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ICJ presiding Judge Nawaf Salam reads the ruling on an urgent plea by South Africa for judges to order Israel to halt its military operations in Gaza and withdraw from the enclave, in May last year.

Lebanon names ICJ chief as PM of distressed nation, angering Hezbollah

The choice of diplomat Nawaf Salam, the chief justice in The Hague, to lead the country’s revival underlines a major shift in the power balance.

  • Omar Tamo and Dana Khraiche

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Cecilia Sala, left, an Italian journalist who was detained on Dec. 19 as she was reporting in Iran, is welcomed by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni as she landed at Rome’ Ciampino airport after being released.

Freed! Italian journalist Sala walks out of Iran prison, returns home

Celilia Sala, 29, was working under a regular journalistic visa when she was detained in Tehran on December 19, accused of “violating the laws of the Islamic Republic”.

  • Crispian Balmer
Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained on December 19 as she was reporting in Iran, Italy’s foreign ministry said.

Iran arrests Italian journalist in case of apparent hostage diplomacy

Italian media said Cecilia Sala’s detention was believed to be aimed at securing the release of an Iranian-Swiss drone expert who was detained in Italy.

The Israeli strikes on Sanaa left the airport control tower a blackened shell.

WHO chief caught up in Israeli airstrike ‘lesson’ on Yemen

“The Houthis will also learn what Hamas, Hezbollah, the Assad regime have learned. This lesson will be understood across the Middle East,” the Israeli PM said.

  • Daniel Hardaker and Jotam Confino
Police secures the area near the Israeli embassy in Stockholm after a suspected shooting on October 1, 2024.

Iran is hiring children to attack Israeli targets in Europe

Investigators say three attacks this year are part of a new trend in which Iran-affiliated actors recruit local criminals to strike at targets in Europe.

  • Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth
Ben Macintyre has written The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama.

This book is a gripping tale of a siege that stopped the world

Ben MacIntyre’s thrilling account of the Iranian Embassy siege offers astonishing new details. Prince Andrew was among those who tried to get involved.

  • Simon Caterson
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Mick Kelly and Penny Wong.

Australia’s damning of Israel is poisonous. I say that as an ex-Labor minister

Israel has the right under international law to use military force to defend its very existence. The Albanese government’s response is despicable.

  • Mike Kelly
People celebrate while waving Syrian flags while stuck in traffic leading up to the Lebanon Syria Maasna border crossing in Bar Elias, Lebanon.

With Assad gone, a brutal dictatorship ends. But the new risks are huge

The overthrow of the Assad government could mean Iran’s pathway to Hezbollah is cut off. Now Iran, newly vulnerable, will have to decide between negotiation and the bomb.

  • David E. Sanger
Syrian opposition fighters ride along the streets in the aftermath of the opposition’s takeover of Hama, Syria, on Friday.

Countries close borders after rebels’ stunning advance against Assad

A collection of rebel groups aiming to depose the Assad regime are advancing towards the capital, Damascus, making Iran and others nervous.

  • Raja Abdulrahim, Farnaz Fassihi and Thomas Fuller
A kibbutz member returns to a destroyed house in Upper Galilee, Israel, near the Lebanese border, on Monday.

Rekindled border dispute blamed for deadly Israeli strikes in Lebanon

Israel has unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last week, killing at least 11 people overnight.

  • Natalie Meltzer and Sally About Aljoud

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