A $4 billion settlement has been reached to end thousands of lawsuits filed in the wake of devastating wildfires on Maui nearly one year ago, the governor of Hawaii announced Friday. Defendants including the state of Hawaii, Maui County, and Hawaiian Electric utility will pay the money to compensate victims -
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Palestinian official rejects Israeli settlement move
A senior Palestinian official rejected on Friday a move by Israel’s finance minister intended to promote new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying it was aimed at pursuing a “war of genocide” against Palestinians. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Thursday the Israeli government would also take punitive steps
Lebanese-Israeli fighting looks set to scuttle plans for land border settlement
In October 2022, Lebanon and Israel signed a maritime border agreement brokered by the U.S., a move interpreted as the beginning of normalizing relations between two countries technically at war. The next step would have been the settlement of the long-running land border dispute. But then came the Hamas attack of Oct.
Expanding Israeli settlements a war crime: UN
Expanding Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories constitutes "a war crime" and risks eliminating "any practical possibility" of a viable Palestinian state, the United Nations rights chief warned on Friday. Volker Turk said there had been a drastic acceleration in Israel's illegal settlement building in the occupied West Bank, at
LC opening, settlement fall further in August
Both settlement and opening of Letter of Credit (LC) declined in August as in the previous month following the government’s import cost containment policy, official sources said. LCs worth $531 crore were opened in August, which were $555 crore in July, according to the latest data of Bangladesh Bank. Besides, LCs