Tag: killed
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Hamas leader in Lebanon killed; Strike hits central Beirut
Share Apparent Israeli strike hits central Beirut for first time An apparent Israeli airstrike struck a building in the central Beirut neighborhood of Cola last night, according to videos posted to social media. The videos, geolocated by NBC News, show damage to the multi-story building as debris is seen on the ground below. People are…
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Who is Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader Israel says it killed in Beirut strike
Israel announced on Saturday that its forces have killed Hassan Nasrallah, the powerful leader of the Lebanese militant and political group, Hezbollah, in what would mark a major escalation amid mounting hostilities at its northern border with Lebanon. An Israeli official said Friday that Israeli forces had targeted Nasrallah, who has led the Iran-backed militant…
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IDF says it has killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
Share Syria sends medical aid to Lebanon Freddie Clayton and Ammar Cheikh Omar Syria’s Health Ministry dispatched a 20-ton convoy of medical aid to Lebanon this morning, delivered through the Jdeidet Yabous border crossing. It said the shipment included essential items focused on emergency response needs. Share IDF warns Dahia residents to evacuate Lina Dandees…
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Health workers killed in Lebanon
Share Netanyahu to speak at UNGA after defying international calls for a cease-fire Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday after striking a defiant note the day before as he vowed to continue hitting Hezbollah “with all our might.” Netanyahu said Israel will not stop…
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Pilot killed in midair small plane collision in California
A pilot died after two single-engine planes collided midair on Sunday in Southern California, officials said. The planes, a single-engine Nanchang CJ-6 and a single-engine Yakovlev Yak-52, collided near Lancaster, in northern Los Angeles County, around 1 p.m. PT on Sunday, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Only the two pilots were on board the aircrafts…
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At least 51 killed in Iran coal mine blast
A gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran’s South Khorasan Province killed at least 51 people and injured 20, state media in the country said on Sunday. The accident was caused by a methane gas explosion in two blocks, B and C, of the mine run by the Madanjoo company, state media said. “Seventy-six percent of the country’s coal is…
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At least 4 killed and dozens injured in Alabama
At least four people were killed and dozens more were injured in a shooting at in Birmingham, Alabama police said early Sunday. At least four of the wounded have “life-threatening injuries,” Birmingham Police Department Officer Truman Fitzgerald told a news conference, hours after the incident in what he called one of the city’s “most popular…
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Texas couple sentenced to prison after pit bulls killed 81-year-old man
A Texas couple was sentenced to more than a decade in prison each Friday after their pit bulls got loose and killed an 81-year-old man last year, the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office said. Christian Moreno was sentenced to 18 years in prison and Abilene Schnieder was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the Feb.…
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Hezbollah commanders among 37 killed in Beirut strike; Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 22, officials say
And a senior officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said the region was on the brink of war. Calling Israel’s airstrike “another major crime,” Mohsen Rezaee raised the prospect of widening conflict, saying “it is possible that after Lebanon, they may extend their crimes toward Iraq, Syria, or, with an even bigger mistake,…
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Families of workers killed and injured in Maryland bridge collapse sue owner and operator of cargo ship
Victims’ families and a survivor of a Maryland bridge collapse that killed six people filed claims Friday for wrongful death and punitive damages against the owner and the operator of the massive cargo ship that crashed into the bridge earlier this year. The 100,000-plus-ton ship Dali slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the…