Q3 Results 13th Feb Highlights: NBCC (India), IPCA Lab, NLC Industries Q3 profit up, Alkem Lab shares slump, Rategain & Blue Jet profit fall, Torrent Pharma, KFin Tech, Shakti Pumps announce Q3 results

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State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Wednesday reported a 23 per cent rise in consolidated net profit for the December quarter, aided by improved margins and lower finance costs, even as crude price realizations declined year-on-year.

The company posted a consolidated net profit of ₹11,946 crore in Q3 FY26, compared with ₹9,747 crore in the year-ago period, according to its regulatory filing.

WHAT DRIVES ONGC’S Q3 FY26 PERFORMANCE

Profit Growth Despite Flat Revenue

Consolidated gross revenue in Q3 FY26 stood at ₹1,67,423 crore versus ₹1,67,213 crore in Q3 FY25, a marginal rise of 0.13%.

However, consolidated net profit jumped 23% to ₹11,946 crore from ₹9,747 crore.

Net profit attributable to owners rose 16.7% to ₹10,016 crore from ₹8,585 crore.

Revenue was flat, but profit surged. This indicates margin expansion and cost efficiency, not topline growth drove earnings.

For 9M FY26, revenue declined 1.43% to ₹4,88,442 crore, yet net profit rose nearly 23% to ₹36,115 crore. Clear margin-led performance.

Standalone Revenue Impacted by Lower Crude Prices

Standalone Q3 revenue declined 6.4% to ₹31,546 crore from ₹33,717 crore.

This was mainly due to lower crude realizations:

* Nominated crude realization fell 15% to $61.63/bbl from $72.57/bbl.

* JV crude realization fell 13% to $63.00/bbl from $72.59/bbl.

Despite this sharp drop in prices, standalone net profit still rose 1.6% to ₹8,372 crore from ₹8,240 crore.

Even with weaker crude prices, upstream profitability remained resilient.

Production Stability is Key Positive

Crude production (Standalone):

*Q3 FY26: 4.592 MMT

*Q3 FY25: 4.653 MMT

For 9M FY26, crude production rose 0.35% to 13.907 MMT from 13.858 MMT.

Natural gas production remained stable:

*Q3 FY26: 4.988 BCM

*Q3 FY25: 4.978 BCM

9M gas production remained steady at 14.751 BCM.

Volume stability offsets part of the price decline impact.

New Well Gas Becoming a Strategic Earnings Driver

Revenue from New Well Gas during 9M FY26 stood at ₹5,028 crore.

This generated ₹944 crore additional revenue over APM pricing and now contributes more than 18% of total gas sales revenue.

Nomination gas price rose slightly to $6.59/mmbtu from $6.50/mmbtu.

The Gas portfolio is increasingly cushioning crude price volatility.

Dividend Reflects Strong Cash Position

Board declared 2nd interim dividend of ₹6.25 per share (125%).

Earlier ₹6 per share was declared.

Total interim dividend for FY26 so far: ₹12.25 per share (245%).

Total cumulative interim payout: ₹15,411 crore.

Q3 payout alone: ​​₹7,863 crore.

Strong dividend signals healthy cash flows and balance sheet comfort.

Exploration & Project Momentum Supports Future Growth

* 735.82 LKM of 2D seismic acquired

* 4,484.59 SKM of 3D seismic acquired

* 2 discoveries monetised (Anor in Gujarat, Gojalia-14 in Tripura)

* Ultra-deepwater Andaman well spudded

* KG-98/2 and Daman Upside projects nearing production

Ensures reserve replacement and future production visibility.

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* Profit growth is margin-led, not revenue-led

* Crude prices declined sharply but profitability held.

* Gas ​​portfolio gaining importance

*Production stabilization

* Strong dividend payout reinforces financial strength

ONGC’s Q3 reflects operational resilience and diversified earnings support despite weaker crude pricing.

