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Swiss glacier melt exceeds average in 2024 after hot summer
ZURICH - Swiss glaciers melted at an above-average rate in 2024 as a blistering hot summer thawed through abundant snowfall, monitoring...
Oct 2, 20242 min read
In Argentina's poverty-hit barrios a food emergency takes hold
BUENOS AIRES/SALTA, Argentina - In Argentina's poor barrios a food emergency is taking hold as poverty rises, with malnutrition on the...
Oct 2, 20245 min read
Iran's Revolutionary Guards say missiles fired at Israel, warn against retaliation
DUBAI - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday they launched tens of missiles toward Israel and warned that if Israel...
Oct 2, 20241 min read
Israel military says Iran attack will have consequences
JERUSALEM - Iran's missile attack on Tuesday was serious and will have consequences, Israel's military spokesperson said, declining to...
Oct 2, 20241 min read
Israel's Netanyahu says Iran made a big mistake and will pay
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran's missile attack on Israel failed and vowed retaliation. "Iran made a big...
Oct 2, 20241 min read
Factbox-What are Israel's Iron Dome and Arrow missile defences?
Israel's missile defenses were activated on Tuesday to repel a salvo of Iranian ballistic missiles fired in retaliation for Israel's...
Oct 2, 20242 min read
Factbox-What are Iran's missile capabilities?
Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday in retaliation for Israel's campaign against Tehran's Hezbollah allies in...
Oct 2, 20244 min read
China's support to Russia should have implications, new NATO chief says
BRUSSELS - New NATO secretary general Mark Rutte said on Tuesday that China had become a decisive enabler of Russia's war in Ukraine....
Oct 1, 20241 min read
Israel says it's targeting Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon ground raids
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT - Israel said commando and paratroop units launched raids into Lebanon on Tuesday as part of a "limited" ground...
Oct 1, 20244 min read
In address to Iran, Netanyahu says nowhere in Middle East out of Israel's reach
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Iranians on Monday that there was nowhere in the Middle East beyond Israel's...
Oct 1, 20241 min read
Explainer-What is the history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict?
Israel and Hamas have been waging war since gunmen from the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip stormed into southern Israel on...
Oct 1, 20245 min read
France says it is sending helicopter carrier to eastern Mediterranean
PARIS - A French helicopter carrier will arrive in the eastern Mediterranean in the next five to six days and take up position in case a...
Oct 1, 20241 min read
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