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Hezbollah says will only accept ‘suitable’ truce as Israel pounds Baalbek
30 October 2024Hezbollah’s new leader, Naim Qassem, says that the group will keep fighting in its war with Israel until it is offered...
Haiti’s gangs inflict ‘extreme brutality’ as casualties rise
30 October 2024An escalating gang war in Haiti killed or injured 1,745 people between July and September, according to a new United Nat...
Israel, Haiti top CPJ list of states where journalist murders go unpunished
30 October 2024Israel is the world’s second-worst offender after Haiti in letting the murder of journalists go unpunished, according ...
Angered over BRICS veto, Venezuela recalls ambassador to Brazil
30 October 2024Venezuela has pulled its ambassador from Brazil in a spat over Caracas’s failed recent bid to join the BRICS alliance ...
Prosecutors push for 17-year sentence for Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira
30 October 2024United States prosecutors will seek a 17-year prison term for an airman who admitted to leaking hundreds of highly class...
Military interaction with N Korea doesn’t breach int’l law: Russia UN envoy
30 October 2024Russia’s military interaction with North Korea does not violate international law, the country’s representative to t...
Continued conflict leaves Myanmar mired in crisis: UN
30 October 2024Myanmar is mired in crisis as conflict escalates, with criminal networks “out of control” and human suffering at unp...
US election: 6 days left – What polls say, what Harris and Trump are up to
30 October 2024With just one week remaining until the US election, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to supporters from the Ellipse in...
Photos: Death and destruction as torrential rains lash Spain
30 October 2024Flash floods have killed several people in Spain, as the east of the country is lashed by torrential rain. Several bodie...
What do we know about Hezbollah’s new leader, Naim Qassem?
30 October 2024Hezbollah’s new secretary-general is Naim Qassem, the longtime number two to the late Hassan Nasrallah who was assassi...