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 Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that…
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‘There will be a lot of deaths’: Israelis living near Lebanese border fear tit-for-tat escalation
by adminYair Pinhas grew up hiking in the hills around Kiryat Shmona, his hometown in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon. “We always thought that the October 7 (attack) would…
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The fate of a possible successor to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is unclear following an Israeli airstrike on Beirut. Safieddine is a maternal cousin of Nasrallah – the two studied…
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Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon the ‘most intense aerial campaign’ outside Gaza in last two decades
by adminIsrael has pummeled Lebanon with an unprecedented airstrike campaign in less than three weeks, killing over 1,400 people, injuring nearly 7,500 others and displacing more than one million people from their…
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Hezbollah leader agreed to temporary ceasefire days before assassination, says Lebanese foreign minister
by adminThe temporary ceasefire was called for by US President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and other allies during last week’s UN General Assembly. “He [Nasrallah] agreed, he agreed,”…
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A Cambodian maid was arrested and deported by Malaysia for criticizing Cambodian leaders on social media
by adminA Cambodian woman who worked as a maid in Malaysia has been deported to her homeland for comments she posted on social media criticizing Cambodian government leaders, in the latest…
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Massacre in Burkina Faso left 600 dead, double previous estimates, according to French security assessment
by adminEditor’s note: This story contains a graphic image and descriptions of violence. Up to 600 people were shot dead in a matter of hours by al Qaeda-linked militants in an…
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More than a dozen tigers were incinerated after the animals contracted bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam, officials said. State media VNExpress cited a caretaker at Vuon Xoai zoo in Bien…
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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un threatens to destroy the South with nuclear weapons if provoked
by adminNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to use nuclear weapons to destroy South Korea if attacked, state media reported Friday, after South Korea’s president warned that if the North…
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A Singapore court charged a property billionaire on Friday with obstructing justice and abetting offenses by a disgraced ex-transport minister jailed a day earlier in the city-state’s high-profile government graft case. Ong Beng Seng,…