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Who was Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah official killed by Israel?
- Israel has attacked the Haret Hreik area in the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital, Beirut, killing five people, including Hezbollah's highest ranking military official. Sunday's attack, which took place amid an uptick in Israeli attacks across Lebanon, was the first on Beirut's southern suburbs in several months and the first without warning since last year's ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was ...

Source: aljazeera.com
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50 children in Nigeria escape after kidnapping as 38 worshippers rescued
- At least 50 of the more than 300 children snatched by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria have escaped their captors, a Christian group said on Sunday, as the president announced the rescue of 38 worshippers seized in a separate attack last week. Gunmen on Friday raided St Mary's co-education school in Niger state, taking 303 children and 12 teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria.  The ...

Source: digitaljournal.com