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Beirut digs for victims at building flattened in Israeli strike

From behind a metal fence set up by security forces in southern Beirut on Saturday, local residents watched and waited as emergency personnel dug through debris, and the body count rose.The fate of their friends and neighbours remained unclear, a day after an Israeli strike tore into Beirut's densely populated southern suburbs on Friday.Lebanese authorities reported civilian victims in the raid Israel said targeted Hezbollah commanders.The claws of two tracked excavators dug through the mangled concrete and metal of a flattened building.
Source: Al Monitor
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Iran blast kills more than 50 mine workers

A blast caused by a gas leak at a coal mine has killed at least 51 people, state media said Sunday, in one of Iran's deadliest work accidents in years."The number of dead workers increased to 51" in the explosion at the Tabas mine in eastern Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported, revising an earlier death toll of 30.It said 20 more were injured.The explosion occurred at around 9:00 pm (1730 GMT) on Saturday, when around 70 workers were present at the site in South Khorasan province, IRNA said.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iran blast kills more than 50 mine workers

Israel forces raid Al Jazeera TV in West Bank, order 45-day closure

Armed and masked Israeli forces raided the office of global news channel Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order.It was the latest salvo in a long-running feud between the Arab broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government which has worsened during the war in Gaza.Since the war began on October 7 when Hamas Palestinian militants attacked Israel, Al Jazeera has aired continuous on-the-ground reporting on the effects of Israel's military campaign.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israel forces raid Al Jazeera TV in West Bank, order 45-day closure

'Barely anyone left': Sudan's El-Fasher devastated by fighting

Civilians combed through the wreckage of their homes Sunday in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher, besieged for months by paramilitaries who have now launched a "full-scale assault", according to the United Nations.As the world body's high-level General Assembly meeting prepares this week to spotlight Sudan's 17-month war -- which has claimed tens of thousands of lives and caused the world's largest displacement crisis -- global leaders have warned against cataclysmic violence in the city of two million.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: 'Barely anyone left': Sudan's El-Fasher devastated by fighting

Military escalation not in Israel's 'best interest': White House

A regional military escalation is not in Israel's "best interest," White House National Security spokesman John Kirby said on Sunday, as heightening cross-border tensions between Israel and Lebanon have led to fears of an all-out war."We don't believe that escalating this military conflict is in their best interest," Kirby said on ABC's "This Week," adding that the United States was "saying this directly to our Israeli counterparts."
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Military escalation not in Israel's 'best interest': White House