Who is Team India’s Chris Gayle? Who is Team India’s Chris Gayle? Why no one can replace the Indian opener, Sri Lankan player told

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Who is Team India’s Chris Gayle? Abhishek Sharma bats brilliantly. The responsibility of giving a good start to Team India rests on the shoulders of Abhishek. Former Sri Lankan cricketer Chamara Kapugedara has compared Abhishek with Chris Gayle. Kapugedara feels that Abhishek has the same strength as Gayle. No one else can fill his place in Team India.

Who is Chris Gayle of Team India? Why no one can replace the Indian openerZoom
Abhishek Sharma is Chris Gayle of Team India?

Colombo. Former Sri Lankan cricketer Chamara Kapugedara has praised Indian opener Abhishek Sharma, saying that he reminds him of Chris Gayle during the peak days of his career. Last year in T20, Abhishek batted at a strike rate of 170. His strike rate in powerplay overs is the highest among Indian opening batsmen.

Kapugedara said in the PTI video, India’s success in the last one year has largely depended on Abhishek Sharma. He has batted brilliantly. He said, I have not seen anyone playing like this except Chris Gayle. I don’t think anyone can replace Abhishek Sharma in the Indian team at this time.

Abhishek Sharma is Chris Gayle of Team India?

Comparing Abhishek and wicketkeeper batsman Sanju Samson, Kapugedara said, Sanju is a great player. We have seen him score centuries but the way Abhishek scores runs, he becomes the pivot of Indian batting or gives freedom to the middle order to play without pressure. He also said that before the match against India on Sunday, Pakistan will not get any advantage despite playing all the matches on the same ground.

He said, the pitch of Premadasa Stadium does not provide bounce. I think the Indian team will be a strong contender but considering the current form of Pakistan, it will be a close match.

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Peter Murrell accused of embezzling £459,000 from SNP, court papers show | Scotland

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The former chief executive of the Scottish National party (SNP) Peter Murrell has been accused of embezzling £459,000 from the party over a period of more than 12 years, according to court documents that emerged ahead of a hearing.

Murrell, the ex-husband of the former first minister and party leader Nicola Sturgeon, is due to appear at the high court in Glasgow next Friday for a preliminary hearing in the case.

Details of the charges, which accuse Murrell of embezzling £459,046.49 of party funds between 12 August 2010 and 13 January 2023, and illicitly purchasing items including luxury goods, jewellery, cosmetics, two cars and a motorhome, were first published in the Scottish Sun.

According to documents seen by the newspaper, Murrell bought a Niesmann and Bischoff Smove 7.4e motorhome at a cost of £124,550 for his own personal use from a dealer in Stafford using SNP funds.

He is also accused of creating “false” sales documents “in order to portray the purchase as a legitimate party expense” in the court papers.

He is further accused of using £57,500 of SNP money towards the purchase of an £81,000 Jaguar I-Pace car in 2019.

Further allegations include that Murrell made “false invoices” for a £12,042 payment to Apple Retail and £2,478 to the German retailer Manufactum, both for “purported business related” purchases. He is also accused of using SNP funds to pay a parking ticket, according to the documents seen by the Sun.

Murrell, who served as the party’s chief executive for 22 years, made no plea during an initial appearance at Edinburgh sheriff court last year after which he was granted bail.

He was arrested in 2023 as part of Operation Branchform, the Police Scotland investigation into SNP finances, and charged with embezzlement in April 2024. Sturgeon was also arrested and questioned by Police Scotland detectives in June 2023 as part of Operation Branchform, but later exonerated.

In her memoir Frankly, published last August, Sturgeon described her “utter disbelief” when police raided her home in Glasgow and arrested Murrell. “With police tents all around it, it looked more like a murder scene than the place of safety it had always been for me. I was devastated, mortified, confused and terrified.”



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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responded to border czar Tom Homan’s announcement Thursday that the Trump administration will withdraw ICE agents from the city, saying, “I’ll believe it when I see it.”

During an appearance on “The Daily Show,” Frey was asked by host Jordan Klepper whether he actually believes ICE agents will be removed from Minneapolis, or if he’s calling “bulls—” on Homan’s pledge.

