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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.

Hezbollah — deadly attacks pinned on Israel that also maimed civilians across Lebanon. Hezbollah's leader vowed to retaliate, and on Friday the militant group launched a wave of rockets into northern Israel. Later in the day, the commander of Hezbollah's most elite unit was killed in a strike in Beirut that killed dozens more people. The cross-border attacks ramped up early Sunday, with Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Shiite group that is Lebanon's most powerful armed force, launching more than 100 rockets deeper into northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa. Israel launched hundreds of strikes on Lebanon.

Donald Trump said on Monday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wanted the Democrats to win the 2024 U.S. election, in which the former president faces Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate. The Republican presidential candidate's statement on the campaign trail contrasts with the line adopted by some of his allies, who have argued that Ukraine would welcome Trump back as only he — in their telling — has the acumen to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end Moscow's war on Ukraine. «I think Zelenskiy is the greatest salesman in history. Every time he comes into the country, he walks away with 60 billion dollars,» Trump said at a rally in western Pennsylvania. «He wants them to win this election so badly, but I would do differently — I will work out peace.»

Lithuania has signed a deal with U.S. ammunition producer Northrop Grumman as it seeks to increase defense capabilities in the shadow of Russia’s war in Ukraine

the Middle East in response to 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. Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder would provide no details on how many additional forces or what they would be tasked to do. The U.S. currently has about 40,000 troops in the region. “In light of increased tension in the Middle East and out of an abundance of caution, we are sending a small number of additional U.S. military personnel forward to augment our forces that are already in the region. But for operational security reasons, I'm not going to comment on or provide specifics.”

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Indian soldiers who laid down their lives during World War I to liberate the northern Israeli coastal city of Haifa from Ottoman rule has been cancelled due to escalating tensions in West Asia. Israel and Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah have carried out widespread strikes on each other, raising tensions, and prompting Israel Home Front command to issue precautionary advisory to citizens. Outdoor gatherings of up to ten and indoor gatherings of up to a hundred people, close to protected shelters, are currently allowed. «Due to the current situation, the Haifa Day commemoration, planned for September 23, 2024 in Haifa, by the Embassy of India, is being cancelled,» an official communication said.

Disney Publishing have launched three new Audible Originals today, featuring popular stories from Frozen, Cars, and Star Wars. Along with these new releases, Audible now offers 60 audiobooks of classic Disney tales such as Finding Dory, Marvel’s Avengers, Mulan, and Toy Story. These titles are available exclusively on Audible at audible.com/disneykids. The newly released Audible Originals include: Star Wars: Padawan’s Pride, Disney Frozen: Olaf’s Quest, and Disney Pixar Cars: The Legend of the Crystal Hubcap.

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.

Hezbollah launched more than 100 rockets early Sunday across northern Israel, with some landing near the city of Haifa, as Israel launched hundreds of strikes on Lebanon. A Hezbollah leader declared an «open-ended battle of reckoning» was underway as both sides appeared to be spiraling closer toward all-out war. The overnight rocket barrage was in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon that have killed dozens, including a veteran Hezbollah commander, and an unprecedented attack targeting the group's communications devices. Air raid sirens across northern Israel sent hundreds of thousands of people scrambling into shelters. One rocket struck near a residential building in Kiryat Bialik, a city near Haifa, wounding at least three people and setting buildings and cars on fire. Israel's Magen David Adom rescue service said four people were wounded by shrapnel in the barrage.

Quad unveiled major steps to expand maritime security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and called for lasting peace in Ukraine with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserting that the grouping is for a rules-based global order that respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of nations. In the annual Quad summit hosted by outgoing US President Joe Biden at his home state of Delaware, the leaders, without directly naming China, expressed serious concern over the situation in the South China Sea and nearby waters and condemned the «dangerous» use of coast guard and maritime militia vessels in that region. Besides Modi and Biden, the fourth in-person summit on Saturday was attended by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese.

