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Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said on Tuesday it had elected deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air attack on Beirut’s southern suburb over a month ago. The group said in a written statement that its Shoura Council had elected
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Iran’s government has proposed to triple its military budget, its spokeswoman said Tuesday, as tensions with arch-rival Israel rise following recent tit-for-tat missile strikes. Government spokeswoman Fatemeh MoHajjerani outlined the move that would see “a significant increase of more than 200 percent in the country’s military budget” at
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Tunisia’s coast guard has recovered the bodies of 16 migrants off the coast of the towns of Maloulech, Salakta and Chebba, the national guard said on Monday, the latest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean. “The bodies were found at the weekend and on Monday... The victims have not
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The World Food Programme has called on the warring parties in Sudan’s conflict to grant full access to the agency as the country faces the imminent threat of famine. Sudan has been gripped by war since April 2023 between the regular armed forces led by the country’s de
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Flagrant violations of the laws of war in the escalating conflict in the Middle East are setting a dangerous precedent, aid workers in the region warn. Since Hamas’s deadly October 7 attack on Israel from Gaza last year, humanitarians say the warring parties are flouting international humanitarian law (IHL)
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Two people were fatally shot on Monday in a rural area of northern Austria, police said, and the suspected shooter was on the run. The body of a man was found early Monday in the Muehlviertel area of Upper Austria province, the Austria Press Agency reported. Police said later in
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Around 40 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in Chad’s Lake region on Sunday, the central African country’s presidency said on Monday. President Mahamat Idriss Deby launched an operation to track down the assailants, the statement said. The presidency did not name the group
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National pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions still fall far short of what is needed to limit catastrophic global warming, the United Nations said on Monday as countries prepare for the next round of climate change negotiations in November. The “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs) already submitted by countries to the
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Israelis reacted with mixed emotions to the country’s strikes Saturday on arch-foe Iran. While some hoped for de-escalation, others expressed confidence in the military’s ability to defend them. The army said its planes hit military bases, missile sites and other systems in several Iranian regions in retaliation for
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A suicide bomber detonated at a checkpoint in western Pakistan on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding five more, officials said. The bomber set off the blast from the back of a motorbike rickshaw near the town of Mir Ali in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a local police officer said on
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Three men died after two light planes collided midair and crashed into a forested area southwest of Sydney on Saturday. Australian police, fire and ambulance crews reached the two wreckage sites, located in a semirural bushland area about 55 miles southwest of Sydney, on foot. One plane had burst into
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At least 50 people have been killed in a single attack by Sudanese paramilitaries who have besieged and raided villages in Al-Jazira state, activists said. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been at war with Sudan’s regular army since April 2023 but have in recent days intensified their
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Iran warned on Saturday it would defend itself after Israeli air strikes killed at least two soldiers and further stoked fears of a full-scale regional war in the Middle East. Israel warned Iran would “pay a heavy price” if it responded to the strikes, and the United States, Germany and
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Cyclone Dana uprooted trees and power lines after making landfall on India’s east coast, with officials warning of more fierce weather on Friday. Cyclones — the equivalent of hurricanes in the North Atlantic or typhoons in the northwestern Pacific — are a regular and deadly menace in the northern Indian Ocean.
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Turkish air strikes on northern Iraq targeting a group affiliated with Turkiye’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) killed five people on Friday, local sources said. The strikes came after a Syria war monitor said Turkish drone strikes had killed 27 civilians in Syria in a 24-hour military escalation, after
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The Israeli military confirmed on Friday that it had struck a border crossing between Syria and Lebanon that it said was being used by Hezbollah to transfer weapons. “Overnight ... the IAF (air force) struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites at the Jousieh border crossing in the northern Bekaa area (of Lebanon)