“I will believe it when I see it,” he replied. “And if you’re looking for anybody to give credit to for the end of Operation Metro Surge — for the pressure that was put on the federal government for these incredible patriotic acts that have taken place over the last month and a half — give it to the 435,000 Minneapolis residents.”

TIM WALZ DEMANDS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ‘PAY FOR WHAT THEY BROKE’ AFTER HOMAN ANNOUNCES MINNESOTA DRAWDOWN

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is seen on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minn.  (Adam Gray/AP)

Homan announced Thursday that the administration will conclude Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. He told reporters during a news conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis that the operation had reduced public safety threats with “unprecedented levels of coordination” from state officials and local law enforcement.

“As a result of our efforts here, Minnesota is now less of a sanctuary state for criminals,” Homan said.

“I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude,” he continued.

Frey credited those who had been “peacefully protesting by the tens of thousands” for prompting the administration’s decision to withdraw federal immigration agents from the city.

“They’ve been dropping off food for people that are otherwise scared to go outside and leave their homes. They’re watching guard on a daycare. I mean, they are the defenders of this great republic in this moment,” he argued. “I mean, they are everything that it means to be American.”

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Protesters are confronted by an ICE supporter during a demonstration outside the Bishop Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 15, 2026.  (Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images)

Agreeing with Frey, Klepper said it’s been “remarkable to see what the protesters have been doing in Minneapolis,” but there are still “a lot of questions” about whether the Trump administration can be trusted to “follow up on its word.”

“Do you have any knowledge right now of ICE agents being removed?” Klepper asked Frey.

“I know there were 700 that were promised to be removed a few weeks ago,” the mayor said. “Both my hope and my expectation is that this operation will be drawn down in the very near future. And by the very near future, I mean in the next week or so. And simultaneously, like I said, we’ll believe it when I see it.”

Homan said Thursday that a “small footprint of personnel” will remain for a period of time, while he will also remain on the ground to oversee the operation’s drawdown and success.

TRUMP DEFENDS MINNEAPOLIS FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT, SAYS CRIME PLUNGED AFTER ‘THOUSANDS OF CRIMINALS’ REMOVED

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White House border czar Tom Homan deployed to Minnesota on Jan. 26, 2026, to run point on the immigration crackdown in the state.  (Jim Watson/Getty Images)

“Additionally, federal government personnel assigned to conduct criminal investigations into the agitators, as well as the personnel assigned here for the fraud investigations, will remain in place until the work is done,” Homan said.

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UAT-9921 Deploys VoidLink Malware to Target Technology and Financial Sectors

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A previously unknown threat actor tracked as UAT-9921 has been observed leveraging a new modular framework called VoidLink in its campaigns targeting the technology and financial services sectors, according to findings from Cisco Talos.

“This threat actor seems to have been active since 2019, although they have not necessarily used VoidLink over the duration of their activity,” researchers Nick Biasini, Aaron Boyd, Asheer Malhotra, and Vitor Ventura said. “UAT-9921 uses compromised hosts to install VoidLink command-and-control (C2), which are then used to launch scanning activities both internal and external to the network.”

VoidLink was first documented by Check Point last month, describing it as a feature-rich malware framework written in Zig designed for long-term, stealthy access to Linux-based cloud environments. It’s assessed to be the work of a single developer with assistance from a large language model (LLM) to flesh out its internals based on a paradigm called spec-driven development.

In another analysis published earlier this week, Ontinue pointed out that the emergence of VoidLink presents a new concern where LLM-generated implants, packed with kernel-level rootkits and features to target cloud environments, can further lower the skill barrier required to produce hard-to-detect malware.

Per Talos, UAT-9921 is believed to possess knowledge of the Chinese language, given the language of the framework, and the toolkit appears to be a recent addition. It is also believed that the development was split across teams, although the extent of the demarcation between development and the actual operations remains unclear.

“The operators deploying VoidLink have access to the source code of some [kernel] modules and some tools to interact with the implants without the C2,” the researchers noted. “This indicates inner knowledge of the communication protocols of the implants.”

VoidLink is deployed as a post-compromise tool, allowing the adversary to sidestep detection. The threat actor has also been observed deploying a SOCKS proxy on compromised servers to launch scans for internal reconnaissance and lateral movement using open-source tools like Fscan.

