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Israeli air strikes today killed Lebanese Army General along with two other military personnel
from Beirut and Perez-Generat reports. The Lebanese military said a Brigadier General, a captain and a soldier were killed in the air strike. Lebanese state media said they were killed by a drone attack that targeted their vehicle on a main road in southern Lebanon.
Israel said it hit what it considered as a suspicious vehicle traveling in a combat zone. But added that it does not target the Lebanese military. Lebanon's president condemned the attack as a violation of Lebanese sovereignty. The Lebanese Army has been tasked with disarming Iran-backed Hisbola, which Israel is fighting
“and is key to the ceasefire plan agreed by Israel and Lebanon.”
Israeli strikes and other parts of South Lebanon's Saturday killed six other people, according to Lebanese authorities. Jane Arough and PR News Bay Root.
In California, Democrat Havir Basera has the numbers to possibly become the first Latina
governor. It's unclear who his opponent will be, former Fox News host, Steve Hilton, who is back by President Trump, is in second place, billionaire Tom Stier, a progressive Democrat is in third, but Stier could still secure the second spot. Nellie's mayoral race, Karen Bass won the primary, but, as Frank Stoltz with member
station LAS reports, voters in L.A. are discontent with her. Even though homelessness has dropped by 18% under bass, tent encampments abound, L.A. has more than 40,000 unhoused people the most in the nation. Housing also remains extremely expensive here. Street lights and pot holes aren't getting fixed because of tight budgets.
“And people were generally unsatisfied with the mayor's response to the giant Palisades”
fire last year, she was gone on a diplomatic trip to Ghana when it started, some say she should have stayed in the city amid warnings of severe fire danger. The UK is condemning comments by the Trump administration of the death of a university student in Southern England, who was handcuffed as he laid dying from a stab wound and President Faire reports.
The US State Department accused the UK of having a two tiered policing system, a symptom at set of civilizational decline, while Vice President JD Vance blamed a mass invasion of migrants and what he called UK self-hatred. Without naming Vance, the British government condemned efforts to interfere in UK democracy and stir up division on streets.
18-year-old Henry Novak was falsely accused of racial abuse and handcuffed by police as he laid dying of stab wounds. His killer is now serving a life sentence. But the far right has seized on this case as proof of anti-white prejudice by police.
“Novak's family has said they do not want his death to be used to create division and data”
show people of color are twice as likely to get arrested here. Lauren Freyer and PR News, Bath England. This is NPR. In Taiwan, a senior US diplomat has urged the island to "spend smarter" on its national
defense. The comments come as Taiwan waits for Washington to approve a $14 billion arms
package. From Taipei, young comes and broom-be reports. Taiwan needs to learn from wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and Spence Marta on its defense. That's the message from Raymond Green, director of the American Institute, in Taiwan.
The USA is the factor of embassy on the island. Green says quote "drones are changing the character of warfare. Investing in unmanned systems would be a way for Taiwan to increase deterrence against China." The comments come after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a $14 billion US dollar arms package to Taiwan remains under review.
Thank you on news, I'm young comes and broom-be in Taipei. The body of an American college student from Hoover, Alabama, has been found in a mountainous area outside of Kyoto, Japan. James Weston Higginbotham was vacationing there with his parents and younger brother, but when missing last week, certain rescue volunteers working with Japanese police found
his remains overnight, but officials have not yet released the cause of his death. His mother Nancy wrote in a Facebook post, "The grief we feel is impossible to put into words. The 20-year-old student studied bio-systems engineering at Auburn University and was said to be a naturalist.
His mother told reporters they had argued over her use of chat GPT and the energy required to use AI during their trip. I'm Duahli Psycho Tell and PR News from New York City." New shows, new music, new movies, keeping up with pop culture sometimes feels like a full-time job.
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