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World
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10/15/2024 11:01:00 PM
Israel's military launched strikes Tuesday on eastern Lebanon, official Lebanese media reported, as Hezbollah fought Israeli soldiers after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed no mercy for the group.
The premier's pledge on Monday came a day after a drone attack by Hezbollah on an Israeli base killed four soldiers, while another 60 people were wounded.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
10/15/2024 10:38:49 PM
High-level talks on the spillover from the Israeli wars on Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon have been taking place in Cairo this week, reports Dina Ezzat
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World
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10/15/2024 8:54:41 PM
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni warned on Tuesday against withdrawing UN peacekeepers from Lebanon at Israel's unilateral request, as she announced she would visit Lebanon on Friday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/15/2024 8:10:00 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman called for implementing truce measures, including a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, addressing the worsening humanitarian crisis and de-escalating the conflict in the region.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/15/2024 7:05:12 PM
The unprecedented attack by Lebanon’s Hizbullah on an Israeli military base south of Haifa this week, killing at least four Israeli soldiers and wounding more than 60, should be a wake-up call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist cabinet that brutal, indiscriminate force will never achieve his declared goals.
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World
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10/15/2024 5:27:41 PM
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah threatened Tuesday to attack targets across Israel and said it would not be defeated by ongoing intense bombardment of its strongholds and leadership.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/15/2024 5:04:04 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty stressed during a phone call with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock on Tuesday the need to intensify the provision of urgent humanitarian and relief aid to Lebanon amid the displacement of over one million citizens.
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World
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Region
10/15/2024 5:02:08 PM
Lebanon's prime minister said Tuesday his country was ready to bolster the army's presence in the south after any ceasefire, adding Israeli troops were making brief cross-border incursions.
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World
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Region
10/15/2024 2:11:38 PM
The United Nations on Tuesday demanded a "prompt, independent and thorough investigation" into an Israeli strike on the northern Lebanese village of Aito, which it said had killed 22 civilians.
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World
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Region
10/15/2024 11:45:08 AM
More than 400,000 children in Lebanon have been displaced in the past three weeks, a top official with the U.N. children’s agency said late Monday, warning of a “lost generation” in the small country grappling with multiple crises and now in the middle of the Israeli war on Lebanon.
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World
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Region
10/14/2024 10:55:24 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday hit out at the United Nations for failing to prevent Israel from firing at its peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.
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World
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Region
10/14/2024 10:52:57 PM
Hezbollah intensified its retaliatory attacks on Israel on Monday, launching rockets and missiles on Israeli military encampments, barracks, and troop groupings amid intense Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
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World
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Region
10/14/2024 10:47:00 PM
The International Committee for the Red Cross called on Monday for Lebanon's health care system to be protected after reports that Israeli strikes hit medical staff during Israel's attacks.
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World
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Region
10/14/2024 9:35:34 PM
As the Israeli war on Lebanon escalates, a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, is increasingly in the crosshairs, with Israeli troops firing at the peacekeepers' headquarters and positions several times in the past week.
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World
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Region
10/14/2024 8:24:50 PM
The European Union condemned the Israeli attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and rejected allegations that UN Secretary-General António Guterres is responsible for obstructing the Israeli army.
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World
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Region
10/14/2024 8:15:25 PM
An Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in northern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 21 people, according to the Lebanese Red Cross.
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World
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Region
10/14/2024 7:18:36 PM
When volunteer Lebanese rescue worker Aya Wehbeh was called to respond to an Israeli strike in central Beirut last week, she was terrified it had hit her family home.
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World
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Region
10/14/2024 5:17:26 PM
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday said there would be "no withdrawal" of the UN peacekeeping force from southern Lebanon after Israeli attacks and calls to leave.
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World
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Region
10/14/2024 3:41:36 PM
Iran has stopped indirect talks with the United States in Oman as tensions remain high over a possible Israeli retaliatory strike on Tehran over an earlier missile attack, Iran’s foreign minister said Monday.
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World
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Region
10/14/2024 3:00:47 PM
Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin is accusing Israel of trying to prevent the world from seeing what its troops are doing in Lebanon and Gaza, and of working to undermine the United Nations.
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