The cybersecurity company said it’s aware of multiple VoidLink-related victims dating back to September 2025, indicating that work on the malware may have commenced much earlier than the November 2025 timeline pieced together by Check Point.

VoidLink uses three different programming languages: ZigLang for the implant, C for the plugins, and GoLang for the backend. It supports compilation on demand for plugins, providing support for the different Linux distributions that might be targeted. The plugins allow for gathering information, lateral movement, and anti-forensics.

The framework also comes fitted with a wide range of stealth mechanisms to hinder analysis, prevent its removal from the infected hosts, and even detect endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions and devise an evasion strategy on the fly.

“The C2 will provide that implant with a plugin to read a specific database the operator has found or an exploit for a known vulnerability, which just happens to be on an internal web server,” Talos said.

“The C2 doesn’t necessarily need to have all these tools available — it may have an agent that will do its research and prepare the tool for the operator to use. With the current VoidLink compile-on-demand capability, integrating such a feature should not be complex. Keep in mind that all of this will happen while the operator continues to explore the environment.”

Another defining trait of VoidLink is its auditability and the existence of a role-based access control (RBAC) mechanism, which consists of three role levels: SuperAdmin, Operator, and Viewer. This suggests that the developers of the framework kept oversight in mind when designing it, raising the possibility that the activity may be part of red team exercises.

What’s more, there are signs that there exists a main implant that has been compiled for Windows and can load plugins via a technique called DLL side-loading.

“This is a near-production-ready proof of concept,” Talos said. “VoidLink is positioned to become an even more powerful framework based on its capabilities and flexibility.”



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Ruling against Palestine Action ban is embarrassing defeat for the government | Palestine Action

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The list of those who criticised the ban on Palestine Action and its consequences was disparate to say the least, taking in a Trump administration official, a former director of public prosecutions, a former director of the security services, Home Office officials, politicians of different stripes, and UN experts, not to mention a host of NGOs.

Now a trio of senior judges can be added to the list, after they deemed the ban to be “disproportionate” and impinging on freedom of speech and protest when the direct action group’s activities could be targeted under the existing criminal law.

From the point in June last year when the then home secretary, Yvette Cooper, first announced her intention to proscribe Palestine Action, the ban has been hugely controversial.

While “serious property damage” is a criterion for a ban under the Terrorism Act 2000, the legislation had previously only been used on groups intent on violence to the person, such as Islamic State and Boko Haram.

As such, its use against Palestine Action, a group that targeted the UK sites of the Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems and others it said were complicit in genocide against the Palestinians, jarred with many.

As well as its reliance on the “serious property damage provision” in the Terrorism Act, the ban also drew attention to the fact that the UK is one of the few countries where recklessly expressing support for a proscribed organisation is an offence.

Never before had a direct action group been banned, fuelling perceptions, despite government denials, that suppressing pro-Palestinian voices was more important to ministers than stopping the slaughter of tens of thousands of people trapped in Gaza.

The advocacy organisations We Believe in Israel and the Campaign Against Antisemitism had pressed the government to proscribe Palestine Action, and the Guardian had previously revealed meetings, under the Conservative government, with Elbit representatives and Israeli embassy officials, that were apparently concerned with cracking down on the group.

Cynicism only increased in the run-up to the parliamentary vote on the ban as the Home Office briefed the Times that it was investigating whether Palestine Action was funded by Iran – a claim the Home Office later distanced itself from and which the independent reviewer on terrorism legislation, Jonathan Hall KC, who supported the ban, told Channel 4’s Dispatches was “nudge-nudge, wink-wink” insinuation without foundation.

There were also concerns that two neo-Nazi groups, the Maniacs Murder Cult and the Russian Imperial Movement, were included on the same banning order, which meant MPs were forced to vote on banning all or none of them.

