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    Sheikh Naim Qassem Elected As New Hezbollah Chief 

    Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem has been elected as the new chief of the Lebanese movement after his predecessor Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated by Israel in Beirut last month.

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    Israel Claims Killing Yahya Sinwar in Gaza

    Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who stunned Israel and the world as a mastermind of the 2023 raid on Israel that set off the devastating Gaza war was killed by Israel’s military on Thursday. He was 61.

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    Only Solution Is Ceasefire Because We Won’t Be Defeated: Naim Qassem

    In his speech, third televised address since the assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s deputy leader reflected more confidence in the collective leadership of Hezbollah.

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    Hezbollah Strikes Military Base Deep Inside Israel; Scores Killed, Injured

    The Hezbollah attack in Binyamina shows that attacking Lebanon carries a heavy price for Israelis too, according to Gideon Levy, Israeli political analyst.

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    Israeli strike on hospital tent camp ignites a fire that burns dozens

    An Israeli airstrike on a hospital courtyard in the Gaza Strip early Monday killed at least four people and sent flames sweeping through a packed tent camp for people displaced by the war, leaving more than two dozen

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    Netanyahu threatens Lebanon with destruction ‘like Gaza’

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned  Lebanon Tuesday it could face destruction “like Gaza” as Israel ramps up its ground offensive against Hezbollah along the southern section of the  Lebanese coast.

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    22 killed in Israeli strikes on central Beirut

    Israel has repeatedly pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs over the last two weeks but Thursday’s raid was only the third time the city center has been targeted killing an unspecified number of civilians.

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    MBS's Crackdown: A Saudi Mother Sentenced For 34 Years For Tweeting

    A Saudi university student who had returned home for a vacation was sentenced to 34 years in prison for following and retweeting dissidents and activists on her personal Twitter account. 

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    Israel, Turkey Restore Full Diplomatic Ties

    Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke on Wednesday and agreed on reinstating their respective ambassadors and general consuls, thus restoring full diplomatic ties.

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    Russia To Launch Iran’s Most Advanced Monitoring Satellite

    Russia is set to launch an advanced satellite on behalf of Iran on 9 August, substantially boosting Iran’s current space capabilities, according to a statement by Roscosmos space agency.

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    Hezbollah Does Not Rule Out ‘War’ With Israel Over Disputed Gas Field

    The Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah does not rule out going to war with Israel over the regime’s attempts at impinging on Lebanon’s natural resources.

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    Israel wants US settle maritime row with Lebanon before Hezbollah deadline: Report

    According to the military affairs correspondent of Israel’s Channel 12, Tel Aviv is pressuring the US to finalize an agreement over their maritime border with Lebanon before the September deadline given by Hezbollah

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    Iraqi political groups announce formation of majority bloc in parliament

    Sixteen Iraqi political groups, including those led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, announced an alliance on Sunday that will be the largest bloc in the newly elected.

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    Spain cancels sale of 400 bombs to Saudi Arabia

    The Saudi-led coalition’s recent slaughter of Yemeni children has prompted the Spanish defense ministry to cancel a €9.2-million deal to sell Saudis 400 precision bombs.

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    Iran FM in Syria, says Idlib must be cleansed of militants

    Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that Idlib in northwestern Syria must be cleansed of terrorists and returned to the government fold as he arrived in Damascus.

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    US halts all funding to UN body helping Palestinians

    The United States announced it was halting funding for the United Nations' agency for Palestinian refugees on Friday after declaring the organisation was "irredeemably flawed".

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    Saudi official hints at plan to dig canal on Qatar border

    A senior Saudi official on Friday appeared to confirm local media reports that the kingdom is considering digging a canal to separate the Qatari peninsula from the mainland and turn it into an.

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    Yemen: 19 fishermen missing after Saudi airstrike

    As many as 19 fishermen have reportedly gone missing after a Saudi Arabian airstrike on fishing boats off Yemen’s western coastline, which has come under an unrelenting Saudi-led offensive.

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    UN: 10,000 'terrorists' in Syrian region of Idlib must be defeated

    United Nations Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday that the UN estimates that around 10,000 "terrorists" remain in northern Idlib province and need to be defeated.

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    Zarif blasts ‘warmonger’ Netanyahu for nuclear threat

    Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has fired back at “warmonger” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for threatening Iran with “atomic annihilation” right from the regime’s.

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    US, Israel form new joint task force to take on Iran

    The United States is teaming up with the Israeli regime to enforce economic sanctions against Iran in the wake of Washington’s withdrawal from the internationally backed nuclear deal with Tehran.

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    Yemen war: 'Nowhere left to hide' for 400,000 trapped in Hodeidah

    More than 120,000 Yemenis had already fled the war-ravaged city since the start of June, most of them heading to the relative safety of the capital, Sanaa, about 170km away.

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    Ready to abandon nuclear deal if needed: Iran's Khamenei

    Iran's supreme leader warned on Wednesday (Aug 29) the country could abandon its nuclear deal with world powers if it no longer served its interests, even as economic and political pressure.

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    UN accuses Saudi-UAE alliance of possible war crimes in Yemen

    The United Nations has accused the Saudi-UAE military alliance of committing possible war crimes in Yemen, adding there was "little evidence of any attempt ... to minimise civilian casualties.

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