
THE Lebanese Red Cross says an Israeli air strike on a residential building in northern Lebanon has killed at least 18 people.
The attack on the block of flats in the village of Aito came hours after the European Union slammed Israeli attacks on United Nations peacekeepers.
On Sunday a Hezbollah aerial attack on an army base in northern Israel killed four soldiers and severely wounded seven others, the Israeli military said.

For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE

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