehensive investigation into global investment banks’ short-selling trades in an effort to root out the illegal practice of naked short-selling in South Korea. Earlier in October, the FSS proposed to impose registration penalties on two global banks for engaging in “routine and deliberate” gross short selling.
The so-called barebones type of trading involves shorting stocks without first borrowing.
Read: Korea to fine banks for naked shorts; Local media name HSBC, BNP
Kospi surged earlier this year on a frenzy of buying electric-vehicle battery names and chip stocks related to the artificial intelligence theme. Concerns about geopolitical tensions and higher interest rates have altered the rally in recent months, leading to a technical correction and nearly erasing its gains for the year.
The volume is now up nearly 12% in 2023, compared with a 2.6% advance in the broader MSCI Asia Pacific index. On Monday, trading volume on the Kosby was 70% above its average over the past 10 sessions, according to NH Investments.
The latest ban is “unusual” because authorities ban short selling outright when there is no major external risk, said Hu Jae-hwan, an analyst at Eugene Investment & Securities. South Korea banned short selling during the global financial crisis in 2008, amid the euro-zone debt crisis and the US sovereign default in 2011, and again in 2020 during the start of the pandemic.
While regulators argue that blatant short selling prevents fair price formation and hurts confidence, some observers argue that broad transparency barriers make the market less transparent and therefore less attractive. Some regulators also say that the market in MSCI indices may not improve.
“This will compromise their position and certainly prevent them from achieving a developed market position,” said Gary Dugan, chief investment officer at Dalma Capital Management Ltd. Prices of companies with some short selling,” but the overall market may have less short positions, he said.
A spokeswoman for MSCI said the index provider does not comment on potential future reclassifications. The head of the country’s stock exchange said in an interview earlier this year that South Korea must take the politically important step of fully removing restrictions on stock short selling to ensure its inclusion in a major global index.
“International investors are likely to lose confidence and opportunity in the Korean market,” Exome Asset’s Kang said. “Without the ability for investors to express a perception that markets and individual stocks are ‘mispriced’ upside, stock markets lose long-term credibility on the global stage.”
–With help from Abhishek Vishnoi.
(Updates throughout. An earlier version of this story has been edited to show that the ban was partially lifted in May 2021.)
Tensions continue to rise along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, with Israel and Lebanon reporting civilian casualties on Sunday as a result of ongoing attacks between Israel Defense Forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
IDF Chief Herzei Halevi said in a statement on Sunday that the army was ready for an “offensive mode” in the north at any time.
Both Israel and Lebanon – where the powerful paramilitary group Hezbollah operates in the south – said Sunday that civilians had died along the border.
In Lebanon: Lebanon’s state-run NNA news reported that four relatives, including three children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a civilian vehicle in southern Lebanon.
According to NNA, the vehicle was traveling on the road between the villages of Einada and Idarun, near the border with Israel, when it was hit.
Lebanese state media reported that a grandmother and her three grandchildren were killed in the attack. The children’s mother was also injured and shifted to a nearby hospital.
The Israel Defense Forces said it had identified and engaged a suspicious vehicle in Lebanon.
Hezbollah said in a statement that it fired several rockets at Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel at 7:20 p.m. local time (12:20 p.m. ET) in response to the strike.
In Israel: An Israeli citizen was killed as a result of the Hezbollah attack, IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee told Arab media.
“Today, Hezbollah continues to attack Israeli military bases and civilian towns without distinguishing between civilians and military personnel. One of the attacks resulted in the death of an Israeli citizen,” Adraee said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Hezbollah accused it of undermining security along the northern border, saying the group “indiscriminately targets residents of the north, threatening stability in southern Lebanon.”
Some background: A firefight between Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah has been ongoing along the border in recent weeks following a Hamas attack in Israel on October 7.
He said Hezbollah would be “prepared for all scenarios” and that any Israeli military escalation along the border would be a “historic folly” and would trigger a massive response.
But he said Hezbollah’s “primary goal” was to achieve a cease-fire in Gaza, and said it would be up to the United States — which has been directly responsible for the bloodshed in the Palestinian territory — to enforce the cessation of hostilities.
US officials have repeatedly warned Nasrallah and other opponents of Israel not to take advantage of the current fighting to start a wider conflict in the region. Preventing a multi-front war was the central focus of the US secretary of state’s whirlwind diplomatic tour of the Middle East this weekend.
A somewhat subjective rating of the day’s weather, on a scale of 0 to 10.
8/10: A sunny and mild afternoon is a treat in early November.
