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Explainer: Who is Hashem Safieddine, claimed dead by Israel but seen as the future Hezbollah leader?

Hashem Safieddine, whose killing was confirmed on Tuesday by Israel's military in its confrontation with Hezbollah, is widely seen as Hassan Nasrallah's likely successor as head of the Iran-backed group.

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People watch a building collapse after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike yesterday in Ghobeiri, Beirut. Photo: AP

Israel's military said it had killed three Hezbollah commanders and some 70 fighters in southern Lebanon in the past 48 hours, a day after confirming it had killed Hashem Safieddine, the militant group's heir apparent leader.

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Israeli strikes pound Beirut as Hezbollah says it hit Benjamin Netanyahu&s home in drone attack

The Israeli military levelled a building in a suburb of Beirut yesterday that it said housed Hezbollah &facilities,& sending smoke and debris into the air a few hundred metres from where a spokesperson for the militant group had just briefed journalists about a weekend drone attack that damaged Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu&s house.

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US-based Turkish cleric accused of orchestrating 2016 attempted coup dies aged 83

The US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup against Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has died. He was 83.

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Ceasefire a long shot as Antony Blinken makes latest trip to Middle East

US secretary of state Antony Blinken began another push for a ceasefire when he headed to the Middle East yesterday, the US State Department said, in a bid to kickstart negotiations geared towards ending the Gaza war and also defusing the spillover conflict in Lebanon.

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Seven Israelis?arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran

Seven Israeli citizens have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran on Israeli army bases and taking pictures of the Iron Dome missile defence system.

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