In Beirut’s southern suburbs on Wednesday, smoke was rising from buildings hit by overnight strikes while young men on mopeds sped along largely empty roads and residents grabbed what they could from their homes, some driving off with mattresses tied to car roofs. Mohammed Sheaito, 31, one of the few…
South Korea has shown off its most powerful ballistic missile for the first time in an annual military parade which signals the country’s readiness to respond to North Korean threats. The Hyunmoo-5 – which analysts say is capable of carrying an 8-tonne conventional warhead that can penetrate deep into the…
The repeated blasts in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Israel has been carrying out air strikes this week, have driven Zeina Nazha and her young daughter to camp on a city beach, seeking safety from the war in Lebanon. She and some others from those suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, are sleeping on…
Israeli air strikes have killed at least 31 people in Gaza, local medics reported. The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it had carried out a strike targeting a Hamas command centre. However, it made no immediate comment on two strikes on two houses that Palestinian health officials said killed…
Crews have airlifted emergency food and water into remote North Carolina towns that were cut off and devastated as tropical storm Helene turned the western part of the state into a “post-apocalyptic” landscape. A hurricane when it slammed into the Florida Gulf coast on Thursday, Helene tore a destructive path…
Two people have died in a rugged mountainous area in central Greece while trying to help firefighters tackle a forest fire that has forced several villages to be evacuated, authorities have said. The fire near Corinth, 140 kilometres (87 miles) west of Athens, was still burning on Monday, fanned by…
Israeli protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv, calling for the government to refocus on securing the release of captives from Gaza as the military killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday in an offensive in Lebanon. Those critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government argue that efforts should…
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has been killed, dealing a seismic blow to the Lebanese group that has been engaged in a year of crossborder hostilities with Israel. Hezbollah’s statement on Saturday came shortly after Israel’s military said it had killed Nasrallah in an air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs –…
An Israeli air attack on a school sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza has killed at least 15 people. The Israeli military confirmed it struck the school in the Jabalia refugee camp, claiming it was targeting Hamas fighters. The bombing on Thursday brought the number of people killed…
Israel launched hundreds of air attacks in southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, killing more than 274 people, as the Israeli military called on residents to immediately evacuate places where it claimed that Hezbollah stores weapons. Thousands of people fled southern Lebanon, jamming the main highway to Beirut. At least…
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