If the government expected the controversy to settle down after the ban came into effect, it was to be disappointed. Not only was there a legal challenge – an injunction to stay the ban having been rejected – but also a campaign of civil disobedience. Scenes of pensioners, including clergy and war veterans, being carried away by police only added to criticism, with the Metropolitan Police Federation saying the extra demands on officers as a result of the repeated demonstrations, during which hundreds of people were arrested, were “unsustainable”.

Police interventions were simultaneously chilling and absurd. Laura Murton was threatened with arrest by armed officers for supporting Palestine Action after holding a sign saying “free Gaza” and a Palestinian flag. Marianne Sorrell, a retired teacher, was held by police for almost 27 hours, during which officers forced their way into her house and searched it, after she was arrested for holding a placard saying: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

Jon Farley was arrested for carrying a placard reproducing a graphic from Private Eye magazine, which said: “Unacceptable Palestine Action: spraying military planes. Acceptable Palestine Action: shooting Palestinians queueing for food.”

Downing Street described Palestine Action as “a violent organisation that has committed violence, significant injury, extensive criminal damage” and Cooper made similar statements but they seemed to be contradicted by documents released in the judicial review.

The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (Jtac), a government body based within MI5, produced a secret report on 7 March last year that was disclosed in the high court. While recommending banning Palestine Action, Jtac said the group “primarily uses direct action tactics”, which typically resulted in minor damage to property. “Common tactics include graffiti, petty vandalism, occupation and lock-ons,” it said.

Whitehall officials also supported a ban, but conceded that proscribing the group would be “relatively novel” as “there was no known precedent of an organisation being proscribed on the basis that it was concerned in terrorism mainly due to its use or threat of action involving serious damage to property”.

Ultimately, the judges found that “a very small number of Palestine Action’s activities amounted to acts of terrorism within the definition of section 1 of the 2000 act”.

But in trying to categorise it as such, not only has the government suffered a humiliating defeat, it has transformed Palestine Action from a little-known protest group to one that is on the front page of newspapers.



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Fetterman rips Democrats for prioritizing politics in DHS shutdown showdown

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., the lone Senate Democrat to join the GOP to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), accused his colleagues of choosing party over country in their shutdown vote.

Senate Democrats dug their heels in against funding the agency on Thursday in their pursuit of stringent reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), following the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good during immigration operations in Minnesota.

But Fetterman believed that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his party were missing the point.

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., bucked his party again and joined Senate Republicans to fund DHS. He argued that ICE, CBP and immigration operations wouldn’t be hurt by a shutdown, but other crucial functions like TSA, FEMA and the Coast Guard would.  (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

“This shutdown literally has zero impact on ICE functionality,” Fetterman said in a post on X. “Country over party is refusing to hit the entire Department of Homeland Security. Democracy demands a way forward to reform ICE without damaging our critical national security agencies.”

Senate Democrats’ refusal to fund DHS this week has made a partial government shutdown affecting only DHS inevitable. The deadline to strike a deal is midnight Friday, and the likelihood of that happening is nearly nonexistent.

That’s because both chambers of Congress quickly fled Washington, D.C., on Thursday, with many in the upper chamber leaving the country altogether for the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced that Democrats wouldn’t accept a funding extension to DHS with just days left until a partial shutdown.  (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Schumer and his caucus argued that the White House and Republicans weren’t serious about reforms to ICE or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and contended that the GOP’s counteroffer to their own list of demands didn’t go far enough to earn their votes.

But to Fetterman’s point, shutting down DHS won’t halt the cash flow to immigration operations.

That’s because congressional Republicans last year injected roughly $75 billion into the agency for ICE with President Donald Trump’s marquee “big, beautiful bill.” That money is spread across the next four years, meaning that a shutdown now will have little, if any, effect on ICE’s core functions.

DEMS DIG IN, GUARANTEE SHUTDOWN WITH BLOCK OF DHS FUNDING

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A TSA agent wears a patch on his uniform at the Miami International Airport on Dec. 17, 2024, in Miami. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

But other functions under DHS’ purview, like TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard and more, will experience the brunt of the partial shutdown.

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Negotiations on striking a deal are expected to continue in the background, and Senate Democrats have signaled that they’re considering offering a counteroffer to the White House in response to the GOP proposal.

