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Three Lebanese medics killed by Israeli strike, Hezbollah retaliates
Smoke rises in the southern Lebanese Marjayoun plain after being hit by Israeli shelling on September 7, 2024, amid the ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters. The Israeli northern town of Metulla can be seen in the background. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP) (Photo by RABIH DAHER/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN contract worker killed in Israeli strike over southern Lebanon
FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
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Some Lebanese who fear war is coming are fleeing to Syria
A general view of the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon is seen from the Choueifat district, southeast of the city, on Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Former five-time Lebanese prime minister Salim Hoss dies at 94
(FILES) Lebanese Prime Minister Salim El-Hoss addresses the 55th United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 14, 2000. The former Lebanese prime minister died on August 25, 2024, at the age of 94, local media reported. (Photo by HENNY RAY ABRAMS / AFP) (Photo by HENNY RAY ABRAMS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israelis stage heavy airstrikes in Lebanon and Hezbollah launches drone attack on Israel
MAYS AL-JABAL, LEBANON - AUGUST 24: Scouts carry a poster of Musa al-Sadr during the funeral of Hezbollah fighter Husein Mohamad Choukair on August 24, 2024 Mays Al-Jabal, Lebanon. The recent assassination of a Hezbollah military commander in Lebanon, as well as the killing of the political leader of Hamas in Iran, has heightened concerns of a wider regional war between Israel and Iran-backed enemies like Hezbollah. Israel and Hezbollah have traded regular cross-border fire since Oct. 7, although both sides have seemed to calculate their attacks to avoid all-out war. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill eight fighters, one child, security sources say
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila on August 21, 2024. The cross-border violence has killed some 590 people in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters but also including at least 128 civilians, according to AFP's tally. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP) (Photo by RABIH DAHER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Officials head to Middle East for Gaza ceasefire talks in race to stop conflict from spreading
A billboard showing Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader who was assassinated on July 31, 2024, with Iran’s newly elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian, in Tehran, on Aug. 1, 2024. Iranians say they have not been told how to prepare should broad hostilities break out between their country and Israel. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)
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Lebanon’s health care system in tatters but still preparing for a possible wider war with Israel
FILE - Lebanon's Health Minister Firas Abiad speaks during a press conference on the first case of cholera, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Lebanon's healthcare, battered by years of crises, is scrambling with already stretched resources to prepare for a possible wider conflict with Israel, the country's health minister told the Associated Press in an interview Monday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
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Earthquake strikes Syria, rattling nerves amid memories of last year’s deadly temblor
Jordan's flag flutters during the Jarash Festival of Culture and Arts in the ancient Roman city of Jarash, 50Km north of the capital Amman on July 26, 2024. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP) (Photo by KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trudeau urges Canadians in Lebanon to leave now because rescue not guaranteed
Global Affairs Canada is warning more than 20,000 Canadians in Lebanon that they can't rely on an evacuation if war engulfs that country. Buildings are damaged after being hit by an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday evening in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Hussein Malla
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Trudeau urges Canadians to leave Lebanon, citing ‘real’ risk of escalation
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech at the Canadian embassy, July 9, 2024 in Washington. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Global Affairs moves diplomats’ children out of Israel as region braces for more violence
The flags of Canada and Israel fly at half mast at a community building on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Canada confirms it pulled diplomats’ kids out of Israel as fear of broader war builds
The flags of Canada and Israel fly at half mast at a community building on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Canadian Armed Forces positioning equipment in Mediterranean for possible Lebanon evacuation
BEIRUT, LEBANON - AUGUST 07: Mourners carry the coffin of Hezbollah fighter Amin Hassan Badreddine, during his funeral service on August 07, 2024 in Beirut Lebanon. Amin Hassan Badreddine, the nephew of late Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine, was killed in southern Lebanon along with three other people on August 06, 2024. The recent assassination of a Hezbollah military commander in Lebanon, as well as the killing of the political leader of Hamas in Iran, has heightened concerns of a wider regional war between Israel and Iran-backed enemies like Hezbollah. Israel and Hezbollah have traded regular cross-border fire since Oct. 7, although both sides have seemed to calculate their attacks to avoid all-out war. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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Hezbollah pledges ‘strong response’ to Israel over killing of military chief
Israeli police and officials work at the impact site of a projectile, after Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah said it launched a swarm of attack drones against military targets in northern Israel, in Nahariya, Israel, August 6, 2024. REUTERS/Rami Shlush ISRAEL OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN ISRAEL
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Canadians in Lebanon making plans to leave after Israeli strikes
Photo of Natasha Feghali taken in Jouneih, Lebanon in June 2024.
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Canadians urged to leave Lebanon as growing tensions see flights cancelled
Lebanese-Canadians Bassel Faraj, Lara Salameh, Christina Faraj and Serena Faraj are shown in Batroun, Lebanon, in a handout photo. The family's flight home to Canada was cancelled Thursday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Caline Makhlouf **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Airlines avoid some Mideast airspace, cancel Israel flights as fears mount
People wait at the arrival terminal of the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. Fears of an escalation in the simmering conflict between Hezbollah and Israel have prompted some airlines to cancel flights to Lebanon, but business appeared to be proceeding as usual Tuesday at the Beirut airport, where many travelers greeted the warnings with a shrug. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Ottawa won’t commit to rescuing Canadians in Lebanon but planning is under way
Global Affairs Canada is warning more than 20,000 Canadians in Lebanon that they can't rely on an evacuation if war engulfs that country. Buildings are damaged after being hit by an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday evening in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Hussein Malla
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With Israel and Hezbollah on edge of war, peacekeepers in Lebanon have no peace to keep and nowhere to go
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