Today: Partly to mostly sunny. Highs: Mid 60s to near 70s.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows: Upper 30s to low 40s.
Tomorrow: Partly to mostly sunny. Highs: Low to mid 60s.
It was a very pleasant end to the weekend with lots of sunshine, cool mornings and mild afternoons in the 60s. Sunset time on this first day of regular time is after 5 pm. Tomorrow will be slightly cooler before a warmer Tuesday, when many places will reach the 70s. Chances of rain are slim by mid-week, although a slight chance may arrive on Wednesday.
Today (Sunday): Any early clouds give way to mostly sunny skies in the morning and afternoon. Cool morning temperatures rise into the 40s to high 50s, but moderate afternoon highs in the mid-60s near 70. Winds will be light mainly from the northwest. After daylight saving time ends, the sun sets between 5pm and 5:05pm across the region. Confidence: High
Tonight: It’s often a partly cloudy night, with temperatures dropping from the 30s to the low 40s. The wind is light from the north. Confidence: High
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Tomorrow (Monday): Another chilly morning and a rather pleasant afternoon, with partly cool highs in the low to mid 60s to partly mostly sunny skies. Winds blowing from the south at 5-10 mph. Confidence: High
Tomorrow night: We are partly cloudy and several degrees warmer than recent nights. So it will be a relatively mild night, with lows in the 40s to 50s and partly cloudy skies. Confidence: Medium High
tuesday The next few days look to be warm with highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s and partly sunny skies. Skies will be mostly cloudy Tuesday night, with lows in the 40s and 50s. Confidence: Medium High
Wednesday Increasing clouds and slight chance of rain will be seen. Temperatures will be in the upper 60s and lows Wednesday night in the 40s to near 50s. Confidence: Low-Medium
Apple’s new M3 Pro chip with a 12-core CPU offers only slightly faster CPU performance compared to the M2 Pro chips with a 12-core CPU. Geekbench 6 result Found today by Vadim YurievCo-host of YouTube channel Max Tech. This is only a key result, so additional results are needed to confirm accuracy.
Apple on Monday announced new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max chips. This criterion is the result Looks like For the 14-inch model based on the “Mac15,6” model identifier listed.
The result shows a single-core score of 3,035 for the M3 Pro and a multi-core score of 15,173. If these scores are accurate, the M3 Pro is 14% faster than the M2 Pro in terms of single-core performance, but only up to 6% faster. Based on multi-core performance For the most demanding tasks and workflows.
Both the M2 Pro and M3 Pro are equipped with up to a 12-core CPU, but the M3 Pro only has six high-performance cores and six performance cores, while the M2 Pro has eight high-performance cores and four performance cores. While the M3 Pro is manufactured with TSMC’s 3nm process, compared to 5nm for the M2 Pro, the chip’s performance gains are reduced due to having two fewer performance cores. The M3 Pro has 25% less memory bandwidth and one less GPU core compared to the M2 Pro.
By limiting the number of high-performance cores on the M3 Pro, Apple has created a greater contrast between the M3 Pro and the M3 Max, which has 12 high-performance cores. However, as a result, the M3 Pro is slightly faster than the M2 Pro.
Geekbench 6 results from earlier this week show the M3 Max is up to 45% faster than the M2 Max, while the standard M3 chip is up to 20% faster than the standard M2 chip, so the M3 Pro is the least improved chip in the series. Of course, the M3 Pro is still a significant upgrade for those coming from an Intel-based Mac. The M3 Pro is up to 20% faster than the M1 Pro chip, which is a nice improvement.
As always, benchmarks provide a useful reference point, but real-world performance may vary.
The new MacBook Pro models are available to order now, and the M3 and M3 Pro configurations will begin arriving to customers and launch in stores on Tuesday, November 7. M3 Max configurations will launch later in November.
As they seek to end a 114-day actors’ strike, studios said Saturday they have made their “last, best and final” offer to SAG-AFTRA.
The offer includes an enhanced residual bonus for high performing streaming programs. Under the plan, actors who appear in the most-watched shows on each platform will have their standard streaming residual doubled.
That’s more than the contract awarded to the Writers Guild of America, which won a 50% residual bonus for writers on top-performing shows.
The package includes comprehensive safeguards on artificial intelligence and minimum increases over 40 years.
The Zoom meeting included eight executives from seven studios: Disney’s Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslau, NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Paramount’s Brian Robbins, Amazon’s Mike Hopkins and Jen Salke, and Sony’s Tony Vinciguerra.
At the meeting, Sarandos tried to drive home to union leaders that the offer was generous.
