— 🇪🇬/🇺🇸 NEW: In their meeting, Egyptian President al-Sisi pleaded with American General Q.C. Brown to 'exert all efforts and intensify pressures to defuse tension and stop the state of escalation that threatens the security and stability of the entire region.'

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— 🇹🇷/🇮🇶 Two Kurdish journalists, Gulistan Tara and Hero Bahadin, were killed in northern Iraq when their vehicle was struck by a Turkish drone in Sulaymaniyah province on Friday.

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: An explosive device was detonated, targeting a bus of settlers near Bethlehem in the West Bank.

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— 🇯🇴 NEW: Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi: ”We call on the Security Council to take deterrent and effective measures against Netanyahu and his ministers. Netanyahu is obstructing the exchange deal and wants to push the region towards a regional war to save his political future and implement his racist ideology.”

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— 🇵🇸 NEW: Palestinian Ministry of Health reports that Polio vaccines have been delivered to Gaza.

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: The U.S. Navy plans to temporarily sideline 17 ships due to a manpower shortage, particularly a lack of experienced merchant mariners to crew support vessels.

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇶 NEW: Iranian Shia pilgrims during the eve of Arbaeen gathered at banners and at the office of the extremist Shia scholar Ayatollah Sadiq Shirazi in Iraq, disavowing him and his supporters, chanting: 'We are at your service, 'O Khamenei!'

Ayatollah Sadiq Shirazi is an extremely controversial and sectarian cleric, whose followers and disciples routinely insult or mock Sunni Muslims and their revered figures, like Aisha, the wife of the Prophet, and some of his early companions.

Most Iranians follow Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as their religious leader, who is pro 'Islamic Unity' between Sunni and Shia Muslims. He has condemned the Shirazis and their affiliates for being Western-backed agents who incite disunity between the Muslims.

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After today's Hezbollah strikes:

— 🇮🇱 WATCH: In a bizarre video, during an ultra-Orthodox Haredi Jewish protest against conscription, a Haredi youth was filmed yelling: “Ismael Haniyeh was murdered in cold blood! We prefer Hamas' rule here!” — Credit to 'ireallyhateyou' on Twitter.

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— 🇷🇺/🇫🇷 NEW: The Russian Embassy in France said French authorities refused to engage on their requests for access to Telegram founder Pavel Durov after his reported detention.

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— 🇮🇶 NEW: The official tally of Arbaeen pilgrims entering Karbala in Iraq this year has been recorded as 21,480,525

The Arbaeen pilgrimage, where millions of Shia Muslims visit the grave of the Prophet Muhammad's ‎ﷺ grandson in Karbala, remains the largest annual pilgrimage in the world, more than 10x larger than the Hajj.

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— 🇱🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: Reports out of Lebanon say that Israeli planes broke the sound barrier while flying in the skies in the south of the country and in the skies of Beirut

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 NEW: Zelensky: Russia used more than 100 missiles and about 100 drones in today's strike on Ukraine

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— 🇩🇪 NEW: Olaf Scholz vowed to step up deportations and bring down irregular migration on Monday during a visit to the city of Solingen, where three people were killed in a mass stabbing over the weekend

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— 🇱🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: Hezbollah: We targeted espionage equipment at the 'Ramia' site with a suicide drone and achieved a direct hit

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