🤔 Former Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin “Secretly Used” JPMorgan and HSBC for Payments – FT

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⚠️ Israel’s ‘Operation Northern Arrows’ Kills at Least 558 in Lebanon

The IDF has pounded its neighbor for a second day – with around 1,850 people also injured, the Lebanese health ministry said.

Israel launched fresh air strikes on Tuesday prompting thousands more to flee southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah returned fire launching over 60 rockets into northern Israel.

World leaders have expressed alarm over the rapid escalation in fighting, with the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell warning “we are almost in a full-fledged war.”

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🤔 JUST IN: Hezbollah Issues Official Statement in “Defense of Lebanon and its People”

Previous announcements have just been in steadfast support for the people of Palestine in Gaza.

Declaration of war?

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⚠️ NEW: Hezbollah announces using Fadi-3 rockets in Israeli army base attack - marking first use in escalation

Hezbollah said that it struck Shimshon military base using Fadi-3 rockets “in defense of Lebanon and its people.”

It said that the base “was a leading processing center and a regional processing unit.”

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⚠️ Lebanese hospitals ‘overwhelmed’ by wounded - WHO

“We have some evidence, and we have some documentation that shows that at least there were some attacks on health facilities,” WHO official Abdinasir Abubakar said.

Four healthcare workers had been killed by strikes, he added.

Israel has denied that it is targeting civilians and claimed it had taken measures to protect them.

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➡️ Tucker Carlson Lambasts Warmonger Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro

“I saw a photograph of your Governor Josh Shapiro standing with a foreign leader, signing an artillery shell that is going to kill civilians in a country we’re not at war with, with a grin on his face…I was disgusted by it, actually, I was enraged by it.”

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⚠️ NEW: Sri Lanka's newly appointed President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolves parliament - paving way for snap elections on Nov 14

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🇮🇷⚔️🇮🇱 Urgent 🚨 Sirens sound in Tel Aviv city.

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😳 China test-fires intercontinental ballistic missile into Pacific Ocean - first known test since 1980

The ICBM carried a dummy warhead and fell into a designated area of the sea Wednesday, the Defense Ministry said in a statement posted to social media.

The launch by the PLA’s Rocket Force was part of routine annual training, complied with international law and was not directed against any country or target, according to the statement.

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❌ Hezbollah ‘fires first ballistic missile’ at Tel Aviv

Hezbollah said it had fired a ballistic missile towards Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning, the first time it has claimed such a strike in its nearly year-long battle with Israel.

The group said it had targeted Israeli spy agency Mossad’s headquarters, who it said was responsible for assassinating its leaders and blowing up its pagers and walkie-talkies.

Israel’s military said it was the “first time ever” that a missile fired by Hezbollah had reached the Tel Aviv area before it was intercepted by its air defences. It reported no injuries from the attack.

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🇬🇧 British Army Sends Troops to Cyprus as UK Nationals Told to Leave Lebanon ‘Immediately’

The deployment of 700 troops comes as the situation in the Middle East deteriorates.

Brits have been told to ‘leave immediately’ by the UK govt - as potential commercial escape routes get cut off on a daily basis.

The RAF has planes and transport helicopters on standby to provide support if necessary.

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