“We’re not coming at you,” he told them, according to a source. “We came all the way to you.”
The relatively brief meeting came a day after the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers spelled out the terms of their “comprehensive” offer to the union.
SAG-AFTRA leaders advised on Saturday that they would need more time to analyze and respond to the offer. Union leadership was expected to flex among themselves on Saturday, then advise studios on next steps.
On the studio side, there was some disbelief and frustration with SAG-AFTRA leadership, who saw the talks as unnecessarily drawn out.
However, the union insisted that many of the issues on the table were “existential” for the actors.
In an email to members at 3pm on Saturday, the union advised that the studios had made their “last, best and final” offer.
“We are reviewing it and considering our response in the context of the important issues raised in our proposals,” the union said. “As always, unless it comes from your union, please do not believe any outside sources or rumours.”
By invoking the words “last, best and final,” the studios are trying to convey that they won’t take any action. In a typical negotiation, that language would signal that the union’s only alternative is a strike. However, in this case, SAG-AFTRA has already been on strike since July 14th.
The two sides have been engaged in continuous talks for the last 12 days to bring this to an end.
The studios have made it clear they want to end the strike as quickly as possible. Given the time pressures of the production schedule, they have warned that without a deal they may have to cancel TV shows and delay further theatrical releases.
Artificial intelligence is one of the most difficult problems to solve. The union said it wanted some safeguards against the creation of “digital doubles,” and it appears the studio’s latest offer still falls short.
It remains unclear whether a deal can be reached this weekend.
Negotiators have spent much of the past week hammering out many of the finer points on the AI issue, including the scope of approvals required for AI use. The issue is particularly important for background actors, many of whom fear being replaced by digital versions of themselves in the first place.
Around the industry, there is widespread belief that the strike is in its final days – even if it has exceeded most expectations.
SAG-AFTRA reminded members in an email Saturday of the picket schedule for the coming week, noting there would be no picketing Friday because of Veterans Day. The union also advised members to pick up collectable strike buttons at each studio lot.
This story has been updated with details of the meeting.
[1/6]Soldiers carry an injured man on a stretcher after the earthquake in Jajarkot, Nepal on November 4, 2023. Manual by Nepal Army/REUTERS Get license rights
KATHMANDU, Nov 4 (Reuters) – At least 128 people were killed and dozens injured in Nepal after a powerful earthquake struck the western region of Jajarkot, collapsing houses and buildings in the area. India was shocked.
Nepal’s National Seismological Center said the quake had a magnitude of 6.4 at 11:47 pm (1802 GMT) on Friday. The German Research Center for Geosciences measured the quake at 5.7, down from 6.2, while the US Geological Survey put it at 5.6.
The quake was the deadliest since two earthquakes in the Himalayan country in 2015 killed nearly 9,000 people. Entire cities, centuries-old temples and other historic sites were subsequently razed to the ground, more than a million homes destroyed, and $6 billion in economic costs.
Officials feared the death toll from Friday’s quake could rise as they were unable to establish contact in the mountainous region near the epicenter, about 500 km (300 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu, where tremors were felt. The district has a population of 190,000 villages scattered in remote hills.
“The number of injured may be in the hundreds and the death toll may rise,” Jajarkot district official Harish Chandra Sharma told Reuters by phone.
Police spokesman Kuber Kadayat said 92 people were killed in Jajarkot and 36 in Ruk West district of Karnali province. The earthquake was in Ramathanda village.
At least 85 people were injured in Ruk West and 55 in Jajarkot, an official in the Prime Minister’s Office said, while 50 people were in hospitals in Jajarkot alone, Sharma said.
“Many houses have collapsed and many more have developed cracks. Thousands of residents spent the night in the cold open as they were too scared to enter their cracked houses,” Sharma said. “I couldn’t get in.”
Police officer Namraj Bhattarai said the search and rescue operations were to reach the affected areas with roads blocked by landslides triggered by the earthquake.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal flew a 16-member military medical team to the area early Saturday to oversee search, rescue and relief operations, his office said.
Posting on social media platform X, Dahl expressed deep grief over the loss of life and property in the earthquake and directed security agencies to initiate immediate rescue and relief operations.
Local media footage showed the crumbling facades of multi-story brick houses, with large pieces of furniture strewn about. Videos at X showed people running into the streets as some buildings were evacuated.
“Houses have collapsed. People have fled their homes. I am in a crowd of panic-stricken residents. We are trying to find out the details of the damage,” police officer Santosh Rokha said over phone.
