Lebanon said Israeli strikes Thursday on the country’s east and south killed 52 people, as raids also hit south Beirut and Hezbollah claimed its deepest attack on Israel in over a year.More than 11 months of cross-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah over the Gaza conflict escalated into all-out war in September, with Israel conducting …
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Successive Israeli strikes pummelled Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold on Thursday as authorities said raids in eastern Lebanon killed 22 people, and Hezbollah claimed its deepest attack on Israel in more than a year of hostilities.Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) reported at least 12 strikes, some of them “very violent”, on Beirut’s southern suburbs throughout …
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The Palestinian Authority and militant group Hamas both welcomed the International Criminal Court’s arrests warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister over the Gaza war.”The State of Palestine welcomed the decision” to issue the warrants against Netanyahu and ex-defence minister Yoav Gallant, the Palestinian Authority said in a statement published …
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Senegal’s ruling party won over three-quarters of parliamentary seats in weekend elections, according to national provisional results announced Thursday, potentially handing them the means to deliver their ambitious reform agenda.President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s Pastef party secured 130 seats in the west African country’s 165-seat national assembly, according to an AFP tally of figures given by …
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A former Serbian government minister and 11 others were arrested Thursday over the deadly collapse of a train station roof three weeks ago in which 15 people died.The tragedy in the northern city of Novi Sad has fuelled a wave of anger in the Balkan nation, with many blaming the deaths on rampant corruption and …
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Brazilian police on Thursday called for the indictment of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro over a 2022 “coup” plot to prevent current leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva taking office.A police statement said its investigators concluded that Bolsonaro and 36 others planned the “violent overthrow of the democratic state.” “Federal police concluded on Thursday the investigation into the …
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As global climate negotiators seek to eke out progress, participants say they are witnessing backsliding in one unexpected area — gender.Previous climate summits, like many UN events, have spoken routinely of the need to involve women, who studies say are facing a disproportionate burden from the planet’s rising temperatures and disasters.But at COP29 in Azerbaijan, …
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Funerals were held Thursday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin after Israeli forces killed three Palestinians during a raid in the area.Violence in the West Bank has soared since the war in Gaza erupted on October 7 last year after Hamas’s attack on Israel, and since then Israeli forces have mounted several raids …
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Diplomats meeting in Vienna on Thursday are to discuss a resolution condemning Iran for insufficient cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, as Tehran warned it would swiftly respond once it passed.Earlier this week, European powers and the United States formally submitted a censure motion critical of Iran to the board of governors of the International …
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Volkswagen workers in Germany took a step closer to strike action on Thursday, after unions and management met for the third round of talks over the ailing carmaker’s drastic cost-cutting plans.Despite progress in the negotiations, representatives from the IG Metall union indicated they would move to start “warning strikes” from December 1.Volkswagen, whose brands range …
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