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Israeli airstrikes on a central Beirut medical centre have killed at the least six folks and wounded seven, Lebanese well being officers mentioned, including {that a} additional 46 folks had been killed in Israeli assaults on town within the earlier 24 hours.
The Israeli strike hit a medical centre belonging to the Hezbollah-linked Islamic Well being Organisation within the early hours of Thursday. The assault was the second airstrike on central Beirut this week.
In Gaza, greater than 70 folks had been killed by Israeli assaults on Wednesday, Palestinian media and officers mentioned, together with in Israeli strikes on a college and an orphanage sheltering displaced folks.
In the meantime, on Wednesday the IDF introduced that eight troopers had been killed in floor fight in southern Lebanon, with the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, recording a condolences video to the households of Israeli troopers.
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What number of have been displaced in Lebanon? The Lebanese caretaker surroundings minister, Nasser Yassin, mentioned the variety of folks displaced in Lebanon had exceeded 1.2 million.
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What’s the US view of the escalating Center East battle? On Wednesday the president, Joe Biden, mentioned he would not assist an Israeli assault on Iranian nuclear websites, because the US sought to mood Israel’s response to Iran’s missile assault on Tuesday and include a quickly escalating regional battle. Israel vowed to reply to Iran.
Particular counsel reveals new particulars of Trump bid to overturn 2020 election
Donald Trump “resorted to crimes” in a failed bid to cling to energy after shedding the 2020 election, federal prosecutors mentioned in a newly unsealed court docket submitting that argues that the previous president will not be entitled to immunity from prosecution.
Prosecutors laid out particulars together with an allegation {that a} White Home staffer heard Trump inform relations that it didn’t matter if he gained or misplaced the election, “you still have to fight like hell”.
The brand new submitting cites beforehand unknown accounts provided by Trump’s closest aides to color a portrait of an “increasingly desperate” president who, whereas shedding his grip on the White Home, “used deceit to target every stage of the electoral process”.
“So what?” the submitting quotes Trump as telling an aide after being alerted that his vice-president, Mike Pence, was in potential hazard after a crowd of violent supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6.
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Right here’s what the submitting argues: “When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office.”
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Right here’s why the timing of Wednesday’s unsealing is essential: The 165-page submitting might be the final alternative for prosecutors to element their case towards Trump earlier than the 5 November election given there won’t be a trial beforehand.
Melania Trump passionately defends abortion rights in upcoming memoir
In an eagerly awaited memoir to be revealed a month from election day, Melania Trump declares she is a passionate supporter of a girl’s proper to regulate her personal physique – together with the appropriate to abortion.
“It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” Melania writes, amid a marketing campaign during which Donald Trump’s threats to ladies’s reproductive rights have performed a central position.
Melania additionally says she disagreed together with her husband on some points of immigration coverage. “I believed in addressing [disagreements] privately rather than publicly challenging him,” she writes.
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What does Melania Trump say about abortion? She says her beliefs about abortion rights spring from “a core set of principles”, on the coronary heart of which sits “individual liberty” and “personal freedom”, on which there’s “no room for negotiation”.
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Ukraine mentioned its forces withdrew from the japanese metropolis of Vuhledar, which had resisted Russian assaults because the full invasion in 2022.
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A North Korean defector residing in South Korea has been detained, after crashing a stolen bus close to the border in a failed try to return dwelling.
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The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, mentioned he would pay again greater than £6,000 ($8,000) in items, together with Taylor Swift tickets as the outrage over “freebies” deepens.
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One among two medical doctors charged within the dying of actor Matthew Perry has pleaded responsible, for conspiring to distribute ketamine.
Stat of the day: ‘Full-blown crisis’ as 5.4 million Haitians a day struggling to search out sufficient meals to eat, UN says
Half of all Haitians are struggling each day to search out meals, a UN report says, as gang violence and lawlessness are inflicting a “hunger emergency”. The UN World Meals Programme and companions estimate 5.4 million individuals are commonly discovering it exhausting to get sufficient meals. A coalition of support businesses are calling for fast motion to cease “devastating consequences”.
Don’t miss this: One yr on, Palestinian households mourn their useless in Gaza and query what the longer term holds
Nearly a yr on from the Hamas assaults on Israel, greater than 41,500 folks in Gaza who had been alive on 7 October – a heat, autumn morning – have been killed within the Israeli assault, well being officers say. Most had been civilians; 10,000 could also be buried in rubble. A yr later, these left alive mourn the useless and concern for the longer term.
Local weather verify: Biden visits North and South Carolina as Hurricane Helene dying toll rises to 166
Not less than 166 folks have died from Hurricane Helene, tons of are nonetheless lacking and greater than 1 million folks wrestle with energy as restoration efforts continued. President Biden toured the impacted space by helicopter. The pinnacle of Fema mentioned Hurricane Helene was made worse by international heating.
Final Factor: Is New York Metropolis’s ‘champagne tap water’ about to go flat?
New York Metropolis’s Division of Environmental Safety says town has “the champagne of tap water”. That’s as a result of the water high quality from the Catskills, pumped via the 85-mile Delaware aqueduct, is excessive sufficient to fulfill state pointers with out filtration. However the aqueduct is leaking, so for eight months its capability can be diminished. Prosecco faucet water, anybody?
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