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Security & Justice
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Lebanon’s Probe into Israeli Raid Expected to Take Days as Security Officials Weigh Theories
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Opinion
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Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Thursday 1 February 2024 09:46:50
Two Passengers Planes Clip Wings in Japan Airport
The wing tips of two passenger jets “scratched” each other at a Japanese airport on Thursday morning, an airport operator said, with reports saying no one was injured.
The incident involving the two All Nippon Airways aircraft happened shortly after 10:00 am (0100 GMT) at the domestic terminal of Osaka’s Itami airport, a Kansai Airports spokesman told AFP.
“We’ve been told wing tips of two ANA planes scratched each other,” the spokesman said.
No passenger or crew was injured, local media said.
The accident is the latest of a string of mishaps involving Japanese aircraft and airports since the start of the year.
The most serious was a near-catastrophic collision at Haneda airport between a Japan Airlines aircraft and a smaller coast guard plane on January 2.
All 379 people on board the JAL Airbus escaped just before the aircraft was engulfed in flames. Five of the six people on the smaller aircraft died.