A Hezbollah official says an Israeli strike in central Beirut has killed the militant group's main spokesman

A senior Hamas official on Friday said the group is "ready for a ceasefire" in Gaza, urging US President-elect Donald Trump to "pressure" Israel as it continued to pound the Palestinian territory."Hamas is ready to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire proposal is presented and on the condition that it is respected" by Israel, Doha-based Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim told AFP."We call on the US administration and Trump to pressure the Israeli government to end the aggre

An Israeli strike hit south Beirut on Sunday where the military said it targeted Hezbollah, hours after the Iran-backed group said it fired on Israeli bases around the city of Haifa.Late Saturday, Hezbollah said it had targeted five military bases including the Stella Maris naval base.

Israel launched a wave of air strikes on Hezbollah bastions in Beirut and south Lebanon on Saturday, as the Iran-backed militants said they fired on several Israeli military bases around the coastal city of Haifa.Israel has escalated its bombing of Lebanon since September 23 and has since sent in ground troops, following almost a year of limited, cross-border exchanges of fire begun by Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in support of Hamas in Gaza.

The situation in the north of the Gaza Strip resembles a "dystopian horror film" and has recently worsened, according to the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). During a recent visit, Jan Egeland drove through "endless areas with completely destroyed houses." Despite this, people are still holding on there, he told Germany's Zeit Online news website. Aid deliveries are often looted, said Egeland, who witnessed this himself at the Kerem Shalom border crossing near the town of Rafah in th

Prominent Iranian political activist, Kianoosh Sanjari, who took his own life on Wednesday in an act of protest, was buried Friday morning in Tehran. In a final post on his X account he said the decision was to protest against what he called the dictatorship of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Protest is the right of every Iranian citizen.

BEIRUT (Reuters) -An Israeli strike on a building in a densely populated district of Beirut on Sunday killed Hezbollah's media relations chief Mohammad Afif, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters, though there was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah. The Israeli military declined to comment in response to questions from Reuters. There was no evacuation order for the area published on the Israeli military spokesperson's account on social media platform X before the strike.

KYIV (Reuters) -Russia unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes on Ukraine in almost three months on Sunday, firing 120 missiles and 90 drones in a sweeping attack that killed at least seven people and caused "severe damage" to the power system, officials said. Ukrainians have been bracing for weeks for an attack on the hobbled energy system, fearing crippling damage that would cause long blackouts as winter sets in and ramp up psychological pressure at a critical moment in the war launched by Russia in February 2022. The strikes, which prompted emergency power cuts in numerous regions, came after this month's U.S. presidential election victory of Donald Trump, whose pledge to end the war without saying how has raised the prospect of a looming push to hold negotiations.

Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of Israeli sergeant Ivri Dickshtein in Jerusalem on Friday who was killed in southern Lebanon. Seven Israeli soldiers were killed in recent days fighting with Hezbollah militants, bringing the number of soldiers killed since the start of the war to 749, the army said in a statement. (AP Video: Shlomo Mor)

The main spokesman for Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group was killed in the first Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in more than a month on Sunday, an official with the militant group told The Associated Press. Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip had earlier killed 12 people, Palestinian medical officials said. The Hezbollah official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, said Mohammed Afif was killed in the strike in central Beirut.

Fresh Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs late Friday following a heavy bombardment in the morning. A dpa reporter said there were at least three explosions and that black smoke rose over the Ghobeiry area. Shortly before the Israeli strikes, the Israeli army issued an evacuation warning for the neighbourhood. Most residential areas of Beirut's southern suburbs - considered a stronghold of Hezbollah - have already been emptied out. The Israeli army accuses the Shiite militia of hidi

The Israeli military on Saturday kept up its fierce bombardment of Lebanon, including Beirut's southern suburbs and the port city of Tyre, with two paramedics among those killed, as attacks continued to rage across much of the devastated Gaza Strip. The Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah had fired around 65 missiles at Israel by Saturday afternoon, the military said, six weeks after Israeli troops began a ground offensive in southern Lebanon. As it has for days now, Israeli jets once again pou

The Israeli army is investigating its actions in 16 attacks in the Gaza Strip on suspicion of law violations. The attacks took place between October 21 and November 2. The Israeli army said on Friday that the review of the cases is still ongoing, and it could therefore not provide details. According to Haaretz, the cases include airstrikes on residential buildings and former school buildings, in which, according to Palestinians, many people were killed. In the case of an attack on a former schoo

Protesters in Georgia's Russia-backed breakaway region of Abkhazia declined on Saturday to leave the parliament building which they stormed the previous day, a departure proposed by the region's president as a condition for resigning. Protesters had occupied the parliament in protest at an investment agreement between the Black Sea region and Moscow. Russian news agency RIA reported that President Aslan Bzhania had said on Saturday he would resign and hold a snap election once protesters vacated the parliament in Abkhazia's capital Sukhumi, and proposed a vice-president as interim head of state.

