2023 Articles

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John Ashton, Beverly Hills Cop actor, dies aged 76

 

Veteran character actor’s career spanned over 50 years in TV and films, including Little Big League and Midnight Run

 

Associated Press

Sun 29 Sep 2024 22.32 CEST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/29/john-ashton-dead-beverly-hills-cop-actor

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Middle East crisis live: strikes by Israeli air force hit Yemen; more than 50 killed in Lebanon

 

IDF confirms dozens of aircraft involved in attacking what it said were ‘military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime’

 

LIVE Updated 9m ago

Maya Yang (now); Tom Ambrose, Yohannes Lowe, Alexandra Topping and Helen Livingstone (earlier)

Sun 29 Sep 2024 22.56 CEST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/29/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-bombardment-lebanon-hezbollah-hassan-nasrallah-latest
 

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Middle East crisis live: Israel’s defence minister hints at Lebanon ground invasion as Hezbollah deputy says group will fight on

 

Yoav Gallant tells border troops ‘we will use all our capabilities – including you’

 

LIVE Updated 9m ago

Léonie Chao-Fong (now) with Martin Belam, Sammy Gecsoyler and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)

Mon 30 Sep 2024 16.16 CEST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/israel-attacks-live-blog-lebanon-yemen-hamas-hezbollah-news-updates-middle-east-crisis
 

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Kris Kristofferson, US country singer and actor, dies aged 88

 

Prolific artist who was a major star in both Nashville and Hollywood retired in 2021 after a six-decade career

 

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Mon 30 Sep 2024 00.33 CEST








https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/30/kris-kristofferson-us-country-singer-and-actor-dies-aged-88
 

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Middle East crisis live: Israel launches small raids across Lebanon as defence minister says ‘next phase’ of war will ‘begin soon’

 

Israel launches small raids across Lebanon border with larger ground operation planned, AP reports; Yoav Gallant’s comments further indicate that Israel plants to mount a ground invasion of Lebanon

 

LIVE Updated 1m ago

Léonie Chao-Fong (now) with Martin Belam, Sammy Gecsoyler and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)

Mon 30 Sep 2024 19.22 CEST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/israel-attacks-live-blog-lebanon-yemen-hamas-hezbollah-news-updates-middle-east-crisis
 

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Israel ‘currently conducting’ ground operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon

 

US state department said it was told Israeli forces were targeting infrastructure near the border

 

Jason Burke, Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem and William Christou in Beirut

Mon 30 Sep 2024 21.25 CEST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/israel-threatens-what-could-be-ground-offensive-against-hezbollah-in-lebanon
 

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US looks unable to talk Netanyahu out of planned invasion of Lebanon

 

An emboldened Israel appears to believe it can safely ignore a lame duck US president and grab the chance to reset the Middle East’s security dynamics

 

Mon 30 Sep 2024 19.55 CEST

Andrew Roth in Jerusalem

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/us-looks-unable-to-talk-netanyahu-out-of-planned-invasion-of-lebanon

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The decapitation of Hezbollah leaves Iran weighing its options

 

Masoud Pezeshkian is under domestic pressure but analysts point to the high risk of a direct attack on Israel

 

Mon 30 Sep 2024 19.13 CEST

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/the-decapitation-of-hezbollah-leaves-iran-weighing-its-options

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Middle East crisis live: Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs as IDF orders residents to evacuate

 

Israel carried out two airstrikes in Dahieh; IDF issues evacuation orders for several areas in Beirut’s southern suburbs

 

LIVE Updated now

Léonie Chao-Fong (now) with Martin Belam, Sammy Gecsoyler and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)

Mon 30 Sep 2024 23.21 CEST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/israel-attacks-live-blog-lebanon-yemen-hamas-hezbollah-news-updates-middle-east-crisis
 

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Middle East crisis live: Iran preparing to ‘imminently’ launch ballistic missile attack against Israel, US official warns

 

US official warns of ‘severe consequences’ if attack takes place

 

LIVE Updated 8m ago

Yohannes Lowe (now); Martin Belam and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)

Tue 1 Oct 2024 16.22 CEST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/01/israel-lebanon-attacks-live-blog-ground-offensive-hezbollah-hamas-gaza-war
 

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How fentanyl traffickers are exploiting a U.S. trade law to kill Americans

 

Hundreds of millions of small packages pour into the U.S. each year from China – some with fentanyl ingredients stashed inside. Now, a fight is shaping up over whether and how to undo the rule change that helped set off this deadly import boom

 

By DRAZEN JORGIC, LAURA GOTTESDIENER, KRISTINA COOKE and STEPHEN EISENHAMMER

Filed Oct. 1, 2024, 11 a.m. GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/drugs-fentanyl-shipping/

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Second wave of missiles seen above Jerusalem as Israel says Iran has launched attack – Middle East crisis live

 

Israelis hunker down in bomb shelters as warning sirens sound in Jerusalem; US reportedly assisting Israel in defence against missiles

 

LIVE Updated 5m ago

Joanna Walters (now); Yohannes Lowe, Martin Belam and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)

Tue 1 Oct 2024 19.25 CEST









https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/01/israel-lebanon-attacks-live-blog-ground-offensive-hezbollah-hamas-gaza-war

