U.N. chief tells world leaders that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are creating an “unsustainable” world
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. chief tells world leaders that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are creating an “unsustainable” world.
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The TelegraphIDF assassinates right-hand man of Hamas leader Sinwar
Israel has said it has assassinated the “right-hand man” of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
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'Kill him first': Israel eyes top level targets
After the killing of Hezbollah's leader in Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted Israel had "settled the score".- 'Massive degrading' - Netanyahu defended targeted killings days ago by quoting the Talmud, the central text of Judaism: "He who comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first."
- The Independent
Buried Second World War bomb explodes at Japanese airport – everything we know so far
A Japan Airlines flight with 93 people on board passed the site just a few minutes before the explosive detonated
- The Independent
What are Israel and Iran’s attack and defence capabilities?
The two bitter regional enemies are on the brink of all-out war
- CNN
‘I don’t have the energy to be displaced again’: Lebanon’s capital reels after Israeli strikes
When Israel struck the center of Beirut in the early hours of Thursday, it seemed to wipe out what little sense of safety remained in the Lebanese capital.
- CNN
Massacre in Burkina Faso left 600 dead, double previous estimates, according to French security assessment
The new figure would make the assault, in which civilians were shot dead as they dug trenches to defend the remote town of Barsalogho, one of the deadliest single attacks in Africa in recent decades.
- The Independent
Israel and Hezbollah clash in fierce fighting in Lebanon as Netanyahu vows Iran ‘will pay’ for missile attack
‘Significant’ response expected in days after eight Israeli soldiers killed as fighting intensifies on the ground in Lebanon
- Reuters
Exclusive-Gulf states sought to reassure Iran of their neutrality in Iran-Israel conflict, sources say
Gulf Arab states sought to reassure Iran of their neutrality in the conflict between Tehran and Israel in meetings in Doha this week on the back of concerns that a wider escalation in violence could threaten their oil facilities, two sources told Reuters. Ministers from Gulf Arab states and Iran attending a meeting of Asian nations hosted by Qatar centred their conversations around de-escalation, the sources said. The Islamic Republic launched its largest ever assault on Israel on Tuesday in what it said was retaliation for Israel's assassination of senior Hamas and Hezbollah leaders and its operations in Gaza and Lebanon.
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Taliban's battle with IS opens door to foreign cooperation
Afghanistan's Islamic State group is staging a growing number of bloody international attacks, presenting a rare but complicated opportunity for foreign cooperation with the Taliban government to counter the jihadists.Since winning their own insurgency in defiance of the international community three years ago, the Taliban government has been plagued by attacks by the Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K).
- Reuters
Israel kills Hamas militant once jailed for role in West Bank lynchings
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel has killed Abdel-Aziz Salha, a West Bank Hamas militant who had been jailed for life for taking part in the lynching of two Israeli reservists in Ramallah in 2000 but later deported to Gaza in a prisoner swap, Hamas media and medics said. Salha was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent inside Al-Aklouk School, which shelters displaced Palestinians, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip earlier on Thursday, medics said. The 2000 incident took place in Ramallah in the West Bank, where the reservists were seized at a Palestinian checkpoint, brought to a police station and set upon by a mob that choked and beat them to death.
- CNN
Yazidi woman captured by ISIS rescued in Gaza after more than a decade in captivity
A 21-year-old Yazidi woman has been rescued from Gaza where she had been held captive by Hamas for years after being trafficked by ISIS.
- The Telegraph
Hezbollah has not committed violence, Lebanese ambassador tells BBC
The Lebanese ambassador to the UK has claimed that “Hezbollah has not been committing violence”.
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Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon the ‘most intense aerial campaign’ outside Gaza in last two decades
Israel has pummeled Lebanon with an unprecedented airstrike campaign over the last two weeks, killing over 1,400 people, injuring nearly 7,500 others and displacing more than one million people from their homes, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
- The Hill
Democratic senator worried Netanyahu trying to ‘influence’ US election
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) says he’s worried Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be trying to influence the U.S. presidential election by showing little interest in striking a peace deal with Hamas and instead escalating the threat of a broader war in the Middle East by aggressively confronting Hezbollah in Lebanon. Murphy acknowledged that the…
- CNN
October 7 music festival survivor, IDF reservist hailed as a ‘hero’ after confronting shooters in Tel Aviv attack
An Israeli military reservist who survived the Nova festival massacre has been hailed as a “hero” by the country’s security minister, for confronting two gunmen behind Tuesday’s shooting and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv.
- Associated Press
Pakistan capital locked down to thwart a rally to support ex-leader Imran Khan
Authorities suspended cellphone service and blocked key roads into Pakistan’s capital with shipping containers Friday to try to thwart a rally by tens of thousands of activists seeking the release of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan’s supporters were trying to march on Islamabad from the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where Khan’s party holds power, defying a ban on rallies imposed this week by the national government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
- Reuters
Civilians bear brunt in 'catastrophic' Lebanon conflict, UN official says
Civilians are bearing the brunt of a "truly catastrophic" situation in Lebanon, a senior U.N. official said, urging respect for the rules of war nearly two weeks since Israel launched a major offensive against the armed group Hezbollah. With around 1 million people in Lebanon impacted, Imran Riza, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, said the pace of displacement since Sept. 23 had exceeded worst case scenarios, and too much damage was being done to civilian infrastructure. "What we saw from Sept. 23 on is truly catastrophic," Riza said in an interview with Reuters on Thursday.
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At least eight IDF soldiers killed during Israeli incursion into Lebanon
Israel reported on Wednesday eight deaths on the first day of its ground incursion into southern Lebanon on Wednesday. Following Israel's assassination of long time leader Hassan Nasrallah last week, the group said it was weakened but still had the firepower to push Israel back
- Sky News
Lebanon: Six people killed in Israeli strike on Beirut block of flats, health ministry says
Six people have been killed and at least eight injured in an airstrike in Beirut, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. The building, in the Bachoura area of the capital, is close to Lebanon's parliament and the United Nations headquarters. It is the second time this week Israel has struck the city.
- Associated Press
Middle East latest: An Israeli airstrike cuts a major highway linking Lebanon with Syria
An Israeli airstrike has cut off a main highway linking Lebanon with Syria, leaving two huge craters on either side of the road. The airstrike Friday rendered the road unusable for cars, leaving people to go on foot to the Masnaa Border Crossing where tens of thousands of people fleeing war in Lebanon have crossed into Syria in the past two weeks. Israel this week began a ground incursion into Lebanon against the Hezbollah militant group while also conducting strikes in Gaza.