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The UN’s highest body has heard the direst warning yet about the escalating situation in Lebanon. Addressing an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres was not mincing his words: “Madam President, excellencies. Hell is breaking loose in Lebanon. As I told the General Assembly yesterday, we should all be
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning attacks on Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, the Ukrainian president referred back to Russia‘s 2022 attack on the nuclear facility in the city of Zaporizhzhia, which Moscow’s forces now control. Describing initial reports of Russia’s attack on that
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At least 274 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon – including 21 children – according to the country’s health minister. Israel attacked hundreds of Hezbollah targets on Monday in Lebanon‘s deadliest day since 7 October, with 39 women also reported killed and 1,024 people wounded. After Hezbollah was rocked by pager and
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Two young siblings died on Sunday after a two-storey building collapsed in Naples, Italy. Their mother and an older woman are still buried in the rubble, with the Italian emergency services trying to find them. Rescuers in the Naples town of Saviano recovered the bodies of the four- and six-year-old siblings during the operation. Image:
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The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said it struck hundreds of rocket launcher sites across southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah’s leader attacked Israel for crossing a “red line”. Israel’s military said the Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out the strikes across two hours late Thursday evening, marking the first major attack since Lebanon was hit by pager
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The West still relies on the Russian nuclear power industry and vice versa, a review has warned. It said the “significant” interdependence has protected Russia from further European sanctions. But reducing the West’s reliance risks increasing costs, the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report said. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Western countries
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Last weekend, the head of the CIA said Western allies should not be intimidated by Vladimir Putin’s threats when making decisions on how best to support Ukraine. “Putin’s a bully. He’s going to continue to sabre rattle from time to time,” Bill Burns said in a joint appearance in London with his British counterpart, Sir
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