The World in Brief from The Economist
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Mark All
Israel killed around 15 members of Hizbullah, an Iran-backed militia, in Bint Jbeil, a town in southern Lebanon, according to the Israel Defence Forces.
President Joe Biden said that America would not support an attack by Israel on Iran’s nuclear sites, as Israel weighs a response following Tuesday’s missile attack.
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said that Iran “will pay” after it fired around 200 missiles towards Israel.
Israel said its troops had crossed into southern Lebanon in “limited, localised and targeted raids” against Hizbullah, an Iran-backed militant group.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned Israel that its killing of Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah’s leader, would “not go unavenged” and announced five days of official mourning.
America’s Justice Department indicted three Iranian nationals for allegedly hacking into Donald Trump’s campaign
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, appeared to reject an American-backed proposal for a ceasefire with Hizbullah, saying that rumours of a truce were “not true”.
America is reportedly leading a diplomatic effort to halt mounting hostilities between Hizbullah and Israel and revive negotiations over the war in Gaza.
An Israeli air strike on Beirut killed a senior Hizbullah commander, according to the Israel Defence Forces.
Hizbullah’s deputy secretary-general, Naim Qassem, declared an “open-ended battle of reckoning” against Israel during a funeral for a Hizbullah commander killed by Israeli air strikes on Friday.
An arms depot in the Tver region of Russia, about 300 miles (480km) from the Ukrainian border, was set on fire by Ukrainian drones.
The Federal Trade Commission sued three of America’s biggest pharmacy-benefit managers, which negotiate drug prices on behalf of health-insurance firms
America warned all parties against escalation in the Middle East as Israel and Hizbullah, an Iran-backed militia, exchanged cross-border strikes.
The Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point.
Lebanon’s health minister said that at least 11 people had been killed and nearly 3,000 wounded when pagers used by Hizbullah, an Iran-backed Lebanese militia, exploded in Lebanon and Syria.
The Secret Service, the agency charged with protecting America’s political leaders, said that the man suspected of trying to assassinate Donald Trump never had a line of sight into the former president.
Eight migrants died while trying to cross the English Channel from France to Britain
A third day of torrential rains across central and eastern Europe has put several countries at risk of the worst flooding in four decades
China said it will raise the retirement age for the first time since 1978
The European Central Bank lowered interest rates for the second time this year, with a cut of a quarter of a percentage point, to 3.5%.
America’s annual inflation rate fell to 2.5% in August, from 2.9% in July.
Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, condemned the “not acceptable” shooting of an American-Turkish woman by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank last week and called for “fundamental changes” in Israel Defence Forces’ operations in the t
In a keenly awaited report Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank, proposed a set of policies to make the European Union more competitive.
Russia said that its armed forces had gained full control of Novohrodivka.
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