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Israel threatens retaliation for Iran missile attack that US calls ‘twice the scope’ of April assault – Middle East crisis live

 

Israeli military says attack ‘will have consequences’; US defence department says attack was much larger than Iran’s first ever direct assault

 

LIVE Updated 5m ago

Joanna Walters (now); Yohannes Lowe, Martin Belam and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)

Tue 1 Oct 2024 22.27 CEST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/01/israel-lebanon-attacks-live-blog-ground-offensive-hezbollah-hamas-gaza-war
 

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Six killed and 10 wounded in shooting and knife attack in Israeli city of Jaffa

 

Two men reportedly opened fire and stabbed people on train and in nearby street before being shot dead

 

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem

Tue 1 Oct 2024 21.24 CEST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/shooting-knife-attack-israeli-seaside-city-of-jaffa
 

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John Amos, father in groundbreaking sitcom Good Times, dies at 84

 

The TV patriarch, who also played the older Kunta Kinte on the mini-series Roots, died on 21 August, according to a statement from his son

 

Adrian Horton

Tue 1 Oct 2024 20.41 CEST







https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/oct/01/john-amos-good-times-dies
 

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Middle East crisis live: Israel and Hezbollah fighters clash on the ground in Lebanon after Israel sends in more troops

 

Israel announces death of soldier killed ‘during combat in Lebanon’ after Hezbollah reports clashes with Israeli forces in border village

 

LIVE Updated 1m ago

Tom Ambrose (now); Martin Belam and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)

Wed 2 Oct 2024 14.06 CEST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/02/israel-iran-attacks-latest-updates-live-hezbollah-lebanon-beirut-strikes
 

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Middle East crisis live: Israel and Hezbollah fighters clash on the ground in Lebanon after Israel sends in more troops

 

Israel announces death of soldier killed ‘during combat in Lebanon’ after Hezbollah reports clashes with Israeli forces in border village

 

LIVE Updated 1m ago

Tom Ambrose (now); Martin Belam and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)

Wed 2 Oct 2024 14.06 CEST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/02/israel-iran-attacks-latest-updates-live-hezbollah-lebanon-beirut-strikes
 

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Buried US second world war bomb explodes at Japanese airport

 

Unexpected blast at Miyazaki airport makes crater in taxiway and leads to grounding of 80 flights but no injuries

 

Associated Press

Wed 2 Oct 2024 13.50 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/buried-us-second-world-war-bomb-explodes-at-japanese-miyazaki-airport
 

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Exclusive: Iran's Khamenei warned Nasrallah of Israeli plot to kill him, sources say

 

By Samia Nakhoul and Laila Bassam

October 2, 20244:42 PM GMT+2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-khamenei-warned-nasrallah-israeli-plot-kill-him-sources-say-2024-10-02/

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US dockworkers strike, halting half the nation's ocean shipping

 

By Doyinsola Oladipo and David Shepardson

October 2, 20243:34 AM GMT+2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vid

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-east-coast-dockworkers-head-toward-strike-after-deal-deadline-passes-2024-10-01/

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US would not support Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, says Biden

 

Top Israeli diplomat at UN warns his country’s retaliation for Iranian missile attack will be heavier than Tehran ‘could ever have imagined’

 

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem and Julian Borger

Wed 2 Oct 2024 20.41 CEST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/us-wont-support-israeli-attack-on-irans-nuclear-sites-says-biden
 

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Middle East crisis live: apparent Israeli strike hits medical centre in central Beirut

 

IDF says it is carrying out ‘targeted’ airstrike in Lebanon’s capital as multiple blasts are reported

 

LIVE Updated 13m ago

Helen Livingstone (now) Léonie Chao-Fong, Tom Ambrose, Martin Belam and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)

Thu 3 Oct 2024 00.16 CEST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/02/israel-iran-attacks-latest-updates-live-hezbollah-lebanon-beirut-strikes
 

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Lebanese army says it has returned fire at Israel for the first time – Middle East crisis live

 

Previously country’s army had said it was not party to Hezbollah’s conflict with its neighbour

 

Yohannes Lowe (now); Martin Belam and Helen Livingstone (earlier)

Thu 3 Oct 2024 16.10 CEST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/03/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-war-strikes-live-updates-middle-east-crisis
 

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Israeli strikes kill nine in central Beirut as blasts heard across Lebanese capital

 

Medical centre is target of second attack on central city this week after eight IDF soldiers killed on frontier

 

William Christou in Beirut and agencies

Thu 3 Oct 2024 14.50 CEST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/israel-strikes-beirut-lebanon-death-toll-hezbollah-war
 

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Explosions reported in Beirut, with blasts heard near Lebanese capital’s airport – Middle East crisis live

 

Blasts reported shortly after Israel issued new evacuation orders for Beirut’s southern suburbs

 

LIVE Updated 2m ago

Léonie Chao-Fong (now); Yohannes Lowe, Martin Belam and Helen Livingstone (earlier)

Thu 3 Oct 2024 23.53 CEST







Vid

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/03/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-war-strikes-live-updates-middle-east-crisis