Unknown individuals fired two flares at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence on Saturday evening, Israeli police reported. The flares landed in the yard of the house in Caesarea, a town on the Mediterranean coast. Netanyahu and his family were not at home and no damage was caused, according to the police, which described the incident as "grave." Many politicians expressed their dismay, including opposition leader Yair Lapid and Israeli President Isaac Herzog. It was not clear wh

Israel carried out more strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon Friday, leveling a building in Beirut. The attack comes as a top Iranian official is vowing to support the Lebanese and the U.S. pushes for a cease-fire. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has more.

Myanmar's military has consistently targeted civilians and their communities as a form of collective punishment in the country's southeast since the army seized power in early 2021, a rights group said in a report released Friday. Documented airstrikes on villages examined by researchers from the Karen Human Rights Group based in Myanmar's southeast, are emblematic of a broader assault on civilians across the war-torn nation, said James Rodehaver, the Bangkok-based chief of the Myanmar team of the U.N.'s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Myanmar is racked by violence that began when the army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021 and brutally suppressed nonviolent protests.

An artillery shell struck a base for UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday but did not cause any injuries. The 155-millimetre shell did not explode and was safely detonated by Italian explosives experts after it hit the base in Shama, a statement by the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said. At the time of the incident the peacekeepers had been in their shelters due to ongoing clashes between the Hezbollah militant group and Israeli forces. It was unclear where the shell was fired f

Venezuelan authorities freed 225 people this weekend who were detained in protests against the disputed reelection of President Nicolas Maduro in July, the prosecutor's office said Saturday."It's not 225, it's more than 2,000 young people unjustly detained!"

CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela has freed 225 people arrested during anti-government protests over the nation's disputed presidential election in July, Attorney General Tarek Saab said late on Saturday. The releases were based on new evidence gathered by prosecutors, Saab said in a statement. Saab, who has said the protests left 28 people dead and nearly 200 injured, said last week he would review at least 225 arrests.

Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible "Insider Threat" by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that's associated with white supremacist groups. Hegseth, who has downplayed the role of military members and veterans in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and railed against the Pentagon's subsequent efforts to address extremism in the ranks, has said he was pulled by his District of Columbia National Guard unit from guarding Joe Biden's January 2021 inauguration.

President-elect Donald Trump doesn't seem to have a close relationship with his 18-year-old son Barron (he's even said he hates taking pictures with him), and a resurfaced video of Trump, his wife Melania Trump, and then 4-year-old Barron might shed some light on why. In the clip, Trump gave his young son a stern warning ...

Lions usually know better than to take on a massive white rhino. They are said to know their limitations. But that didn't stop a trio of lions at Kruger National Park in South Africa from trying. The end result was the male lion nearly getting gored by the rhino. Safari guide...

The Weekend Update desk at "Saturday Night Live" devoted its opening to hocking some loogies at Donald Trump's picks to lead his presidential administration. That list includes billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, who has been tapped by Trump to lead the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency taskforce, which aims to ...

On the last night of their lives, Jagdish Patel, his wife and their two young children tried to slip into the U.S. across a near-empty stretch of the Canadian border. Wind chills reached minus 36 Fahrenheit (minus 38 Celsius) that night in January 2022 as the family from India set out on foot to meet a waiting van. Coordinating things in Canada, federal prosecutors say, was Harshkumar Patel, an experienced smuggler nicknamed "Dirty Harry."

GREAT KILLS, Staten Island (PIX11) — Whoopi Goldberg claimed that a historic bakery on Staten Island wouldn't fill a dessert request that she'd made because the business didn't like her politics. The owner of the bakery, Holtermann's, said that a major maintenance issue at the business had prevented it from filling any large orders, like Goldberg's, [...]

Attorneys for X Corp., the firm established by Elon Musk to take over Twitter, filed a notice of appearance on Thursday in the bankruptcy case of Alex Jones and his Infowars platform.

From the moment the US election results rolled in, climate leaders knew Donald Trump would be a blow to the COP29 talks in Baku. What they didn't foresee was the demolition job Azerbaijan's own leader would do from the inside.