
LEBANESE health authorities reported that at least three people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in an Israeli strike on Beirut today.
Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV reported that a drone fired several missiles on the heavily populated residential area known as Dahiyeh.
The strike came hours after Hezbollah hit Israel with 140 rockets today. Tensions threaten to spill into all-out war.

ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors

While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE