(Reuters) – Hezbollah’s operations room said on Wednesday its fighters had killed more than 70 Israeli troops in its clashes with Israeli forces, updating from a statement last week saying 55 were killed. It did not say in what time frame they were killed. Israel has said it has lost around 20 soldiers inside Lebanon …
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By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -A shootout near the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state killed 19 suspected gang members, while one local cartel leader was arrested, Mexico’s defense ministry said on Tuesday, as intra-cartel violence intensifies. The deadly altercation on Monday took place about 7 miles (11 km) outside the Sinaloa capital of Culiacan, …
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By Amanda Perobelli and Lais Morais SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian street artist Mundano’s latest work incorporates ash from forest fires and mud from flooding in Brazil to create a giant mural pleading for a stop to deforestation. The mural was inaugurated on Wednesday on the side of an 11-floor building in the center of Latin …
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By Phil Stewart ROME (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that failure by Israel to safeguard civilians in Gaza could create a generational backlash and create more anti-Israel insurgents in the future. Speaking to reporters in Rome, Austin said he raises the need to address the humanitarian needs of civilians in every …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hashem Safieddine, whose killing was confirmed by Hezbollah on Wednesday, briefly helped run Lebanon’s strongest military and political force as the presumed successor to its slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, until he, too, was tracked down by Israel. His death marked Israel’s latest heavy blow to Hezbollah, a now weakened organisation facing its …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hashem Safieddine, the top Hezbollah official widely expected to succeed slain secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli attack, the group said Wednesday. Hezbollah confirmed that Safieddine was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Safieddine had been running Hezbollah alongside its deputy secretary general Naim Qassem since Nasrallah’s assassination and was …
By Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon will need $250 million a month to help more than a million people displaced by Israeli attacks, its minister in charge of responding to the crisis said on Tuesday, ahead of a conference on Thursday in Paris to rally support for Lebanon. Nasser Yassin told Reuters the government …
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By Sergio de Moraes PORTO JOFRE, Brazil (Reuters) – They call him Bold and he is Brazil’s most famous jaguar, seen on social media diving into rivers to capture a caiman and wrestle his prey ashore. Bold and his fellow jaguars are surviving the worst fires to engulf the world’s largest tropical wetlands in central-western …
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ROME (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that he had not seen evidence that there was a Hezbollah bunker filled with cash built under a hospital in Beirut, adding that Washington would continue to work with Israel to get better insights. Israel’s military said that Hezbollah has stashed hundreds of millions …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Foreign Ministry was targeted by a severe cyber attack on Wednesday, coinciding with the major BRICS summit taking place in the country, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. Earlier Zakharova said that the ministry had been targeted by a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). “A massive cyberattack from abroad began this morning …
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