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Iran on Thursday executed a man convicted of membership in banned opposition group MEK and collaboration with Israel.

The UN said Thursday it was "working on" maintaining a presence in Lebanon once the mandate for its UNIFIL peacekeeping force expires at the end of the year.

Lebanon's leaders said on Thursday that Israel ha committed a war crime after a Lebanese journalist was killed in a targeted strike in the country's south.

Amal Khalil, a veteran Lebanese journalist killed in an Israeli strike, is being mourned nationwide for decades of fearless reporting from south Lebanon.

US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been acquitted in Kuwait after spending 51 days in detention.

Most Palestinians in Iraq originate from the villages of Ijzim, Jaba, and Ayn Ghazal near Haifa, as well as from Jaffa, Nablus, and Jerusalem.

Saudi Arabia and Turkey are advancing plans for a railway linking Makkah and Medina to Istanbul via Jordan and Syria.

Activities revived depopulated Palestinian villages as residents marked memory and asserted return rights during Independence Day commemorations.

Israeli strikes killed five people in Lebanon, including veteran journalist Amal Khalil, despite a ceasefire as Beirut condemned the attacks as war crimes.

Israel is set to reopen the dismantled Ganim settlement as it quietly accelerates illegal expansion across the occupied West Bank.