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UN chief in Beirut for Lebanon 'solidarity' visit
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (334+ words) U.N. chief Antonio Guterres said he had arrived in Beirut on Friday for a "solidarity" visit to Lebanon, where the Middle East war has claimed more than 687 lives since March 2. "I have just landed in Beirut for a visit of solidarity…...
Australia orders all 'non-essential' officials to leave Lebanon
2+ hour, 55+ min ago (286+ words) Australia has ordered all non-essential officials in Lebanon to leave, Canberra's foreign minister said Friday, after issuing the same command to diplomats in Israel and the United Arab Emirates. In a post on X, top diplomat Penny Wong said they…...
Iran attacks on Mideast shipping and energy infrastructure send oil prices soaring
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (690+ words) Unrelenting Iranian attacks on shipping traffic and energy infrastructure pushed oil above $100 a barrel Thursday, as American and Israeli strikes pounded the Islamic Republic with no sign of an end to the war in sight. Iran hit a container ship…...
Hezbollah fires biggest barrage of war, Israel threatens to take territory, and latest strikes
1+ day, 59+ min ago (395+ words) In east Lebanon, Israeli strikes targeted Qsarnaba and Douris after warning residents to evacuate. The strikes on the south killed four people, raising Thursday's death toll to 21, 4 in south Lebanon, 5 in an earlier strike on Aramoun and 12 in a strike…...
Israel army expands evacuation area in south Lebanon to north of Zahrani
23+ hour, 3+ min ago (209+ words) Israel army expands evacuation area in south Lebanon to north of Zahrani'Naharnet Israel army expands evacuation area in south Lebanon to north of Zahrani The Israeli military on Thursday expanded its evacuation warning for residents in southern Lebanon to include…...
Israeli strike kills two academics at Lebanese university
20+ hour, 30+ min ago (160+ words) An Israeli strike on a campus of Lebanon's public university killed two academics. The director of the faculty of sciences at the south Beirut campus of the Lebanese University, Hussein Bazzi, and professor Mortada Srour were killed by an Israeli…...
Aoun, Salam to send team to Cyprus for possible talks with Israel
1+ day, 58+ min ago (175+ words) President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam have begun forming the Lebanese delegation for direct negotiations with Israel, a Western diplomatic source revealed to Al-Jadeed TV. The delegation will include a Shiite figure who does not represent Hezbollah and…...
Iran vows to fight on and block all Gulf oil
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (800+ words) Iran vowed on Tuesday that not one liter of oil would be exported from the Gulf while its war with the United States and Israel continues, in a stark rebuke to President Donald Trump's boast that the conflict was all…...
US reportedly tasks Barrack with Lebanese-Syrian-Israeli peace plan, wants Hezbollah in talks
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (370+ words) A U.S. diplomatic initiative has been launched to address the Lebanese situation but this move does not mean Washington is concerned with an immediate halt to the Israel-Hezbollah war, well-informed sources said. The sources revealed to the pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper that…...
Iran targets Israel and Gulf countries, Netanyahu says 'not done yet"
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (241+ words) Iran launched new attacks on Tuesday at Israel and Gulf Arab countries as it kept up pressure on the Middle East in a war that has sent oil prices surging and stunned global economies. Five pro-Iranian militiamen were killed in…...