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Iran Threatens Of “Even Stronger” Retaliation To Any Israeli Attack

October 5, 2024 admin

Damascus: Tehran’s top diplomat in Damascus on Saturday threatened an “even stronger” reaction to any aggression, as Israel readied its response to an Iranian missile attack earlier this week. “Our reaction to any attack by the Zionist regime is completely clear,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told reporters in the Syrian capital, where he met top…

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French PM Emmanuel Macron urges halt to arms deliveries to Israel for use in Gaza

October 5, 2024 admin

French President Emmanuel Macron. File | Photo Credit: Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday urged a halt to arms deliveries to Israel, which has been criticised over the conduct of its retaliatory operation in Gaza. “I think that today, the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering weapons…

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Hezbollah source says contact ‘lost’ with top figure Safieddine

October 5, 2024 admin

File photo of Hashem Safieddine. | Photo Credit: AFP A high-level Hezbollah source said on Saturday (October 5, 2024) that contact with Hashem Safieddine, widely touted as potentially the group’s next leader, had been lost following Israeli strikes this week. “Contact with Sayyed Safieddine has been lost since the violent strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs”…

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This City Has Been Voted World’s Best For Its “Unique, Indoor-Outdoor Way Of Life”

October 5, 2024 admin

Sydney has been named the world’s best city in a survey conducted by Conde Nast Traveller. The top-10 global cities rankings are part of the publication’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards for 2024, which launched on October 1 in the UK. Sydney, which ranked no. 1 with a score of 92.26, was praised by the Conde…

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Greta Thunberg Detained In Brussels For Blocking Road During Protest

October 5, 2024 admin

The rally was calling for the European Union to end subsidies on Fossil Fuels. Brussels: Climate activist Greta Thunberg was among dozens of protesters detained Saturday for blocking a road in the Belgian capital at a demonstration against fossil fuel subsidies. An AFP journalist saw the iconic Swede — who has previously been detained for…

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Hezbollah Heir Apparent Out Of Contact After Israeli Air Strikes: Report

October 5, 2024 admin

Beirut/Jerusalem: The potential successor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been out of contact since Friday, a Lebanese security source told Reuters on Saturday, after an Israeli airstrike that is reported to have targeted him. In its campaign against the Iran-backed Lebanese group, Israel carried out a large strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs late…

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S Jaishankar On PM Narendra Modi’s Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky Meetings

October 5, 2024 admin

S Jaishankar said the world leaders were supportive of what India was doing. (FILE) New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meetings with the top leaders of Russia and Ukraine were “beginnings of a communication process” between two countries engaged in a serious conflict that has had enormous consequences, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on…

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China says it evacuated 215 nationals from Lebanon

October 5, 2024 admin

China said Saturday (October 5, 2024) that it has evacuated 215 of its nationals from Lebanon, where Israel has been carrying out intense bombardments since last month, resulting in over 1,100 deaths. This week, Israel said its troops launched “ground raids” into parts of southern Lebanon, a stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah, following days of heavy strikes…

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Climate Change Activists Pretend To Drown Themselves In Oil Outside UN Agency In London

October 5, 2024 admin

Climate protesters have become a daily sight on London’s streets, undeterred by the honking horns of irate motorists, personal insults and even arrests. This time, Ocean Rebellion campaigners pretended to drown themselves in oil and gas in a protest outside a United Nations agency in London. The climate change activists staged the frightening demonstration on…

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Israel hits Beirut’s southern suburbs with 12 airstrikes and striking a Palestinian refugee camp

October 5, 2024 admin

Smoke rises over Beirut’s southern suburbs, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon on October 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel expanded its bombardment in Lebanon on Saturday (October 5, 2024), hitting Beirut’s southern suburbs with 12 airstrikes and striking a Palestinian refugee camp deep…

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