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What happened: Safety concerns of human-triggered bolts of electricity, and a peacrab loses its colour in the evening, in this week's pick from the Nature archive.
Cross-source context: AFP / France 24 highlights iran is continuing its retaliatory strikes against Israel, with some damage to homes in central Israel this Tuesday. Israel says Tehran is using cluster munitions, which explode mid-air and indiscriminately scatter bomblets across a wide area.
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Iran is continuing its retaliatory strikes against Israel, with some damage to homes in central Israel this Tuesday. Israel says Tehran is using cluster munitions, which explode mid-air and indiscriminately scatter bomblets across a wide area. FRANCE 24's Carys Garland reports.
Several loud explosions were heard on Tuesday evening in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, Agence France-Presse journalists reported, with a security official reporting a drone and rocket attack on the US embassy.
In a restaurant in the city, where diners did not react to the initial sounds of the blasts, a w
In the predominantly Druze city of Aley, located on Mount Lebanon, authorities scrupulously check the identity documents of the many displaced who seek refuge there. They hope the measures will reassure a population fearful of inciting Israeli strikes over the potential presence of Hezbollah militan
Iran is continuing its retaliatory strikes against Israel, with some damage to homes in central Israel this Tuesday. Israel says Tehran is using cluster munitions, which explode mid-air and indiscriminately scatter bomblets across a wide area.
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Fearing Israeli strikes, a Druze village screens for Hezbollah militants among Lebanon’s displaced.
Iran is continuing its retaliatory strikes against Israel, with some damage to homes in central Israel this Tuesday. Israel says Tehran is using cluster munitions, which explode mid-air and indiscriminately scatter bomblets across a wide area.
Several loud explosions were heard on Tuesday evening in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, Agence France-Presse journalists reported, with a security official reporting a drone and rocket attack on the US embassy. In a restaurant in the city, where diners did not react to the initial sounds of the blasts, a w
In the predominantly Druze city of Aley, located on Mount Lebanon, authorities scrupulously check the identity documents of the many displaced who seek refuge there. They hope the measures will reassure a population fearful of inciting Israeli strikes over the potential presence of Hezbollah militan
Iran is continuing its retaliatory strikes against Israel, with some damage to homes in central Israel this Tuesday. Israel says Tehran is using cluster munitions, which explode mid-air and indiscriminately scatter bomblets across a wide area. FRANCE 24's Carys Garland reports.
Several loud explosions were heard on Tuesday evening in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, Agence France-Presse journalists reported, with a security official reporting a drone and rocket attack on the US embassy.
In a restaurant in the city, where diners did not react to the initial sounds of the blasts, a w
In the predominantly Druze city of Aley, located on Mount Lebanon, authorities scrupulously check the identity documents of the many displaced who seek refuge there. They hope the measures will reassure a population fearful of inciting Israeli strikes over the potential presence of Hezbollah militan
Several loud explosions were heard on Tuesday evening in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, Agence France-Presse journalists reported, with a security official reporting a drone and rocket attack on the US embassy.
In a restaurant in the city, where diners did not react to the initial sounds of the blasts, a w
In the predominantly Druze city of Aley, located on Mount Lebanon, authorities scrupulously check the identity documents of the many displaced who seek refuge there. They hope the measures will reassure a population fearful of inciting Israeli strikes because of the potential presence of Hezbollah m
Israeli airstrikes rained down on three neighbourhoods in Beirut early Tuesday, Lebanese state media reported, as Lebanon said more than one million people had been displaced in two weeks of fighting.
A top intelligence official is stepping down over opposition to strikes on Iran, claiming the United States was pressured into the war by “Israel and its powerful American lobby.” Joe Kent, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced he was leaving his position because President
