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The unscheduled speech by the Hezbollah leader was revealing as much as it was defiant.

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The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said it struck hundreds of rocket launcher sites across southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah's leader attacked Israel for crossing a "red line".

Israeli soldiers pushed three apparently lifeless bodies from rooftops during a raid in the occupied West Bank, according to an Associated Press (AP) journalist at the scene.

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The Titan submersible that imploded on its way to the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board, had malfunctioned just days before last year's fatal dive, the company's scientific director has said.

Hezbollah's leader has accused Israel of carrying out "massacres" with pager and walkie-talkie explosions, saying it wanted to kill "5,000 people in two minutes".

Hassan Nasrallah's speech was calm and even candid at times - but the Secretary-General of Hezbollah was largely defiant and uncompromising as he addressed the embarrassing nature of this week's trojan-horse style attacks - and the posture of the Iran-backed Shia group in the weeks ahead.

A CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted nearly 30 women in postings around the world has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.