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...Some European officials are wary of targeting the so-called axis of resistance — which includes Hizbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, Houthi rebels in Yemen and Iraqi militias — during such a volatile period...
...“Israel’s war is not just against Hamas, but very clearly designed to strike across the axis of resistance to weaken and deter the multiple groups.”...
...The leader of Lebanon’s Hizbollah militant group said that the strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus this week widely blamed on Israel marked a “turning point” and vowed that Iran’s response would...
...“We are not seeking war, but we are not afraid of it,” Major General Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Wednesday....
...Iran is a main supporter of militant groups opposed to Israel and the US presence in the region collectively known as the Axis of Resistance....
...Their strategy of forward defence — building up militias and creating the so-called Axis of Resistance — has proved itself. Each militia has its own identity and a degree of autonomy....
...Yet the system remains preoccupied with surviving the impact of swingeing economic sanctions and supporting its axis of resistance groups across the Middle East....
...US officials said the military had in response targeted facilities in Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran-affiliated militias....
...The role of Hizbollah, the Iran-backed militant group based in Lebanon, is crucial....
...But the very same group gathered around supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, have no intention of surrendering the Shia Arab axis they have forged, using Shia Arab...
...The state-backed powerful China National Tobacco Corp enjoys a tight monopoly over the $235bn sector, and weaning China’s 300mn smokers off cigarettes — beneficial to common prosperity as that may be — would...
...It also wants the IRGC, a state body designated a terrorist group by Trump, delisted. Yet IRGC leaders head paramilitary operations in the Middle East and have a lock on Iran’s economy....
...It also wants the IRGC, a state institution designated a terrorist group by Trump, delisted....
...It came after the US listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — Iran’s praetorian guard at home and expeditionary army abroad — as terrorists in April and the extension of sanctions over the supreme...
...The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group, to which Mr Bolton referred, set out for the Mediterranean and the Gulf more than a month ago, as part of a scheduled rotation....
...Other insurers in the red include Hartford Financial Services Group, down 2.16 per cent; Allstate Corp, with a 1.76 per cent decline; and Progressive Corp, which fell 2.5 per cent....
...Among the biggest creditors are Standard Chartered, ICICI and Axis bank....
...Although many financial services groups are reviewing their staffing in the UK after the vote to leave the EU, Goldman insists the move is not connected to Brexit....
...Axis Bank, HSBC, MUFG and Standard Chartered are leading the NTPC deal, due to price on Thursday. The company is aiming to borrow Rs10bn....
...“I don’t buy this theory about the axis of adults,” says Kagan. “Even Obama was able to overrule his senior generals....
...Arch considered a bid for smaller rival Axis Capital last year....
...That was not as strong an axis of management as it needed to be.” In Thursday’s IPO BNP sold 21.1m shares at $23 each, at the top of the indicative pricing range....
...Last year, it bought Sweden-based Axis AB for $2.8bn to expand its presence in the video surveillance market....
...“It clearly was not some move by the Axis of Evil players to take over Icann,” said Milton Mueller, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and expert in internet policy....
...It also owns parts of valuable private sector companies, including lender Axis Bank and engineering group Larsen & Toubro, worth more than $7bn. Equally, Mr Sinha puts emphasis on “strategic sales”....
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