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The Israeli military said that Aqil, who served on Hezbollah’s top military body, was the acting commander of the group’s elite Radwan force and that he was killed along with other senior commanders of the unit. Read more
The lake’s main channel is 6.5 feet deep and roughly 100 meters wide, and it is used by all the boat traffic, from canoes to heavy ferries, Marmontel said. Two dolphins were killed recently when boats ran into them in the shallow water. Read more
The Typhon system, which can be equipped with cruise missiles capable of striking Chinese targets, was brought in for joint exercises earlier this year, both countries said at the time, but has remained there. Read more
Chinese authorities said the 10-year-old boy was a Japanese national born to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother, and he had been stabbed on his way to school at about 8 a.m. (0000 GMT) on Wednesday by a 44-year-old assailant surnamed Zhong. Read more
Lebanon’s health ministry said the initial casualty toll was one person killed and more than 100 injured. Earlier the state news agency said three people had died. Read more
The carrier, accompanied by two destroyers, sailed between Japan’s southern Yonaguni and Iriomote islands, entering an area that extends up to 24 nautical miles from its coastline where Japan can exert some controls as defined by the United Nations. Read more
U.S. U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said earlier the U.S. had seen the plan. “We think it lays out a strategy and a plan that can work,” she said. Read more
Lebanon’s information minister Ziad Makary said the government condemned the detonation of the pagers as an “Israeli aggression.” Hezbollah vowed revenge. Read more
China, which claims sovereignty over democratically-governed Taiwan, calls Western military transits in the area provocations. Read more
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the latest attack underscored the need for Ukraine’s Western partners to provide weapons and air defense systems and permission to use weaponry on targets deep inside Russia to save lives. Read more
A low-pressure system named Boris has triggered downpours from Austria to Romania, leading to some of the worst flooding in nearly three decades in hard-hit areas in the Czech Republic and Poland. Read more
The arrests are likely to deepen the country’s already substantial tensions with the United States after Venezuela’s disputed presidential election in July. Read more
Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested that Russia was exchanging nuclear technology with Tehran during a news conference in London last week. Read more
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been asking allies to allow Ukraine to use Western missiles deep into Russian territory to limit Moscow’s ability to launch attacks. Read more
Putin responded to reports that America and its allies were considering such a move by declaring that it would “mean that NATO countries — the United States and European countries — are at war with Russia.” Read more
Asked about the U.S. presidential election on his flight back to Rome from Singapore, the pope said not welcoming migrants is a “grave” sin, and likened having an abortion to an “assassination.” Read more
The Selangor state Islamic religious department said it was scrutinizing the group’s religious education facilities and had asked police to hand over any teaching material seized during Wednesday’s raids on the homes to determine if any offenses were committed under Islamic laws. Read more
Close colleagues visited him earlier in the day, reporting that he was in a critical condition. Read more
The number of doses of the vaccine Imvamune to be donated by Canada will depend on the receiving countries’ capacity for storage and administration, a spokesperson for Canada’s international development minister told Reuters. Read more
Israel has taken responsibility for the death of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, and Biden said the U.S. government expects continued access to the criminal investigation into the shooting. Read more
The King’s visit to Australia will be his first to a realm as monarch, and he will also attend the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Samoa scheduled from Oct. 21-26, Buckingham Palace said. Read more
