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At least five people, including a child, were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Friday. A report by Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said an Israeli drone struck a house in the town of Aita al-Jabal with two missiles and killed two people, including a seven-year-old child. An earlier Israeli strike on the town of Tayer Harfa killed …

    A month after replacing President Biden as the Democratic nominee for the 2024 presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted her party’s presidential nomination, delivering the most important speech of her political career. Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, shakes hands in the air with President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention, Monday, Aug. …

At least seven people have been arrested in Guatemala in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants in the United States in 2022. The country’s Interior Ministry said Wednesday that the leader of the Los Orozco gang, which it said was “dedicated to smuggling migrants to the United States,” and six others were arrested. In 2022, 53 undocumented individuals from …

The body of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch has been recovered from the wreckage of his yacht, the “Bayesian”, which sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday. The search for the latest missing person, a woman, continues with specialist divers still searching the area. So far, six bodies have been recovered, including Lynch’s. The latest discovery brings the death …

  Russian Orthodox priests have visited the scene of a large fire at a fuel depot, which continues to burn three days after it was started by a Ukrainian drone strike. More than 500 firefighters are fighting a massive blaze at a Proletarsk oil depot in Russia’s southern Rostov region. About 20 of the 74 storage tanks were on fire, …

A massive explosion at an Indian pharmaceutical factory has killed at least 17 people, and injured 34 others, many with serious chemical burns. The blast occurred on Wednesday afternoon at a pharmaceutical unit in Anakapalli district, Andhra Pradesh. District police chief M. Deepika confirmed that “rescue operations are complete” and everyone has been accounted for, with the final toll of …

Two air-to-surface missiles fired by the Israeli military at a civilian SUV in the city of Sidon killed a leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades on Wednesday. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is the armed wing of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah). A Lebanese military source confirmed the incident to reporters in Beirut. The victim was identified as Khalil Maqdah, …

At least 28 people were killed and 23 others injured when a bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims crashed in Iran’s central Yazd province on Tuesday night. The bus was en route to the Iran-Iraq border carrying Pakistani passengers attending the Arbaeen ceremony when the incident occurred in Dehshir village, Taft County, at 9:50 p.m. local time (18:20 GMT) Tuesday night. Director …

  ● Among the 22 on board was British tycoon Mike Lynch, who celebrated his recent acquittal on fraud charges in the United States. Divers and an underwater drone are searching for six people, including a UK tech tycoon and an international banker, believed to be trapped when a luxury superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily. Among the six …

At least 12 people were killed and dozens more injured in an Israeli attack on a school building in Gaza City. The Israeli army said in a statement on Tuesday that the Palestinian militant organization Hamas had hidden a command center at the site. “Hamas terrorists use command and control centers to plan and carry out attacks,” he said. The …