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Top Israeli officials hinted at a powerful response to attacks by Hezbollah across the northern border with Lebanon, as to the south Israeli troops wage street battles against Hamas in Gaza.

Israeli forces were engaged in intense battles on Monday in Khan Younis, Jabaliya and Shajaiye.

An Israeli official said skirmishes on the border with the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia needed to end, but it wasn’t clear how Israel would achieve that objective.

The last two members, Jimin and Jungkook, began their 18-month military duty in South Korea on Tuesday. Some fans say they should have been exempt.

The Chinese leader wants assurances that the strategically important country isn’t taking Washington’s side against Beijing, analysts say.

The attack was the latest by the group on targets in the Red Sea and the broader region during more than two months of war between Israel and Hamas.

The prime minister testified at an official inquiry into the Covid pandemic on Monday while also defending a flagship immigration policy from rebels in his own party.

Bernardo Arévalo, the most progressive leader to get this far in decades, faces a barrage of legal attacks aimed at preventing an orderly transfer of power.

President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Washington at a critical moment, both on the battlefield and on Capitol Hill.

The wife of the Labour leader Neil Kinnock, she carved her own leftist identity with a seat in the European Parliament and as a British government minister.