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Claims of military leaders or equipment present in civilian areas ‘does not justify attacks’: HRW BEIRUT: Qassem Al-Qadhi left his home in east Lebanon this weekend to buy bread for 17 family members, but when he returned they were all dead. A Zionist air strike on Sunday hit the village of Zaboud in the Bekaa valley, killing a whole family, the national news agency NNA said. Qadhi said it was his wife, children and grandchildren. They were killed in an instant. The 57-year-old says the only member of the family who survived was his 25-year-old son Hussein, who had headed off to do his military service just before the strike. “It was 11 am. We were all sitting in front of the house and then I went to buy them bread,” he told AFP by phone. While he was at the bakery he heard a loud explosion, he said. “I tried to call them, then rushed home but there was no one left. Just body parts,” Qadhi said. “Seventeen people — including my son’s fiancee and her mother, my wife, my three sons a...

Envoy hails countries and companies divesting from the Zionist entity GENEVA: The Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations and International Organization in Geneva Ambassador Nasser Al-Hain condemned Wednesday the international silence on the crimes committed by a “rogue state in defiance of international law” against the Palestinian people, warning that this silence amounts to “complicity” if immediate and effective steps are not taken to stop these violations. This came in a speech delivered by Hain at the 57th Human Rights Council under Item 7 of the agenda dedicated to discussing the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories. He warned that the continued impunity and disregard for these violations undermine respect for international law and weaken the credibility of international institutions. Hain expressed his regrets over attempts to change the true narrative and exonerate the perpetrators and encourage them to ignore all interna...

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT: The Zionist entity said on Wednesday eight of its soldiers were killed in combat in south Lebanon as its forces thrust into its northern neighbor in a campaign against Hezbollah. The losses were the deadliest suffered by the Zionist military on the Lebanon front in the past year of border-area clashes between the Zionist entity and its Iranian-backed Lebanese foe. Hezbollah said its fighters were engaging Zionist forces inside Lebanon on Wednesday, reporting ground clashes for the first time since Zionist forces pushed over the border. Hezbollah said it had destroyed three Zionist Merkava tanks with rockets near the border town of Maroun El Ras. The Zionist military said regular infantry and armored units were joining its ground operations in Lebanon, a day after Iran fired 200 missiles into the Zionist entity, a barrage which raised concerns that the oil-producing Middle East could be caught up in a wider conflict. Zionist military strikes across the Gaza Strip kil...

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) sees social media as the main reason for the rising number of Filipinos marrying or becoming partners of foreign nationals. In 2022, the CFO recorded 6,854 marriages or partnerships with foreign nationals, a 40.1 percent increase from the 4,891 “intermarriages” recorded in 2021. “First of all, what we see in the increase in the marriage rate of Filipinos or Filipinos with foreign partners is because of social media, (that) is number one; matchings; letters, introduction of their friends,” CFO chairperson Romulo Arugay said at the Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon public briefing yesterday. Arugay said the agency has been registering a high number of intermarriages since 2007, but the figures went down during the COVID-19 pandemic. From over 6,500 Filipinos who married foreign nationals, only 600 are men, he said. Most of them are married to Americans, Japanese, Germans, Canadians and Australians, Arugay said. Arugay warned Fi...

MANILA, Philippines — Letting China sustain its aggression in the West Philippine Sea would make other countries doubt the strength of international law currently being asserted by the Philippines, Commodore Jay Tarriela of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said. “Allowing China to blatantly disregard the established rules-based order threatens the very foundation that we all depend on,” he wrote in a post on X last Tuesday. He added, “If we permit this, countries worldwide may forget why this order was created in the first place. Nations could begin to doubt the significance of adhering to international law if powerful bullies can easily violate it.” Tarriela also said defiance of other countries to a rules-based order would result in the prevalence of cruelty. He wrote, “This could lead us back to a time when might makes right, undermining the global structures that keep human greed, savagery and barbarism in check. Such a scenario would not only invite challenges from aggressive ...

JERUSALEM, undefined — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that Israel had "settled the score" with the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike in Beirut. "We settled the score with the one responsible for the murder of countless Israelis and many citizens of other countries, including hundreds of Americans and dozens of French," he said in his first statement since Nasrallah's death on Friday. He was alluding to 1983 bombings in Beirut that killed 63 people at the US embassy and 241 US marines and 58 French paratroopers at their barracks. Netanyahu said that as long as "terrorist" Nasrallah was alive, he "would quickly restore the capabilities we had eroded from Hezbollah" in a series of recent operations. "So, I gave the order -- and Nasrallah is no longer with us." The Israeli premier said his country was on the cusp of "what appears to be a historic turning point" in the fight agai...

Courtesy photo through Defense Visual Information Distribution Service MANILA, Philippines — Two Chinese warships shadowed the Philippines’ joint drills with the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand in the West Philippine Sea on Saturday, September 28. The military saw the People's Liberation Army Navy vessels “tailing” and "monitoring" the joint sail of the five countries without outright interfering with the maritime drills, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said on Sunday, September 29. The Chinese ships got as close as around half a nautical mile ("1,000 yards") to 14 nautical miles, but showed “no aggressive maneuvers," said Rear Admiral Roy Vincent Trinidad, Navy spokesman for the West Philippine Sea. "[The Chinese ships] acted in a professional manner," Trinidad said, adding that the incident proves China "behaves" during similar maritime drills. The joint drills — the fourth overall and the first with N...