Pro-Palestinian letter from Harvard students provokes alumni outrage | Can Russia repeat its winter bombing of Ukraine’s electricity grid? | Russia's Crimean Red Line Has Been Erased | RFK Jr. Launches Independent Presidential Bid

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Pro-Palestinian letter from Harvard students provokes alumni outrage - The Straits Times

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – Prominent Harvard University alumni on Monday denounced a pro-Palestinian statement from students that blamed Israel for violence engulfing the region and urged the university to take action against the signatories.

The Islamist militant Hamas movement, which controls the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, attacked Israel last Saturday in the worst breach of the country's defences since Arab armies waged war in 1973. Israel has responded with air strikes on Gaza.

A coalition of 34 Harvard student organisations said they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” following decades of occupation, adding that “the apartheid regime is the only one to blame”.

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Can Russia repeat its winter bombing of Ukraine’s electricity grid? - The Economist

LAST WINTER, having struggled to achieve progress on the battlefield, Russia sought to destroy the will of Ukraine’s people by intensifying missile attacks on civilian, as well as military, targets. The effort to break the population’s spirit failed, but strikes on Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure did cause widespread damage. Rolling blackouts closed down parts of the economy; many Ukrainians had to live without power and heat. A fresh round of attacks in September 2023 looked like the start of another campaign to destroy the Ukrainian grid. Ukrainian and Western officials told the New York Times that Russia is now producing missiles at a faster rate than before the war, raising fears that Ukraine will face an even tougher winter this time. What is the state of Russia’s stockpile?

Russia’s long-range arsenal includes a wide variety of ballistic and cruise missiles. The former travel at high speed and altitude along a predictable arc; the latter hug the ground and can take roundabout routes. Russia’s pre-war stockpile, including some Soviet-era rockets, was thought to number around 3,500. (These estimates do not include surface-to-air missiles that Russia has adapted so they can hit targets on the ground, such as the S-300.) Russia has used a lot of these reserves since the invasion began. According to Ukrainian figures, Russia launched around 2,500 long-range missiles between February 2022 and May 2023, an average of about 170 a month. Intense activity over the summer, as Ukraine began its counter-offensive, has depleted the reserves even further.

But missiles are not the whole story. Russia has also used Iranian Shahed loitering munitions, sometimes known as “kamikaze drones”, to attack Ukrainian infrastructure. The Shaheds are smaller and less powerful than Russian cruise and ballistic missiles but cheaper and simpler to make. They have become a crucial part of Russia’s arsenal. Russia has almost certainly started producing the devices domestically. Ukrainian intelligence says that Russia currently aims to build or assemble 200 a month. A giant new factory in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan, a region in central Russia, could eventually make more than 1,600 Shaheds a month, although it will take over a decade to reach that capacity.

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Russia's Crimean Red Line Has Been Erased - Foreign Policy

The starting point for the new Middle East will be an Israeli reoccupation of the Gaza Strip, not an Israeli Embassy in Riyadh.

If the Lebanese group does more than fire a few missiles in solidarity, it would dramatically escalate the current conflict.

Analysis: Russia’s Crimean Red Line Has Been Erased

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RFK Jr. Launches Independent Presidential Bid—Challenging Biden And Trump - Forbes

Robert F. Kennedy announced Monday he will run for president as a third-party candidate next year, bucking generations of tradition in the Kennedy political dynasty's allegiance to the Democratic Partyâand posing a challenge to the Trump and Biden campaigns.

Then Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a Hispanic Heritage Month ... [+] event at Wilshire Ebell Theater on September 15, 2023, in Los Angeles.

Kennedy Jr. told supporters in Philadelphia Monday he was dropping his bid for the Democratic nomination and will instead run as an independent.

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