HEZBOLLAH SUFFERS MAJOR SECURITY BREACH AS PAGERS EXPLODE

Tue 17 September 2024:  Dozens of Hezbollah fighters were seriously wounded on Tuesday in southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs when their communication pagers exploded. According to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA), “Tens of injuries have been taken to hospital after pagers exploded through the use of high technology.” Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from […]

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US ARMY COMPLETES WITHDRAWAL FROM NIGER: PENTAGON

Tue 17 September 2024: The withdrawal of US troops from Niger is “complete,” a Pentagon official said Monday. “This process began on May 19th following the mutually established withdrawal conditions,” Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters. “The effective cooperation and communication between the United States and Nigerien armed forces ensured that the safe, orderly […]

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YEMEN’S HOUTHIS CLAIM US OFFERED TO RECOGNISE THEIR GOVT IN SANAA

Tue 17 September 2024: A senior Houthi official has claimed the US offered to recognise the Houthi government in Sanaa in a bid to stop the Yemeni group’s attacks, in remarks that a US official said were false. “There is always communication after every operation we conduct,” Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi movement’s […]

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WEIGHED DOWN BY DEADLY WAR, ISRAEL REVISES Q2 GDP ESTIMATES DOWNWARD FROM 1.2% TO 0.7%

Tue 17 September 2024: Israel, on Monday, lowered its estimates for the growth of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), taking it down from 1.2 per cent to 0.7 per cent for the second quarter of the year, as a year of expenses from its deadly war on Gaza also continue to pressure the economy […]

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‘12,000 MINORS, 710 INFANTS’: NAMES RELEASED OF OVER 34,000 VICTIMS OF ISRAEL’S WAR ON GAZA

Mon 16 September 2024: Health authorities in the embattled Gaza Strip, on Monday, released the names of 34,344 Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in the course of its deadly onslaught against Gaza Strip, now approaching its grim first anniversary, Anadolu Agency reports. The list published by the Gaza Health Ministry in Gaza included the names of […]

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IRAN: PRESIDENT SAYS DIRECT TALKS WITH US POSSIBLE IF IT ABANDONS HOSTILITY

Mon 16 September 2024: Iran could hold direct talks with the United States if Washington demonstrates practically that it is not hostile to the Islamic Republic, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday. Reuters reported that Pezeshkian was responding to a question at a news conference in Tehran on whether the government would be open to direct talks […]

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DETAILS OF SPECIAL OFFICIAL FUNERAL FOR GORDHAN ANNOUNCED

Mon 16 September 2024: The funeral service for former Minister Pravin Gordhan is expected to be held at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre in Durban on Thursday. Gordhan, 75, passed away on Friday following illness. “President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a Special Official Funeral Category 2 in honour of the late struggle and […]

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MALI, BURKINA FASO, AND NIGER STRENGTHEN TIES WITH LAUNCH OF BIOMETRIC PASSPORTS

Mon 16 September 2024: Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have taken a significant step towards solidifying their new Sahel alliance with the introduction of biometric passports. The move follows the military takeover in all three nations and signals their withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a regional bloc with 15 members. […]

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