Middle East
Netanyahu trashes US and French plan for Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire
Not happening, said Israeli prime minister.
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Biden: ‘All-out war is possible’ in the Middle East
France charges ISIS bride with crimes including genocide
Netanyahu is wrong about UK arms embargo, says Starmer
Turkey’s Erdoğan compares Israel’s Netanyahu to Hitler at UN assembly
Israel-Hezbollah conflict close to ‘full-fledged war,’ says EU top diplomat
Josep Borrell said Israeli attacks were forcing civilians to pay an “unacceptable price.”
US sending ‘small number’ of troops to Middle East as attacks ramp up
The troops would add to the 40,000 American forces already in the region.
Israel ‘intensifying’ strikes in Lebanon, defense minister says
IDF hits 150 Hezbollah targets, the military said.
Top Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli strike on Beirut
Ibrahim Aqil, a member of Hezbollah’s top military body, was one of several officials of the militant group targeted in Friday’s attack.
Israel hits Beirut with strike targeting top Hezbollah commander
Friday brought further escalation in the Middle East after a week of explosive events.
Middle East pager attacks ignite fear of supply chain warfare
The operations in Lebanon and Syria could spark a global reckoning over vulnerabilities faced by tech companies with global manufacturing operations.
Israeli airstrikes hit south Lebanon as Hezbollah accuses it of crossing ‘all red lines’
“We have suffered a heavy blow” in the deadly waves of pager and walkie-talkie explosions, said Hassan Nasrallah.
Lebanon: No more pagers, walkie-talkies on flights from Beirut
Ban follows deadly blasts that killed at least 26 people in an apparent Israeli attack on Hezbollah.
Netanyahu says UK has ‘undermined’ Israel with arms embargo
The Israeli prime minister accused Keir Starmer’s government of “sending mixed messages.”
Israeli defense minister: A ‘new phase of war’ has begun
Army chief says Israel has “many more goals” to accomplish in the ongoing conflict.
Lebanon hit by second wave of tech explosions
Hezbollah members were targeted in the initial attack on pager devices on Tuesday afternoon.
Orbán’s rep says Hezbollah exploding pagers were ‘never’ in Hungary
Hungarian government hits back after Taiwanese company pointed the finger at Budapest firm, following mass simultaneous explosions in Lebanon.
US officials drafting new options for Gaza cease-fire deal
Officials in Washington believe they still have ways to get Israel and Hamas to agree on the terms for phase one of the deal.
Russia claims Hezbollah pager explosions were designed to ‘provoke a major war’
The Kremlin says Russian specialists will study the attacks to “eliminate such risks in our country.”
Hungarian company built Hezbollah’s exploding pagers, Taiwanese firm says
Thousands were wounded in a simultaneous explosive strike across Lebanon on Tuesday.
Saudi oil giant spends well over a billion on ‘sportswashing,’ new report says
Fossil-fuel companies are the new patrons of Big Sport, according to think tank New Weather Institute.
Thousands injured as Hezbollah pagers explode in Lebanon
Lebanese hospitals have reportedly been overwhelmed with patients.
Ursula von der Leyen tightens grip before unveiling her team
Thierry Breton is out of the way, ridding the European Commission chief of her fiercest internal critic.
Israeli airstrikes kill 14 people in Gaza
Funeral preparations were under way for Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist who was shot by the Israeli military on Sept. 6.
Starmer and Biden brush off Putin’s threat of war
Ukraine is desperate to receive British Storm Shadow missiles — to Russia’s fury.
Blinken: Iran sending ballistic missiles to Russia
US secretary of state promises “further sanctions on Iran later today” as he warns European security at risk.
Greta Thunberg carried away by police at pro-Palestine demonstration, again
The protest called for Stockholm University to sever its ties with Israeli institutions.
3 Israelis killed at Jordan-West Bank crossing
The attack comes amid a tense military and political situation for Israel, with many people protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to reach a cease-fire deal.