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May 7th, 2026 - 05:53 GMT

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Hezbollah drones injure 7 Israeli soldiers

ALBAWABA - The Israeli army said that seven of its soldiers were wounded – one seriously – in Hezbollah drone attacks in southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours. On Wednesday, the Israeli army carried out one of the most intense attacks in three weeks, targeting and killing a major Hezbollah commander. Israel killed Malek Ballout, a senior Hezbollah commander who had served as the head of the Radwan Force ...

Tunisian Assembly (parliament) speaker Rached Ghannouchi attends the presentation of new government ministers before the assembly at its headquarters in the capital Tunis on January 26, 2021. FETHI BELAID / AFP

February 1st, 2021 - 07:24 GMT

We Need a 'Switch Over' to a Parliamentary System - Tunisia's Speaker Ghannouchi

A boy sits among women awaiting departure during the release of another group of Syrian families from the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp which holds suspected relatives of Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria, on January 28, 2021. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP

February 1st, 2021 - 07:16 GMT

Floods Engulf Syria's Afrin Refugee Camp, 30 Tents Destroyed

A group of Myanmar activists protests outside outside the United Nations university building in Tokyo on February 1, 2021 following a military coup in the country by a general after arresting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior officials. Philip FONG / AFP

February 1st, 2021 - 07:10 GMT

Myanmar Military Seizes Power, Arrests Aung San Suu Kyi

A health worker prepares to administer a vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Surabaya on January 31, 2021. Juni Kriswanto / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 12:53 GMT

COVID Vaccines Have to Be 85% Effective to Prevent Surge in Deaths - Scientists Say

A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) makes his way out of a temporary ward dedicated to the treatment of possible COVID-19 coronavirus patients at the Nasrec Field Hospital in Soweto, on January 25, 2021. Michele Spatari / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 11:35 GMT

Equity, Fairness: Africa Fears of Being Left Behind in The Distribution of Vaccines

Israeli military forces (Twitter)

January 31st, 2021 - 11:22 GMT

Israeli Soldiers Shoot Dead Young Palestinian in The South West Bank

A Palestinian boy wearing a mask for protection against the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic runs along a beach beneath a mosque in Gaza City on January 27, 2021. MOHAMMED ABED / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 11:11 GMT

Israel to Deliver 5,000 COVID-19 Vaccinations to The Palestinian Authority

A Palestinian man rides his vehicle loaded with empty plastic containers that were collected from the street for recycling, in Gaza City, on January 31, 2021. MOHAMMED ABED / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 10:53 GMT

Jordan's King Abdullah: If a Solution to The Palestinians is Not Reached There Will be no Peace or Stability

Lebanese MP, Michel Murr (Twitter)

January 31st, 2021 - 10:02 GMT

Lebanon's Oldest Premier Michel Murr Dies From COVID

A medical worker administers a dose of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 coronavirus disease upon a woman at a clinic in the city of Blida, about 45 kilometres southwest of the Algerian capital, on January 30, 2021, where the North African country is symbolically starting its vaccination drive at the same place to have registered the first novel coronavirus case in 2020. At the end of December, Algiers announced an order of 500,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine from its Russian ally. RYAD KRAMDI / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 09:56 GMT

Algeria Kicks Off Its COVID Campaign With Russia's Sputnik V Vaccine

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a visit at the Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N) of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Paris-Saclay University research unit in Orsay, near Paris, France, on January 21, 2021. Macron will present on the day the French quantum strategy. Yoan VALAT / POOL / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 09:47 GMT

Macron Holds Off Third Lockdown Despite Surge in Covid Cases in France

Rohingya refugees look out from a bus headed to a Bangladeshi navy ship in Chittagong on January 30, 2021, that will take them to be relocated to Bhashan Char island in the Bay of Bengal. Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP

January 31st, 2021 - 09:41 GMT

A New Start! For The Rohingya's Going to The 'Floating Island' May not be as Bad as it was First Thought