Hezbollah in Lebanon were certainly an espionage and technological coup. Few people on the spot or reading about them from far away could fail to be amazed. But the explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday were also very likely war crimes — terrorist attacks by a state that has consistently condemned terrorist attacks on its own citizens. Yes, the devices most probably were being used by Hezbollah operatives for military purposes. This might make them a legitimate target in the continuous cross-border battles between Israel and Hezbollah. But the attacks, which killed at least 37 people and wounded thousands of others, came when the operatives were not operating; they had not been mobilized and they were not militarily engaged. Rather, they were at home with their families, sitting in cafes, shopping in food markets — among civilians who were randomly killed and injured. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the attacks but is widely believed to be behind them. If those allegations are true, it is important for friends of Israel to say: This was not right.

The rocket barrage overnight sent thousands of people scrambling into shelters. The Israeli military said rockets had been fired «toward civilian areas,» pointing to a possible escalation after previous barrages had mainly been aimed at military targets. The barrage came after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday killed at least 37 people, including one of Hezbollah's top leaders as well as women and children. The militant group was already reeling from a sophisticated attack that caused thousands of personal devices to explode just days earlier.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TEL AVIV : With escalating attacks on Hezbollah’s rank and file, commanders and infrastructure, Israel is pressing its military and intelligence advantage to give the Lebanese group an implied ultimatum: make a deal to pull back from Israel’s northern border, or go to war. Israel is rotating its attention to its border with Lebanon as the Gaza Strip battlefield becomes static, launching an aggressive series of attacks that have devastated Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.

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

Lebanon this week showed that the Israeli government planned to spread the war to the region, Turkey's President Recip Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday, calling on Western countries to take "deterrent steps" against Tel Aviv's actions. Erdogan told a press conference that Israel's war in Gaza will top the agenda of his speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. «In order for our region not to be dragged into a great disaster, the pressure on Israel must be increased even more,» Erdogan told a press conference in Istanbul.

Narendra Modi will once again be on the big stage on Monday when he attends the United Nations Summit of the Future in New York. The idea of the summit emerged in 2021 in recognition of the fact, in the words of the UN Secretary General, that «we cannot continue to tackle 21st century challenges and opportunities with the 20th century foundational ideas and processes of the UN». The summit is an opportunity for international leaders to decide how to deliver a better today and safeguard the opportunities of tomorrow. The UN Secretary General has called it a «trust building exercise». The chief outcome document of the summit will be a Pact for the Future that is supposed to guide humanity as it moves towards the endpoint of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and beyond. The five chosen pillars of focus are sustainable development and financing for development, international peace and security, science, technology and innovation and digital cooperation, youth and future generations, and transforming global governance. The pact will be annexed with a Declaration on Future Generations and a Global Digital Compact.

“I am the enemy you killed, my friend. I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed. I parried; but my hands were loath and cold. Let us sleep now... .” — “Strange Meeting” by Wilfred Owen In 1845, the German philosopher, political theorist and economist Karl Marx wrote about his theory of historical materialism in Theses on Feuerbach. It states that the direction of history is determined by material forces and that the ultimate result will be a communist utopia. With the proletariat (workers) emerging as victors, and that it would be the “end of history”. Exactly 144 years later, two events happened. In the summer of 1989, the American magazine The National Interest published an essay, “The End of History?”. Its author, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama, said that the ideological battles between East and West were over. Western liberal democracy had triumphed. At that time, anti-communist protests were breaking out across the former Soviet Union. Fukuyama had put his neck on the line with that essay.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BEIRUT—Israel’s airstrike on a building in southern Beirut didn’t just kill a top Hezbollah commander—it took out an entire class of senior leaders of the militant group’s most elite fighting force, as the two foes lurch closer to all-out war. Hezbollah on Saturday raised the death toll among its fighters from Friday’s airstrike to 16, including top military commander Ibrahim Aqil and many of the senior commanders of the elite Radwan force.

Palestinians said an Israeli strike killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City on Saturday, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a Hamas command centre. The Gaza health ministry said most of those killed were women and children. The Hamas-run government media office said 13 children, including a three-month-old baby, and six women were among the dead. The military said it hit a Hamas command centre embedded in the compound that previously served as a school, repeating an accusation that Hamas uses civilian facilities for military purposes — a charge which Hamas denies.