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President Joe Biden declared in his final address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday (September 24, 2024) that the U.S. must not retreat from the world, as Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon edged toward all-out war and Israel’s bloody operation against Hamas in Gaza neared the one-year mark. Mr. Biden used his wide-ranging…
President Joe Biden addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at the U.N. headquarters. | Photo Credit: AP US President Joe Biden on Tuesday (September 24, 2024) urged all countries to cut off weapons supplies to rival generals in Sudan, as the UN chief said he regretted…
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China is urging its citizens in Lebanon and Israel to evacuate or move to safe areas as the conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah is escalating. “Chinese citizens in Lebanon should take commercial flights to return to China or otherwise leave Lebanon as soon as possible for their own safety,” the Consular Department of China’s…
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U.S. is sending more troops to the Middle East The U.S. is sending additional troops to the Middle East during a sharp spike in violence between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon that has raised the risk of a greater regional war, the Pentagon said Monday (September 23, 2024). Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat…
Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes on villages in the Nabatiyeh district, seen from the southern town of Marjayoun, Lebanon, on September 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Lebanon’s Health Ministry says a wave of Israeli airstrikes across the country on Monday (September 23, 2024) have killed 50 people and wounded more than 300. The Ministry…
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A man holds his hand while in the sight of two Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Qabatiya during a raid, Thursday, Sept.19, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli soldiers pushed three apparently lifeless bodies from rooftops during a raid in the northern part of the occupied West Bank on Thursday (September 19,…
Smoke rises near the Israel-Lebanon border, after Hezbollah fired projectiles towards Israel from Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in northern Israel, September 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Lebanese Health Ministry said a child was among three people killed in an Israeli strike in the country’s south on Thursday (September…
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Israeli soldiers are seen during an army raid in Tubas, West Bank, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A 24-year-old Indian-origin Israeli soldier from the Bnei Menashe community was killed in a vehicle-ramming attack close to the West Bank’s Beit El settlement, community members said on Thursday (September 12, 2024). Staff Sergeant…
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Israel’s Defence Minister says the window is closing on an opportunity to reach a temporary cease-fire deal with the Hamas militant group that he believes could also bring calm to the country’s volatile northern border with Lebanon. Speaking to reporters, Yoav Gallant said that conditions are ripe for at least a six-week pause in fighting…
A person tries to remove debris as a woman looks on following a several day-long Israeli-raid, in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, September 6, 2024. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday (September 7, 2024) morning, hospital and local authorities…