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10 die in Russia service station blast

Such accidents are frequent in Russia where violations of safety standards and ageing facilities often cause them.

Our future, our prosperity imperilled, Lebanese minister cries

Lebanon, where Israeli forces have launched a massive bombing campaign that has killed hundreds of people and displaced tens of thousand | The UN’s newly adopted pact | Sri Lanka, the country’s new president

UK moves 700 troops to Cyprus ready to evacuate Britons from Lebanon

Britain is moving 700 troops to Cyprus to be ready for an emergency evacuation of UK citizens from Lebanon, as the prime minister urged those still in the country to leave immediately.

China: Hezbollah first struck in Israel in support of Hamas | Lebanon is informed about the Jawasi pre-truce to Palestine

At least 492 people have been killed and 1,645 injured, Lebanon’s health ministry has said, after a wave of Israeli airstrikes on alleged Hezbollah targets that left the country with its highest daily death toll since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. Tens of thousands of people fled from south Lebanese towns and villages along the main road towards the capital, Beirut, in Israel’s most intense barrage in nearly a year of cross-border clashes, as sirens were also heard in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The Lebanese health ministry said 35 children and 58 women were among those killed.

Israel Beware !

China has urged its citizens in Israel to leave “as soon as possible”, as tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah escalate. “Currently, the situation along the Israel-Lebanon border is extremely tense, with frequent military conflicts,” China’s embassy in Israel said in a statement on Sunday Jawasisocial