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Israel strikes kill 52 in Lebanon as Hezbollah targets south Israel
Lebanon said Israeli strikes Thursday on the country’s east and south killed 52 people, as raids also hit south Beirut and Hezbollah ...Heavy gunfire erupts in South Sudan capital of Juba
Heavy gunfire erupted in South Sudan’s capital Juba on Thursday evening after security forces moved to arrest the former head of the ...Russia fired new ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
By Anastasiia Malenko, Tom Balmforth and Max Hunder Reuters Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro ...Palestinians welcome ICC arrest warrants for Israeli PM and former defense minister
The Palestinian Authority and militant group Hamas both welcomed the International Criminal Court’s arrests warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ...Greece general strike brings thousands onto streets, halts shipping, transport
BY ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS AP Thousands of workers marched through the Greek capital Athens on Wednesday as part of a ...Sudanese who escaped from war-torn Tuti island speak of hunger, disease
Muhammad Awad and his family are among dozens who escaped Sudan’s Tuti island earlier this year amid a siege by the Rapid ...Ukraine reportedly fires UK-made Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for first time
Ukraine has fired long-range British Storm Shadow missiles into Russian territory for the first time, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed ...More than 200 children killed in Lebanon in past two months, UNICEF says
More than 200 children have been killed and 1,100 injured in Lebanon in the past two months, the U.N. children’s agency (UNICEF) ...Russia warns Ukraine’s ATACMS attacks mark ‘new phase’ of war
Russia has said that Ukraine’s use of long-range ATACMS missiles against its territory marked a “new phase of the Western war” against Moscow, and ...Germany, Finland warn of ‘hybrid warfare’ after sea cable cut
Germany and Finland launched a probe Monday after an undersea cable linking the countries was severed, warning of the threat of “hybrid ...