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Lebanon's culture minister has warned that Israeli strikes on the country's south were putting heritage sites in "serious danger", after a castle was directly hit.

The medieval Beaufort castle overlooking Nabatieh was "directly hit... we know that several bombs fell on this fortress", culture minister Ghassan Salame said.

He added: "Bombings fell very close to the ruins of Tyre," a UNESCO World Heritage site.

"The intensification of the battles means that these sites are in serious danger."

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Surrounded by expanding outposts and rising settler violence, Taybeh - the West Bank's last fully Christian Palestinian village - fears for its future.

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Since the US-Israel war on Iran began, the prospects for a diplomatic breakthrough have never been brighter.

But any Memorandum of Understanding will reflect a temporary convergence of interests between adversaries, rather than reconciliation.

Even if an accommodation can be found on the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s nuclear programme, the serious risk of confrontation will only be reduced, not eliminated.



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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity, acknowledged yesterday, that Israeli forces currently occupy 60% of the Gaza Strip.

He also revealed plans to expand control to 70%.

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The 2026 Golden Pen of Freedom will be handed to representatives of global news agencies still operating in Gaza—Agence France-Presse, The Associated Press and Reuters—"whose local journalists continue to provide consistent, professional coverage under extremely challenging conditions", the World Association of News Publishers said

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A total of 77 children have been killed or injured in the last seven days, UNICEF said.

Since the ceasefire began in April, 55 children have been killed, and 212 injured, according to the agency.

UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires described the toll as "staggering".

Israel's attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 3,200 people since 2 March.

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The Sudan Doctors Network said in a statement that the Rapid Support Forces targeted several villages in the Al-Marra area, west of the city of Bara in Sudan's North Kordofan state, leading to the deaths of 27 civilians.

They also noted that the area did not have any military presence and described the attack as a "new crime targeting unarmed civilians"

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On the Greenwich Line, by Egyptian author Shady Lewis, has just won the fiction category in this year’s James Tait Black Prize.


Run by the University of Edinburgh, the James Tait Black Prize is one of the UK’s oldest literary awards, first established in 1919. The winners were selected from a record haul of more than 500 submissions, with five titles shortlisted in each category. Each winner receives £10,000.


Shady Lewis’s On the Greenwich Line – translated from the Arabic by Katharine Halls and published by Peirene Press – follows an Egyptian-born housing officer dealing with the lives of migrants and refugees in East London. It has been praised for its dark humour and sharp portrayal of bureaucracy and displacement.


Shady Lewis is an Egyptian novelist and journalist based in London.

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Rome Pride has barred Keshet Italia, Italy's only Jewish LGBT group, from joining its upcoming annual parade – citing its failure to explicitly condemn Israel's actions in Gaza ​as genocide.

In a statement issued ‌after meeting representatives of Keshet Italia and Keshet Europe, Rome Pride said "the conditions" did not exist for them to enter a float into the Pride Parade on June 20.

Rome Pride organisers said the event was “an open and ​free demonstration," and that anyone who shared the movement's ​founding values could join the march. This ⁠meant signing up to Rome Pride's political platform, which included calling Israel’s ongoing genocide ​in Gaza for what it is.

Rome Pride also stated that ​it distinguished between Israel's government and the Jewish community, including Jewish LGBTQ+ people, and would never hold the latter responsible for what it called war crimes by a "genocidal government".

However, it said Keshet ​Italia bore responsibility for not distancing itself from the "ongoing genocide in Gaza" and for ​making what Pride organisers described as an unacceptable lexical distinction in a recent statement.

Keshet Italia protested against its exclusion. The European Jewish Congress (EJC) also criticised the ​move, saying the decision risked making the participation of Jewish ​associations conditional ⁠on accepting specific narratives.

"No one should be subjected to an ideological test in order to participate in a movement founded on inclusion, dignity and equal rights," the EJC said.

Rome Pride said its political platform was not "a buffet" from which participants ​could pick and choose.

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Israel is breaking all contact with United Nations chief António Guterres, the country's ambassador announced yesterday, saying it was "outrageous" Israel is being blacklisted over alleged sexual violence in conflict zones.

"We are done with this secretary-general," Israeli UN ambassador Danny Danon said in a video posted on X.

"The decision to blacklist Israel and accuse us of using sexual violence as a weapon of war is an outrageous decision.

"The secretary general and his team continue to spread lies against Israel. To put us and Hamas terrorists on the same list, that's unacceptable."

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