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A gigantic banner proclaiming "Free Palestine" unfurled by Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) supporters at a Champions League match has no place in a football stadium, France's interior minister said on Thursday.
The huge banner covered an entire section of the stadium at PSG's home venue of Parc des Princes in Paris Wednesday night ahead of their defeat at the hands of Spanish rivals Atletico Madrid.
Full StoryLebanese state media said an Israeli drone strike on Thursday targeted a car on a key road linking the capital Beirut with the Bekaa plain and eastern neighbor Syria.
"An enemy drone targeted a car in Araya," the National News Agency said, adding the road had been cut off by the strike that comes after two cars were targets on the same route last week, including a van loaded with Hezbollah ammunition.
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Health Minister Firass Abiad told AFP on Wednesday more than 2,600 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since Israel launched intense air strikes on Lebanon more than a month ago.
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The Israeli military said Hezbollah had fired about 120 projectiles across the border from Lebanon on Wednesday, as an AFP journalist reported hearing interceptions over commercial hub Tel Aviv.
Full StoryLebanon's health ministry said 40 people had been killed in Israeli strikes on the country's east including the main city of Baalbek Wednesday, with rescuers still looking for survivors under the rubble.
"The series of Israeli enemy strikes on the Bekaa Valley and Baalbek" killed "40 people and injured 53", the ministry said in a statement giving a preliminary toll.
Full StoryHezbollah claimed a slew of attacks on Wednesday, including two that targeted naval bases near the Israeli city of Haifa and two near Tel Aviv.
Hezbollah fighters "targeted the Stella Maris naval base northwest of Haifa with a salvo of high-quality missiles and a squadron of attack drones," the group said in a statement.
Full StoryIsrael conducted air strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs overnight Thursday, with one raid hitting an area near Lebanon's only international airport.
The pre-dawn raids came after Hezbollah claimed a slew of attacks on Israel, including a missile strike targeting a military base near Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport.
Full StoryStrikes hit south Beirut on Wednesday about an hour after Israel issued evacuation warnings for three areas of the main Hezbollah bastion, AFPTV footage showed.
One of the strikes triggered a loud explosion which was heard across much of the capital, witnesses said.
Full StoryLebanon said Wednesday that it had filed a complaint with the United Nations' labor agency over deadly attacks on communication devices across the country in September, which it blames on Israel.
Lebanese Labor Minister Mustafa Bayram called the attack an "egregious war against humanity, against technology, against work", saying his country had filed the complaint with the International Labor Organization in Geneva.
Full StoryRussia said Wednesday it had "no illusions" about a second Donald Trump administration but would work with him and seek to achieve its "goals" in Ukraine when he takes office.
"We are under no illusions about the American President-elect," Moscow's foreign ministry said in a statement. It added it will "work with" a new U.S. administration and prioritize achieving its "set goals" in Ukraine, saying its conditions on ending the conflict "are unchanged and are well known in Washington".
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