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Today — 1 September 2025Main stream

Israel Says It Killed Abu Obeida, Spokesman for Hamas’s Armed Wing

Hamas did not immediately comment on the Israeli military’s claim that Abu Obeida, one of the armed group’s best-known officials in the Arab world, had been killed.

© Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times

A banner featuring Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing, hung in Beirut, Lebanon, last year.
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U.S. Proposes a ‘Gang-Suppression Force’ for Haiti

29 August 2025 at 06:25
More than a year after a contingent of Kenyan police arrived in Haiti, the United States is proposing to replace the force with something bigger and better financed.

© Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times

Kenyan police officers, part of an international security mission, last year in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The mission has been largely ineffective in curbing the country’s gang violence.

U.N. Votes to Withdraw Peacekeepers From Lebanon Over Next Two Years

29 August 2025 at 04:14
With the decades-old peacekeeping mission set to expire, the U.N. Security Council chose to extend it through 2026, then gradually withdraw the forces the following year.

© Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times

A U.N. peacekeeper, center, talking with a soldier at a Lebanese army checkpoint in March.
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