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Hezbollah, defying calls from allies including the US for a halt in fighting. Israeli warplanes bombarded Lebanon, including a strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut that shook the capital. On its own side of the border, the Israeli army staged an exercise simulating a ground invasion. The relentless pressure on Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, including intense airstrikes and assassinations of some of its senior commanders, raised concern that of a wider war spreading across the region. The military, which has vowed to secure Israel's northern border and return thousands of Israeli citizens to communities there, said the exercise of its 7th brigade took place a few kilometres from the Lebanese border.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Hezbollah is dealing with some disagreement among its ranks over how to respond to a series of devastating attacks on the Lebanese militant group, according to people familiar with the group’s deliberations. With no good options available, the group faces one of the most consequential decisions in its four-decade history.

Donald Trump's campaign on Iranian threats against the Republican presidential nominee, adding that the briefing centered on previously reported threats and not a new plot, as per a report on AP. US Secret Service boosted Trump's security protection in July following news of an Iranian threat on his life. Iranian hackers also stole information they retrieved from Trump's campaign. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that officials have been tracking Iranian threats against a number of officials including Trump and some who serve in President Joe Biden 's administration. The attention to Iranian threats comes at a sensitive moment in the campaign following two assassination attempts targeting Trump. There's no evidence though connecting these events to Iran.

Donald Trump could land in a major fix now after Iranian hackers breached into secure servers and stole multiple documents that included some of the former President's most embarrassing secrets. This is like a complete onslaught by Iranian hackers on Donald Trump, that is going on for more than 10 days now, with more and more documents starting to get compromised each passing day. The Republican Presidential candidate is now furious at this sudden attack on him and has lashed out in anger.

Former US President Donald Trump’s advisers have already started all sorts of preparations to constitute the executive branch which will be pretty important if Donald Trump ends up winning the US Presidential Elections 2024. Searching for potential job candidates and compiling a dedicated team is going on in full swing, noted NBC News. Also Read :Payback time? Trump's embarrassing documents stolen by Iranian hackers; he cheered when Russia hacked Hillary Clinton's emails

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The war in West Asia has intensified. With its Gaza operations against Hamas not yet over, Israel has aimed its firepower at Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia based in Lebanon to its north.

US intelligence has warned Donald Trump about «real and specific» threats from Iran to assassinate him. In response, Trump, the Republican candidate, announced that the US would take strong action against Iran if such an event occurred. In a post on Truth Social, Trump stated, «If they do 'assassinate President Trump,' which is always a possibility, I hope that America obliterates Iran, wipes it off the face of the Earth — If that does not happen, American Leaders will be considered 'gutless' cowards!» Trump's campaign also claimed that Iran intends to destabilize the upcoming US presidential elections. Steven Cheung, Trump's campaign communications director, said in a statement, «President Trump was briefed earlier today by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States.»

Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday pressed Iran's new president to use his influence to dial down soaring tensions in Lebanon, where Israel is striking Tehran-backed Hezbollah. Macron met with Masoud Pezeshkian, a self-styled reformist in a cleric-run state which Israel sees as its archenemy, on the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly as casualties mounted in Lebanon. Macron «highlighted the responsibility of Iran to support a general de-escalation and use its influence with destabilizing actors,» an Elysee statement said, in a clear reference to Hezbollah.

Ukraine's president dismissed the notion of peace talks with Moscow on Tuesday, calling instead for unspecified global «action» to force Russia into peace for invading his country and to comply with the U.N. Charter's requirement that every country respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all other nations. Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the U.N. Security Council that Russian President Vladimir Putin is committing «an international crime» and has broken so many international rules that he won't stop on his own. «And that's why this war can't simply fade away. That's why this war can't be calmed by talks,» Zelenskyy said at a meeting on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders at the General Assembly. «Russia can only be forced into peace, and that is exactly what's needed — forcing Russia into peace as the sole aggressor in this war, the sole violator of the U.N. Charter.»

US intelligence has alerted former President Donald Trump about specific threats from Iran to assassinate him, according to a statement from his presidential campaign on Tuesday. “President Trump was briefed earlier today by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States,” said Steven Cheung, Trump campaign communications director. Cheung added that intelligence officials noted increased and coordinated threats in the past few months, and law enforcement agencies are working to ensure Trump’s safety and protect the presidential election from interference.

TikTok has removed accounts associated with Russian state media for engaging in “covert influence operations” on the social media platform ahead of the U.S. presidential election

Iran says it believes the remaining workers trapped by an explosion at a coal mine in the country’s east have died, bringing the death toll in the disaster to at least 49

Sweden says that Iran was behind thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for revenge over the burnings of Quran, Islam's holy book in 2023. Authorities in Stockholm claim that Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard carried out «a data breach» and managed to send «some 15,000 messages text messages in Swedish» over the string of public burnings of the Quran. Senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said that a preliminary investigation, carried out by Sweden's SAPO domestic security agency, showed that «it was the Iranian state via the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, that carried out a data breach at a Swedish company that runs a major SMS service».

China has made several moves in recent months to advance its ambitious aim to become the trade and transportation hub of Asia. To its west, China has agreed to build a rail line across Central Asia. Beijing also said it would help Vietnam plan three rail lines leading to the countries' shared border. And China is trying to persuade Russia and North Korea to let it reopen a long-closed port on the Sea of Japan. If successful, the plans would give China closer ties to the economies of Northeast and Southeast Asia, the Mideast and even the Arctic, the latest steps in its 11-year-old Belt and Road Initiative to create a more China-centered global order.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BEIRUT—Israel launched devastating attacks on Hezbollah in recent days with airstrikes and remote-control explosions that put the Lebanese militant group on the defensive and demonstrated Israel’s vast superiority in intelligence gathering and technology. A ground war between the two, if it occurs, would likely be a different story.

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of more workers killed in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran

Palestinian militant group Hamas carried out the deadliest attack in Israeli history on October 7, 2023, Israel responded with a devastating military campaign in the Gaza Strip. The air and ground operation has killed more than 41,431 people, according to the Hamas-ruled territory's health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations. Ahead of the war's first anniversary, AFP looks back at key moments.

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran has killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others

China, Iran, North Korea and Russia in an open conflict, reported Fox News.

Former US President Donald Trump asserted in a recent speech that the Jewish people in America have a huge part to play in the US Presidential Elections. Forward reported that Donald Trump is going to blame the Jews if he ends up losing the US Presidential Elections. Following that speech, former US President Donald Trump elaborated about his claims which he is making in recent days that if Donald Trump is not going to end up victorious in the November elections then bad days are looming over Israel.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The puzzle of how thousands of pagers were sabotaged in an Israeli attack on Hezbollah this past week has sparked investigations into the supply chain behind them, leading investigators to a labyrinth of shadowy companies and individuals spanning Asia and Eastern Europe. The search for who was behind the manufacturing, sale and distribution of the pagers has pointed to some companies that were created in recent years, with little to no paper trail of their activities and run by mysterious business people with a vague online footprint and little experience in the telecommunications industry.