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LEBANON, Aug. 09 (YPA) - Three Lebanese soldiers were injured on Saturday, one moderately, while working to defuse unexploded ordnance in the town of Zawtar al-Gharbiya in the Nabatieh district, the Lebanese Army announced. The incident…

GAZA, Aug. 09 (YPA) - A recently leaked photograph reveals that forces from the 92nd Battalion of the Israeli occupation army’s Kfir Brigade detained two elderly Palestinian civilians from the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip…

BEIRUT, Aug. 08 (YPA) - More than 87 civil society, cultural, and popular organizations launched the "Lebanese Against Normalization" initiative in Beirut to oppose normalization projects and counter efforts promoting engagement with…

MUSCAT, Aug. 08 (YPA) - The Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Saturday that negotiations regarding navigation arrangements in the Strait of Hormuz are proceeding in a "positive and constructive" atmosphere, emphasizing the need…

NEW YORK, Aug. 08 (YPA) - The United Nations announced that UNICEF has taken action against a staff member named Yahav Lechner following allegations of spying for Israel during his previous work at the United Nations Population Fund. Deputy…

DAMASCUS, Aug. 08 (YPA) - Israeli occupation forces advanced, on Saturday, into the Al-Mantarah Dam area in the northwestern Quneitra countryside, near the village of Al-Samdaniyah Al-Gharbiyah. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

GAZA, Aug. 08 (YPA) – Over 73,384 Palestinians have been killed and 174,242 injured as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. The Gaza-based Health Ministry in Gaza said Saturday that the death toll…

WASHINGTON, Aug. 08 (YPA) – The US President Donald Trump has threatened to eliminate trade privileges granted to Switzerland. He asserted that Washington possesses the authority to implement unilateral measures capable of inflicting severe…

WASHINGTON, Aug. 08 (YPA) - The U.S. Senate passed a bill to impose new sanctions and tariffs on Russia in a final vote of 86 to 11. The bill will be sent to the House of Representatives for consideration after it returns from its summer…

TEHRAN, Aug. 08 (YPA) – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said some details of the arrangements linked to a memorandum of understanding with the United States remain confidential, while the agreement was signed at the presidential level to…