Israeli protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv, calling for the government to refocus on securing the release of captives from Gaza as the military killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday in an offensive in Lebanon. Those critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government argue that efforts should be concentrated on freeing those […]
Israeli strikes on Friday, which are now known to have killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, concluded a week of Israeli strikes on southern areas of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas has been analysing numerous videos shot from multiple vantage points to investigate the incident. Lebanese officials say 11 people were killed and
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Assassination of Hezbollah head is the culmination of a series of major Israeli attacks on the group’s leaders. He led Hezbollah for more than three decades and made it into a military and political force to be reckoned with in the longrunning conflict in the Middle East. Hassan Nasrallah’s killing in a massive Israeli air
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Report on abuse cases faults retired pope New report faults retired Pope Benedict for handling of sexual abuse cases in German diocese 01:41 A British clergyman died after a night of sex and drugs with a Belgian priest who has since been arrested on drug-related charges, Belgian authorities said on Saturday. The 69-year-old, who has
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Police say a manhunt has been launched after the attack in the southeast of the country, were mass shootings have lately become common. Seventeen people, including 15 women, have been killed in two houses in close proximity to each other in a rural town in South Africa, according to the police. A search was under
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Israel reverts to its wartime playbook as it manufactures consent for all-out war on Lebanon. In the past couple of weeks, the low-intensity war that Israel and Hezbollah have been fighting across the Lebanon-Israel border for a year has metastasised. Thousands of Lebanese have been forced from their homes as Israeli bombardment has intensified. More
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Sudan’s army made some gains in the capital Khartoum this week. Sudan’s army now controls three important bridges in and out of the capital. But heavy fighting continues in central Khartoum. The war has created one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises. Sudan’s army chief says the paramilitary forces it has been fighting must withdraw
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The US Navy intercepted a barrage of Houthi missiles and drones launched at three of its warships in the Red Sea on Thursday, two US defense officials said. The attack was one of the largest yet on US warships in the Middle East, one of the officials told CNN. The barrage was launched at the USS
The commandos came in helicopters, on a nearly moonless night. The guards outside the secret weapons lab in northwestern Syria had already been killed in a short series of airstrikes when the thrumming of Israeli Air Force helicopters approached. At first the Sept. 8 strike seemed like many others carried out by Israel, which had
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Sri Lanka’s Kamindu Mendis enters the record books with a century in the second Test against New Zealand in Galle. Sri Lankan middle-order batsman Kamindu Mendis stormed into the record books in Galle on Friday when he became just the fourth cricketer to make 1,000 runs inside 13 Test innings. The 25-year-old has played just
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