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Blinken arrives in Israel as US looks to renew cease-fire efforts after the killing of Hamas leader

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel on his 11th visit to the region since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he boards a plane en route to the Middle East as he departs Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (Nathan Howard/Pool Photo via AP)
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Blinken arrives in Israel as U.S. looks to revive Mideast cease-fire efforts

Blinken arrives in Israel as U.S. looks to revive Mideast cease-fire efforts
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2 transgender women stabbed to death at home in northwest Pakistan

Police say two men armed with daggers killed two transgender women at their home in conservative northwest Pakistan overnight before fleeing the scene, a sign of increasing violence against trans people in the country
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Middle East latest: Hezbollah fires rockets into central Israel

Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into central Israel on Tuesday, setting off air raid sirens in the country’s most populated areas but causing no apparent damage or injuries
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People displaced by Israel's war on Hezbollah scuffle with members of the Lebanese security, after dozens of policemen arrived at the building to evict the displaced from the private property, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Taiwan again rejects South African demand to move its representative office from capital

Taiwan has again rejected South Africa’s demand that it move its representative office in the country from the capital, Pretoria, to the commercial center of Johannesburg
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FILE- A rainbow forms over the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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Samoan coast where King Charles will visit worries about the future after ship damaged reef

People who live in villages along the Samoan coastline where a New Zealand navy ship ran aground, caught fire and sank this month are worried about their livelihoods and the future of tourism and fishing in the area as they prepare for the arrival of B...
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In this photo provided by the New Zealand Defence Force, divers survey the area around HMNZS Manawanui on the southern coast of Upulo, Samoa, after the Manawanui ran aground and sank on Oct. 6. (AC Jese Somerville/New Zealand Defence Force via AP)
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In annual religious pilgrimage, Panamanians crawl to reach the Black Christ of Portobelo

At dawn, pilgrims like Ernesto Troya undertook the hardest stretch of their journey to reach the image of the Black Christ of Portobelo in Panama
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A tattoo of Christ covers the chest of pilgrim Ernesto Troya who crawls to San Felipe Church to honor the Black Christ in Portobelo, Panama, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, during a festival celebrating the statue that was found on the shore in 1658. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
October 21

China holds live-fire drills opposite Taiwan, a week after large-scale exercise

China is holding live-fire drills off the coast of its southern Fujian province that faces Taiwan
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In this screen grab from video released by the Taiwan Coast Guard, a view of a China Coast Guard boat from a Taiwan Coast Guard boat as it passes near the coast of Matsu islands, Taiwan on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (Taiwan Coast Guard via AP)
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King Charles III's Commonwealth visit to Samoa will highlight climate change ... and dance

King Charles III should be prepared to dance when he visits Samoa this week
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People from the village of Siumu, Samoa, work on decorating the entrance of their village on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, as they prepare for the arrival of King Charles III. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
October 21

King Charles III ends first Australian visit by a reigning British monarch in 13 years

King Charles III is ending the first visit to Australia by a reigning British monarch in 13 years with anti-monarchists hoping his journey is a step toward an Australian citizen becoming head of state
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Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla goes down the stairs of the Sydney Opera House during their visit in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, Pool)
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Two plead guilty to murder of former Air India suspect Ripudaman Singh Mali

Two men charged in the killing of former Air India bombing suspect Ripudaman Singh Malik have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a British Columbia court
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Here's why every Australian can request, and receive, a free portrait of King Charles

Photo portraits of King Charles are available in Australia under a little-known government policy that says every citizen there can request, and receive, a portrait of their monarch
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A Nationhood pack is seen in Sydney, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, which includes a portrait of Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla that are available under a little-known government policy that says every Australian can request, and receive, a portrait of their monarch. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
October 21

Peru’s ex-president Toledo gets more than 20 years in prison in case linked to corruption scandal

Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo has been sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which became synonymous with corruption across Latin America, where it paid millions of dollars...
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Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo attends a court session where the judge will rule in his corruption case in Lima, Peru, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
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Peru's ex-president gets more than 20 years in prison in corruption case linked to Brazil construction giant Odebrecht

Peru's ex-president gets more than 20 years in prison in corruption case linked to Brazil construction giant Odebrecht
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Hundreds mourn Catholic priest and Indigenous peace activist killed in southern Mexico

Hundreds of people have turned out to mourn Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas
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People carry the coffin of slain Catholic priest and activist Marcelo Pérez prior to a mass at the main plaza in San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)
October 21

Hug it out, but make it quick. New Zealand airport sets time limit on goodbyes

Travelers leaving the New Zealand city of Dunedin will have to keep their emotional farewells brief after a new three-minute time limit was imposed on goodbye hugs in the airport’s drop-off area in order to prevent lingering cuddles from causing traffi...
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A sign for the drop off area is displayed at the Dunedin airport in Momona, New Zealand, Oct. 8, 2024. The New Zealand airport has imposed is a three-minute time limit on farewell hugs in the drop off area to prevent traffic jams. Travellers wanting to embrace for longer can relocate to the parking lot. (Sarah Soper/Dunedin Airport via AP)
October 21

Patients are 'trapped' in northern Gaza hospitals as IDF operations continue: MSF

Medical staff say they're running out of food and supplies to treat patients.
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Healthcare workers tend to an injured woman in the aftermath of the targeting of Abu Huwaishil's house in the Nuseirat camp as they receive treatment at Al-Awda Hospital, Oct. 13, 2024.
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President Paul Biya returns to Cameroon amid rumors his health is failing

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has returned to his home country after weeks abroad amid rumors that his health is failing
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FILE - Cameroon's President Paul Biya, of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement party, wait to casts his vote during the Presidential elections, Oct. 7, 2018, in Yaounde, Cameroon. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)
October 21

What is the Hezbollah-linked financial institution Israel is targeting in Lebanon?

