The Israeli military has struck Beirut twice since the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon came into force on 16 April, most recently on Thursday. But that is a reduction on what went before, with reports that the White House has been pressuring
Lebanon was drawn into the war between the US and Israel on one side, and Iran on the other, on 2 March, when Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel in retaliation for an Israeli strike that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Israel
However, his combative transport minister, Óscar Puente, appeared to make a broader point about the investigations cornering the Socialists when he said “there is a government that some want to bring down, not through the ballot box, but with other dark arts,
George Osborn, author of “Power Play: Video Games, Politics and the Battle for Global Influence” told the BBC the setting was “likely to attract scrutiny” in the territory and pointed to previous games, such as Homefront, which depicted a unified Korea under
The Israeli military has also said a strike on a car in Khan Younis on Tuesday killed Ihab Khrizim, the head of a Hamas funds transfer network, and Mohammed al-Habash, a unit commander in Hamas’s production headquarters who was said to have
A statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet said: “As part of the joint operation by the IDF and Shin Bet to eliminate the terrorist Mohammed Odeh, several buildings in the heart of Gaza City that served as a
According to US media, the possible deal is not a final settlement, but a memorandum of understanding that reportedly involves a 60-day ceasefire extension, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and a plan for further negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme.
CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, has reported that US intelligence believes Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei – who was injured in an Israeli strike on the first day of the war which killed his father and predecessor – is holed up
At least 82 people have been killed and two are missing after a coal mine blast in northern China, officials have said. The gas explosion at the Liushenyu Coal Mine is the worst mining disaster in China since 2009, and Chinese President
The same day, the African Centres for Disease Control warned 10 other countries on the continent were at risk of being affected: Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia.