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Israel hits 300 targets in expanded Lebanon strike campaign against Hezbollah
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern village of Habbouch on September 23, 2024. (Photo by RABIH DAHER/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — The Israeli military expanded [Read More…]
South Korea threatens military response to North Korean ‘trash balloons’
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday that Seoul may respond militarily to any casualties caused by North Korea’s launching of so-called “trash balloons” across the shared border, the state [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: IDF strikes Lebanon after 115 Hezbollah launches
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt on Wednesday for fresh talks on an Israel-Hamas cease-fire, and as tension with Hezbollah persists at the Israel-Lebanon border. Here’s how [Read More…]
Key Hezbollah leader, commanders killed in strike in Beirut, Israel says
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon’s southern village of Kfar Kila on September 20, 2024. — Rabih Daher/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A key Hezbollah commander and his [Read More…]
Israel had hand in manufacturing pagers that exploded in Lebanon: Source
Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Israel had a hand in the manufacturing of pagers that exploded on Hezbollah operatives this week, with this type of “supply chain interdiction” operation having been planned [Read More…]
Conservationists persist in Latin America despite political challenges, experts say
Gaby Oraa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Conservationists in Latin America, home to some of the most important ecosystems in the world, are persisting in their environmental work despite political challenges that can sometimes [Read More…]
UK team performs surgery to fix rhino’s broken leg, an operation they say is world’s 1st
Knowsley Safari Park (LONDON) — A team of over ten vets – including specialist surgeons, anaesthetists, and animal keepers – have on Thursday performed what they described as a ground-breaking world-first surgery on a Rhino [Read More…]
Israel launches strikes on Hezbollah in wake of device explosions
People attending a funeral for victims of Tuesday’s pager attacks in Lebanon react after an explosion in a store, in southern Beirut, Sept. 18, 2024. (ABC News) (LONDON) — Israel launched a series of strikes [Read More…]
Threat of Israel-Hezbollah war looms after Lebanon device explosions
People attending a funeral for victims of Tuesday’s pager attacks in Lebanon react after an explosion in a store, in southern Beirut, Sept. 18, 2024. (ABC News) (LONDON) — The threat of a wider war [Read More…]
Why Brazilian officials want to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A government plan to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists who say the development will cause more wildfires in the region. But for those [Read More…]
20 more dead, 450 injured as new round of explosions rocks Lebanon: Health officials
Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on September 17, 2024. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — At least 20 more people were killed and 450 injured [Read More…]
14 more dead, 450 injured as new round of explosions rocks Lebanon: Health officials
Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on September 17, 2024. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — At least 14 more people were killed and 450 injured [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Israel moves troops to Lebanon border after pager attack
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt on Wednesday for fresh talks on an Israel-Hamas cease-fire, and as tension with Hezbollah persists at the Israel-Lebanon border. Here’s how [Read More…]
Kate Middleton returns to work with meeting at Windsor Castle
Catherine, Princess of Wales attends day fourteen of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 14, 2024 in London. (Karwai Tang/WireImage via Getty Images, FILE) (LONDON) — [Read More…]
What we know about the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria
Ambulances are being dispatched to the area in Beirut, Lebanon while security forces take precautions after at least eight people, including a child, were killed in a mass explosion of wireless communication devices known as [Read More…]
Israel behind pager explosions, sources say, as Hezbollah vows ‘reckoning’
Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on September 17, 2024. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Israel was behind the deadly explosion of pagers across Lebanon [Read More…]
Nine dead, thousands injured after pagers explode across Lebanon: Health officials
KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — At least nine people are dead and over 2,750 people were injured after pager devices owned by a large number of workers in various Hezbollah units and institutions exploded on Tuesday, [Read More…]
US expresses ‘grave’ concern as fighting in Sudan’s El Fasher escalates amid civil war
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (LONDON) — The U.S. said it is “gravely concerned” following a “large-scale escalation” of fighting in El Fasher, capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, amid a civil war that has been raging in [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Blinken to travel to Egypt for fresh talks
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt on Wednesday for fresh talks on an Israel-Hamas cease-fire, and as tension with Hezbollah persists at the Israel-Lebanon border. Here’s how [Read More…]
Israeli defense officials at odds with Netanyahu over Hamas, Hezbollah cease-fire conditions
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (OHAD ZWIGENBERG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (TEL AVIV, Israel) — Officials in Israel’s defense establishment are now strenuously contradicting Israeli [Read More…]