Still, a vote to reopen and fund the agency won’t happen until early next week at best.

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.



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Israeli settlers injure dozens of Palestinians in wave of West Bank attacks | Occupied West Bank News

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Latest attacks come amid a widely condemned Israeli push to cement control over the occupied Palestinian territory.

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Dozens of Palestinians have been injured as Israeli settlers carried out a wave of attacks across the occupied West Bank, destroying olive trees and vandalising property.

At least 54 Palestinians were wounded on Friday morning as settlers attacked several towns and villages under the protection of the Israeli military.

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Settlers assaulted Palestinian farmers on their lands near Talfit, a village south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, and Israeli troops fired tear gas and live ammunition at residents who tried to repel the settler attack.

Images from the village showed homes with broken windows and vehicles with smashed windshields as a result of the attack.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli settlers also destroyed about 300 Palestinian olive trees near the Ramallah-area town of Turmus Aya, the Wafa news agency reported, citing local sources.

Palestinians across the West Bank have faced an intensified surge in Israeli military and settler violence in the shadow of Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza.

A shattered window overlooks a street after it was broken when Jewish settlers vandalised vehicles and homes in the Palestinian village of Telfit, south of the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus on February 13, 2026.
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At least 1,054 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank by Israeli troops and settlers between October 7, 2023, and February 5 of this year, according to the latest United Nations figures.

Israel has also forcibly displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians from their homes across the West Bank, refusing to allow them to return in what Human Rights Watch says amounts to war crimes and a crime against humanity.

The Israeli government drew international condemnation this week after it approved plans to extend its authority over more of the West Bank – a move that observers denounced as de facto annexation, in violation of international law.

“If these decisions are implemented, they will undoubtedly accelerate the dispossession of Palestinians and their forcible transfer, and lead to the creation of more illegal Israeli settlements,” UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Wednesday.

“We are witnessing rapid steps to change permanently the demography of the occupied Palestinian territory, stripping its people of their lands and forcing them to leave,” Turk said in a statement.

“This is supported by rhetoric and actions by senior Israeli officials, and violates Israel’s obligation as an occupying power to preserve the existing legal order and social fabric. These decisions must be overturned.”



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The White House is pushing back after Democrats praised the decision to scale down an immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said “nothing will ever stop” President Trump’s efforts.

Operation Metro Surge, a major Department of Homeland Security immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis area, is coming to an end. The announcement follows weeks of demonstrations after two Americans were fatally shot by federal immigration agents.

Border czar Tom Homan said Thursday there would be a “significant drawdown” of immigration agents in the area. Leavitt said the mission still achieved its goals.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 26. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

“Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota has been a resounding success,” Leavitt said Friday on “Fox & Friends.”

TRUMP SAYS IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN NEEDS ‘SOFTER TOUCH’ WITH ‘TOUGH’ STANCE AFTER DEADLY MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTINGS

“It has resulted in the detention and deportation of more than 4,000 illegal alien criminals. Let me repeat, 4,000 illegal alien criminals just from Minnesota alone,” she added.

Homan took control of Minnesota operations in late January after the deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti sparked widespread protests across the state. He said that while many agents are leaving, he and a smaller group will remain.

Leavitt stressed that immigration enforcement in Minnesota “absolutely will not” end, even after it scales back.

“Nothing will ever stop President Trump and this administration from targeted immigration enforcement, focusing on the worst of the worst criminals in American communities,” she said.

CONSERVATIVE IMMIGRATION EXPERTS SPLIT ON WHETHER TRUMP IS ‘BACKING DOWN’ IN MN ICE FIGHT

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz celebrated the removal of agents during a news conference after Homan’s announcement, arguing the federal government needs to “pay for what they broke here.”

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Protesters clash with law enforcement outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Minneapolis on Jan. 8. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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“The federal government needs to be responsible. You don’t get to break things and then just leave without doing something about it,” Walz said, calling on the federal government to pay for the damages in Minneapolis.

Walz added that the surge left the community with “deep damage” and “generational trauma.”

Fox News Digital’s Peter Pinedo and Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.

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