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The Group of Seven foreign ministers began their two-day talks in Italy on Monday, with the first day’s sessions focusing on the Middle East amid tensions between Israel and Iran. On the second day of the meeting, discussions are likely to center on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now involving North Korean troops, and the situation […]
11/23/2024November 23, 2024 Israeli airstrike kills at least four in central Beirut An Israeli airstrike killed at least four people and wounded 23 others in central Beirut early Saturday, Lebanese authorities said. “Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five […]
Netanyahu’s office: ICC ruling is ‘absurd and false lies’ and ‘antisemitic’ In his first response to the ICC issuing a warrant for his arrest on allegations of war crimes, Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has described the ruling as “absurd and false lies” and said the decision is “antisemitic.” Benjamin Netanyahu’s office say they categorically reject the […]
Ukraine used US Atacms missiles to strike Russian territory on Tuesday, taking advantage of newly granted permission from the outgoing Biden administration on the war’s 1,000th day. Source link
The US Navy’s sole aircraft carrier in the Middle East left the region over the weekend. The USS Abraham Lincoln spent months operating there, joining the counter-Houthi fight. The US is now without a carrier in the volatile Middle East for the first time in a while. The US Navy is again without an aircraft […]
An Israeli airstrike killed four people in a central Beirut neighbourhood on Monday, said Lebanon’s health ministry, the second day in a row Israel has hit a target within the capital as it presses its campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah. Source link
Israeli airstrikes targeted a neighborhood in the heart of Lebanon’s capital late Monday evening, slamming into an area near the Parliament, several embassies and the U.N. headquarters, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency. Ambulance sirens echoed through the area in Beirut, and Lebanon’s Health Ministry said at least four people were killed and 18 […]
“The hard truth is that in times of global turmoil, it is always those who have the least, who are hurt the most,” he says in draft extracts from a formal intervention he will make during one of the first sessions of the summit on Monday. “We see that in the shocking loss of innocent […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature The Israeli army said it had attacked militant targets near Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, where 30 people have been killed. “There have been ongoing terrorist activities in the area of Beit Lahia… Overnight, several strikes were conducted” on militant targets […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature A Beirut property developer is one among many wealthy Lebanese people denied access to their fortunes by banks after a financial crisis and now left reeling from effects of Israel’s airstrikes, Ruth Michaelson reports for the Observer: Ibrahim Abdallah and his […]