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Israelis stage heavy airstrikes in Lebanon and Hezbollah launches drone attack on Israel
MAYS AL-JABAL, LEBANON - AUGUST 24: Scouts carry a poster of Musa al-Sadr during the funeral of Hezbollah fighter Husein Mohamad Choukair on August 24, 2024 Mays Al-Jabal, Lebanon. The recent assassination of a Hezbollah military commander in Lebanon, as well as the killing of the political leader of Hamas in Iran, has heightened concerns of a wider regional war between Israel and Iran-backed enemies like Hezbollah. Israel and Hezbollah have traded regular cross-border fire since Oct. 7, although both sides have seemed to calculate their attacks to avoid all-out war. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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Top U.S. general makes unannounced Middle East trip as Iran threat looms
FILE - Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., speaks about U.S. defense strategy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. President Joe Biden is expected to nominate a history-making Air Force fighter pilot general with years of experience in shaping U.S. defenses to meet China's rise to serve as the nation's next top military officer, according to two people familiar with the decision. If confirmed by the Senate, Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown Jr. would replace the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark Milley, whose term ends in October. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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Ceasefire talks resume in Cairo following Israeli strikes killing 50 in Gaza
Palestinians inspect damage in Qatari-funded Hamad City, following an Israeli raid, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 24, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
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Suspect arrested in attempted arson at French synagogue in what Macron calls ‘terrorist act’
Law enforcement officers stand in front of a synagogue, in background on the photo, following the fire and explosion of cars in La Grande-Motte, south of France, on August 24, 2024. At least two cars, one containing a gas bottle, were set alight on the morning of August 24, 2024, in front of the synagogue in La Grande-Motte, causing an explosion that injured a local policeman, the French gendarmerie and the town's mayor said. (Photo by Pascal GUYOT / AFP) (Photo by PASCAL GUYOT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Why CUPE leader Fred Hahn must go
Marcus Gee
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2 journalists killed in Turkish airstrike in northern Iraq, local officials say
The mother (C) and father (2-R) of one of two women journalists killed in a drone strike walk past Kurdish Asayish security forces as relatives and journalists gather in front of the forensic department where the bodies of the two women were brought, in Sulaimaniyah in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on August 23, 2024. Officials blamed the strike on Turkey whose military operates against Kurdish fighters in the area. The defence ministry in Ankara said it was "not the Turkish army" that carried out the strike. (Photo by Shwan Mohammed / AFP) (Photo by SHWAN MOHAMMED/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill eight fighters, one child, security sources say
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila on August 21, 2024. The cross-border violence has killed some 590 people in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters but also including at least 128 civilians, according to AFP's tally. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP) (Photo by RABIH DAHER/AFP via Getty Images)
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A baby evacuated from Gaza lost an eye and most of his family in the war
Ten-month-old Palestinian, Mostafa Youssef Qadoura, who was badly injured during the war in Gaza, plays with his grandmother Amna Abd Rabou, at the New Administrative Capital Hospital, just outside Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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French destroyer rescues 29 mariners from oil tanker stricken in Red Sea attacks by Yemen rebels
The Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion is seen heading into the Finnart Ocean Terminal in the United Kingdom on Nov. 29, 2017. The Sounion traveling through the Red Sea came under repeated attack Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, leaving the vessel "not under command" and drifting ablaze after an assault suspected to have been carried out by Yemen's Houthi rebels, the British military said. (David Mackinnon via AP)
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Ontario CUPE president rejects call to resign over social-media post criticized as antisemitic
Fred Hahn, President of the Ontario Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), speaks at a press conference at Queen's Park in Toronto on Monday, July 16, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Blinch
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Canada pushing Israel on international court orders on Gaza, Joly says
People hold placards and Palestinian flags while protesting outside the offices of Glencore Coal in Sandton, Johannesburg on August 22, 2024. A broad coalition of Palestinian solidarity organisations, trade unions, working class community groups, climate activists and civil society organisations in solidarity with Palestine protested outside the coal companies offices calling for them to end their economic relations with Isreal. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed / AFP) (Photo by SHIRAAZ MOHAMED/AFP via Getty Images)
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Taliban in Afghanistan ban women’s voices and bare faces in public with new law
Taliban fighters celebrate the third anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)
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Israeli demands for troops in Gaza blocking truce deal with Hamas, sources say
Palestinians stand at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, August 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
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OPEC gets updated plans from Iraq, Kazakhstan on overproduction compensation
FILE PHOTO: A view of the logo of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) outside its headquarters in Vienna, Austria, November 30, 2023. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo
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Greek oil tanker drifting and ablaze after repeated attacks in the Red Sea, British military says
A student holds up a mock missile during a demonstration by students and university professors, mainly Houthi supporters, in solidarity with Palestinians at the campus of Sanaa University in Sanaa, Yemen August 21, 2024. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Delta and American Airlines extend the suspension of flights to Israel as the war in Gaza grinds on
FILE - A Delta Air Lines plane leaves the gate, July 12, 2021, at Logan International Airport in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
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Israeli military intelligence head leaves post, takes responsibility for Oct. 7 failure
NAHAL OZ, ISRAEL - JULY 17: Israeli soldiers stand near Nahal Oz base on July 17, 2024 in Natal Oz, Israel. Families of Oct. 7 attack victims, including slain surveillance soldiers from the Nahal Oz army base, have called on the government to create a state commission of inquiry into the Hamas-led attack and potential security and intelligence failures that enabled it. Last week, Israel's defense minister also called for an inquiry, although Prime Minister Netanyahu insists any such probe wait until after the war. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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Helicopter of Iran’s late President Raisi crashed due to weather, state news says
TOPSHOT - Rescue team members work at the crash site of a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Varzaghan, in northwestern Iran, on May 20, 2024. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was declared dead on May 20 after rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded western mountain region, sparking mourning in the Islamic republic. (Photo by AZIN HAGHIGHI / MOJ News Agency / AFP) (Photo by AZIN HAGHIGHI/MOJ News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli strikes kill more than 50 people in Gaza after Blinken ends visit without truce deal
FILE PHOTO: Palestinians walk in an area damaged during the Israeli offensive, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip August 20, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
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With Israel and Hezbollah on edge of war, peacekeepers in Lebanon have no peace to keep and nowhere to go
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