Report by Gopal Sharma in Kathmandu; Additional reporting by Aditya Kalra and Shivam Patel in New Delhi and Gnaneshwar Rajan and Jahnavi Nidumolu in Bangalore; Editing by Sandra Maller, YP Rajesh and William Mallard
A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a limited spoliation order against Donald Trump in the criminal case of former presidential campaign sabotage in Washington, D.C., allowing potential witnesses in the case to speak freely again.
In a brief order, a three-judge panel of the U.S. D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said it would stay the harsh order issued by District Judge Tanya Sutgan, giving Trump more time to consider a request to stay the order while his appeal is proposed. Court.
The appeals justices — Barack Obama appointees Patricia Millett and Cornelia Billard and Joe Biden appointee Brad Garcia — said they would fast-track Trump’s appeal of the gag order and hear arguments on the matter on Nov. 20.
Since his arrest, Trump has been trying to suspend further restrictions on his ability to speak publicly. Justice Department lawyers have so far successfully argued that Trump’s speech should be curtailed because of how often he posts on social media about potential witnesses in his case, which could lead to harassment or affect their credibility with his jury.
Sutgen ruled against Trump’s lawyers, saying the former president was legal as a criminal defendant, even as he challenged it on constitutional grounds in an appeals court.
After Sutgan temporarily disabled the gag order, Trump quickly resumed posting threatening posts about lawyers and potential witnesses on social media, lawyers from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office told the judge as they urged the restrictions to be reinstated.
In reinstating the order earlier this week, Sutgen noted that a post targeting Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, “almost certainly” would have violated it if it hadn’t been suspended.
Now, the Court of Appeal will consider whether the former president can be granted relief in the matter.
“The prosecution’s request for a gag order is hostile to President Trump’s views and his relentless criticism of the government—including the case,” Trump’s lawyers told the appeals court on Thursday. “The gag order represents an unconstitutional antagonism to President Trump’s vision. It must be stopped immediately.
The order limits Trump’s ability to publicly target court personnel, potential witnesses or the special counsel and his staff. The order does not impose restrictions on certain comments about Washington, D.C., — where the arbitration is held — or disparaging comments about the judiciary, both of which the government sought.
This story has been updated with additional details.
The Hezbollah leader says further escalation between his group and Israel on the Lebanese border is escalating in the Gaza Strip.
Syed Hassan Nasrallah says his pro-Iranian group’s actions against Israel on the Lebanese border appear modest but are ‘very important’.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says following meetings with Israeli leaders that the US is determined not to be a second or third front in the conflict.
Gaza/Jerusalem, Nov 3: Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader has warned the US that Lebanon could turn into a frontline war if Israel does not end its offensive on Gaza.
A strong military force backed by Iran, Hezbollah has been engaging Israeli forces along the Lebanon-Israel border in its worst escalation since it went to war with Israel in 2006.
“We are ready for all possibilities,” Hezbollah leader Syed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address, speaking for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war broke out.
Blaming the US for the war in Gaza, he said the high civilian death toll and expansion into the besieged enclave was crucial to prevent regional war.
“You Americans can stop the occupation of Gaza because it is your occupation. Those who want to prevent a regional war, I am talking to the Americans, must quickly stop the occupation of Gaza,” Nasrallah said.
[1/12]Palestinians gather at the scene of Israeli attacks on homes in Makassi, central Gaza Strip, on November 3, 2023. Obtain licensing rights
He said Hezbollah has not been intimidated by US naval firepower in the Washington region since the crisis erupted.
A further escalation between Israel and his group-Hamas ally on the Lebanese border, Nasrallah said, is what has happened in the Gaza Strip, which has been under attack by Israeli forces since Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7.
Nasrallah’s comments coincided with a visit to Israel by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who said the US was determined not to have a second or third front in the conflict.
Speaking to reporters in Tel Aviv following meetings with Israeli leaders, Blinken said Washington was committed to deterring aggression from any party.
He appealed to Israel to take action to protect civilians in Gaza as its forces continued to bomb the Palestinian territory and the death toll among residents rose.
The Israeli military said its troops were fighting close combat with Hamas militants in the desolate streets after encircling Gaza City in an attempt to destroy the Islamist group, which controls the small, densely populated enclave.
Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, Ali Sawafta, Dan Williams, Emily Rose in Ramallah, Mytal Angel in Jerusalem, Clada Danios, Patricia Zengerle in Dubai, Phil Stewart and Idris Ali in Washington; Additional reporting by Reuters Bureau Worldwide; Written by Michael Perry and Angus MacSwan; Editing by Mirel Fahmy, Andrew Cawthorne and Mark Heinrich
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