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Middle East latest: Displaced people return to south Lebanon as ceasefire appears to hold

Long-displaced residents of south Lebanon started returning to their homes amid celebrations hours after a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group took effect early Wednesday morning

World - ABC News - 7 hours ago

Latest typhoon batters the Philippines, displacing about 400,000 people

A powerful typhoon has wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it barreled across the northern Philippines in the ...

World - ABC News - November 17

Latest typhoon lashes the Philippines, causing tidal surges and displacing thousands

Super typhoon Man-Yi swept across the Philippines’ main island of Luzon on Sunday, after triggering more than a million evacuations and damaging buildings.

Displaced residents return to southern Lebanon as Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire appears to hold – Middle East crisis live

Ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect at 02.00GMT; US to renew push for Gaza truce, says Biden. Full report: Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire comes into force Down to the final ...

World - The Guardian - 38 minutes ago

Middle East latest: Hezbollah picks a new leader and Israel bombs southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has chosen Sheikh Naim Kassem to succeed longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month

World - ABC News - October 29

Middle East latest: Israel pounds Beirut suburb Dahiyeh with airstrikes overnight

Israel’s air force pounded Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh overnight, though casualty numbers are not yet known

World - ABC News - November 1

Middle East latest: Dozens killed in Gaza as Israel says it targeted a weapons facility

Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes have killed at least 30 people in Gaza, including on a home where displaced families were sheltering

World - ABC News - November 5

Middle East latest: Israeli defense minister officially steps down

Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant has officially stepped down in a ceremony that replaced him with Israel Katz, the former foreign minister, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired ...

World - ABC News - November 8

Middle East latest: ICC issues warrant for Israel's Netanyahu as Gaza death toll soars past 44,000

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and a Hamas leader

World - ABC News - 5 days ago

Middle East latest: Ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon begins

A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon has begun

World - ABC News - 10 hours ago

Middle East latest: US won't halt any weapons to Israel over Gaza humanitarian aid situation

Eight international aid groups say Israel has failed to meet U.S. demands to allow greater humanitarian access to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip

World - ABC News - November 12

Middle East latest: Officials in West Bank say Israeli raid has killed 3

Palestinian officials said that an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank killed at least three people

World - ABC News - October 31

Middle East latest: Israel ends agreement with UN agency providing aid in Gaza

Israel says it's terminated the agreement facilitating the work of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the main aid provider in Gaza

World - ABC News - November 4

Middle East latest: Rescue workers pull 30 bodies from apartments in Lebanon after Israeli strike

Lebanon’s Civil Defense service says they have pulled 30 bodies from the rubble of an apartment building that Israel struck the night before

World - ABC News - November 6

Middle East latest: Large airstrikes hit Beirut suburbs as Israel expands northern Gaza operations

Several large airstrikes have hit Beirut’s southern suburbs, including one on a site adjacent to Lebanon’s only international airport

World - ABC News - November 7

Middle East latest: Israeli strike kills 3 people in central Gaza, Palestinian officials say

Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike hit a tent sheltering a displaced family in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least three people including the parents of twins

World - ABC News - November 11

Middle East latest: 3 young siblings killed in Gaza as Israeli strikes leave 6 dead in Lebanon

Palestinian medics say an Israeli strike on a home in northern Gaza killed three siblings aged 6 and under, among at least six people killed in airstrikes in the war-ravaged territory

World - ABC News - November 13

Middle East latest: Workers search through rubble in eastern Lebanon where Israeli strike killed 13

Rescue teams are searching through rubble in a town near the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon where an Israeli strike hit a civil defense center the night before, killing at least 13

World - ABC News - November 15

Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 11 as Lebanon cease-fire efforts appear to gain steam

Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people across southern Lebanon, including a mother, father and their three kids in a home