The Israeli military has carried out a wave of airstrikes targeting branches of a financial institution affiliated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, saying the quasi-banking system is being used to fund the militant group’s military wing
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A bust of late Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, stands in front of a destroyed branch of the Hezbollah-run Qard al-Hassan at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Mexican schools have 6 months to ban junk food sales or face heavy fines

Mexican officials say schools have six months to implement a government-sponsored ban on junk food or face heavy fines
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FILE - A street vendor sells sweet snacks in Mexico City, July 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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Finnish conductor and composer Segerstam will be honored with a tribute event after his funeral

The family of the prolific Finnish conductor and composer Leif Segerstam says he will be remembered in a tribute event at the Finnish National Opera following his funeral next month
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Finnish conductor, composer Leif Segerstam pictured at his home in Helsinki, Finland on Feb. 8, 2024. (Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva via AP)
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Public university protests escalate in challenge to Argentina's President Milei

A series of protests are expected to intensify across Argentina this week over a veto by President Javier Milei of a law that passed last month increasing funding for public universities
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Students and professors rally outside Congress as lawmakers debate President Javier Milei's veto of a law to increase funding for public universities in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
October 21

Russia investigates the claimed shoot-down of a cargo jet in Sudan's Darfur region

Russia says it is investigating the claimed shoot-down of a cargo jet by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Darfur
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This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
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Russia says it is investigating the claimed shoot-down of a cargo plane by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces

Russia says it is investigating the claimed shoot-down of a cargo plane by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
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Slovakia and former Czech leader settle lawsuit over collaboration with communist secret police

Slovakia’s Interior Ministry has agreed in a lawsuit settlement that former former Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis did not knowingly collaborate with communist-era secret police in what was then Czechoslovakia
October 21
FILE - Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis waits in front of his residency in Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)
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Venezuela arrests a former oil czar and accuses him of working with the US to undermine the industry

Venezuela’s top prosecutor has announced the arrest of a former oil minister and accused him of working with the U.S. government to undermine the industry that drives the country’s economy
October 21
FILE - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, left, speaks with Pedro Tellechea, the oil minister and president of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, during a May Day event in Caracas, Venezuela, May 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
October 21

Philippine court jails 17 militants for life for mass kidnapping of tourists

A Philippine court has convicted and sentenced to life 17 Islamic militants for kidnapping for ransom 21 people, including European tourists and Asian workers, more than two decades ago
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London police officer who fatally shot a Black motorist acquitted of murder

A London police officer who fatally shot a Black motorist two years ago has been acquitted of murder
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Friends and family members of Chris Kaba leave the Old Bailey in central London, Monday Oct. 21, 2024, after the London police officer who fatally shot Kaba was acquitted of murder. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)
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A London police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black man has been acquitted of murder

A London police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black man has been acquitted of murder
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Lloyd Austin visits Ukraine as Zelensky warns of 'clear' North Korea threat

Austin's visit is his third to the country during its war with Russia. ABC News' Britt Clennett reports.
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VIDEO: Lloyd Austin visits Ukraine as Zelensky warns of 'clear' North Korea threat
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Police in Mozambique fire tear gas at opposition politician as post-election tensions soar

Police in Mozambique have fired tear gas at the country's leading opposition politician and supporters as he spoke with reporters
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Vote counting gets underway at a polling station in Maputo, Mozambique, in general elections Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Uqueio)
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International headlines from ABC News

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
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Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
October 21

US missile deployment to Philippines 'incredibly important' for combat readiness, US general says

A US Army general says the deployment by the US military of a mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines was “incredibly important” and allowed American and Filipino forces to jointly train for the potential usage of such heavy weaponry in co...
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U.S. Maj. Gen. Marcus Evans, commanding general of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Division looks at names of American soldiers who died during World War II that are carved on a wall at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Taguig, Philippines Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
October 21

Albania's left-wing former President Meta is arrested on corruption allegations

Albanian prosecutors have arrested former President Ilir Meta on suspicion that the left-wing Freedom Party leader engaged in alleged corruption, money laundering and hiding of personal income and property
October 21
FILE - Albanian President Ilir Meta speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Tirana, Albania, on April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina, File)
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Police in Haiti battle gang coalition trying to seize control of the entire capital

Police in Haiti are clashing with gunmen trying to take over one of the few communities in the capital, Port-au-Prince, that is not controlled by gangs
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Soldiers patrol amid the sound of gunshots heard in the distance, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
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Brazil environmental disaster victims take case against mining giant BHP to UK court

Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster are taking their case for compensation to a UK court on Monday
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What remains of a home that was destroyed when a dam broke carries signs that read in Portuguese "That marked our lives" and "So that it is never forgotten" in Bento Rodrigues, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, Oct. 19, 2024. Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, on Nov. 5, 2015, took their case for compensation to a UK court on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, almost nine years after tons of toxic mining waste poured into a major waterway, killing 19 people and devastating local communities. (AP Photo/Eleonore Hughes)
October 21

Champion cleared of cheating with a metal chestnut at the World Conker Championships

A British chestnut-whacking champion has been cleared of cheating after an investigation into alleged malfeasance at the World Conker Championships
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Competitors take part in the annual World Conker Championships at the Shuckburgh Arms in Southwick, Peterborough, England, Sunday Oct. 13, 2024. (Jacob King/PA via AP)
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Janusz Olejniczak, who played the piano parts in Oscar-winning movie 'The Pianist,' dies at 72

Polish musician and teacher Janusz Olejniczak, who played the piano parts in the 2002 Oscar-winning movie “The Pianist,” has died aged 72
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Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak, who played the piano parts in the 2002 Oscar-winning movie "The Pianist," receives applause from the audience following a concert at the Warsaw Philharmonic on Jan. 5, 2020. Olejniczak died from heart attack on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Wojciech Grzedzinski )
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Crowd in Egypt attacks a railway guard after 2 children are run over

Angry residents have attacked a railway guard and his post in a town outside Cairo after a train ran over and killed two children crossing from an unauthorized area
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This is a locator map for Egypt with its capital, Cairo. (AP Photo)
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India says it reached a pact with China on military patrols along their disputed border

An Indian official says India and China have agreed to a pact on military patrols along their disputed border in the Himalayas
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FILE -In this handout photo provided by the Press Information Bureau, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits soldiers receiving treatment after being injured in clashes with Chinese soldiers, at a military hospital in Leh, Ladakh area, India, July 3, 2020. (Press Information Bureau via AP, File)
October 21

King Charles III yelled at by Indigenous Australian senator

Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception after telling King Charles III that Australia is not his land.
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Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception after telling King Charles III that Australia is not his land.
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Moldovans narrowly chose 'yes' in a referendum to secure the country’s EU path, electoral authorities say

Moldovans narrowly chose 'yes' in a referendum to secure the country’s EU path, electoral authorities say
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Vietnam appoints army general as new president after months of turmoil

Vietnam has elected Luong Cuong, a military general, as its new president, the fourth official to fill the role in 18 months
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Vietnam's newly elected President Luong Cuong, from left, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam and Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man pose together for photo in Hanoi, Vietnam on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang)
October 21

Israel says more strikes are coming against a Hezbollah-run financial institution

Israel says it is planning to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution that it targeted the night before
October 21
Rescue workers use a bulldozer to remove rubble of destroyed buildings at the site of an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night that hit several branches of the Hezbollah-run al-Qard al-Hassan in Beirut's southern suburb, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
October 21

A Japanese police chief apologizes to a man acquitted after 50 years on death row

A Japanese police chief has apologized to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering because of a wrongful conviction that had kept him on death row decades until last month when he was acquitted in a retrial
October 21
Shizuoka Prefectural Police chief Takayoshi Tsuda, left, offers an apology to former Japanese death-row inmate Iwao Hakamada, center, and his sister Hideko, right, for his decades-long suffering, at Hakamada's home in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, central Japan, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP)
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French transport minister meets cycling groups after a traffic death sparks protests

The French transport minister is expected to meet with cycling associations following the death of a cyclist in Paris after a dispute with a driver
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- FILE - A man rides past a bicycle counter in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/John Leicester, File)
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2 dead and 22 rescued after migrant boat runs into trouble in rough weather near a Greek island

Greece's coast guard says a search and rescue operation off the coast of the eastern Greek island of Samos has recovered the bodies of two people reported missing overnight after a boat carrying 24 migrants ran into trouble in rough weather
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South Korea calls for immediate withdrawal of North Korean troops allegedly in Russia

South Korea has summoned the Russian ambassador to demand the immediate pullout of North Korean troops allegedly deployed in Russia
October 21
In this photo provided by South Korea Foreign Ministry, South Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Kim Hong Kyun, right, meets with Russian Ambassador to South Korea Georgy Zinoviev at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (South Korea Foreign Ministry via AP)
October 21

7 dead, at least 30 missing in Myanmar after boat carrying people fleeing capsized

Eight people are confirmed dead and almost 20 are missing after a boat whose passengers included villagers fleeing from fighting in Myanmar capsized in the Andaman Sea
October 21
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Middle East latest: Israel apologizes for strike that killed 3 Lebanese soldiers

The Israeli military has apologized for a strike that killed three Lebanese soldiers in southern Lebanon, saying it is not battling the country’s military and its troops believed they were targeting a vehicle belonging to the Hezbollah militant group
October 21
Flames and smoke rise form an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)