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Hezbollah steps up rocket fire as Israel sends more troops into Lebanon

BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah has fired another barrage of rockets into Israel, and the militant group’s acting leader vows to keep up pressure that has forced thousands of Israelis from their homes near the Lebanese border. The Israeli military says it sent more ground troops into southern Lebanon on Tuesday, and that a senior Hezbollah commander was killed in an airstrike. Dozens of rockets fired by Hezbollah were aimed as far south as Haifa, and the Israeli government warned residents to the north of the coastal city to limit activities. The Israeli military says Hezbollah launched more than 170 rockets across the border.

Biggest Kashmir party opposed to India’s stripping of region’s autonomy wins most seats in election

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Kashmir’s biggest political party opposed to India’s stripping of the region’s semi-autonomy has won most seats in a local election. That’s according to official results on Tuesday. The vote was seen as a referendum against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government move five years ago. National Conference won 42 seats mainly from the Kashmir Valley, the heartland of the anti-India rebellion. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party secured 29 seats, all from the Hindu-dominated areas of Jammu. India’s main opposition Congress party, which fought the election in alliance with National Conference, succeeded in six constituencies. It’s the first such vote since Modi’s Hindu nationalist government scrapped the Muslim-majority region’s long-held semi-autonomy in 2019.

Water gushes through palm trees and sand dunes after rare rain in the Sahara Desert

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its most drought-stricken regions with more water than many had seen in decades. Southeastern Morocco’s desert is among the most barren and arid places in the world and rarely experiences rain in late summer. Some receive just a few inches of rain per year — an amount dwarfed by last month’s downpours. The bounty of rainfall will likely help refill the large groundwater aquifers but left dozens dead in Morocco and Algeria.

France’s minority government survives a no-confidence vote

PARIS (AP) — France’s minority government has survived a no-confidence vote, two weeks after taking office, getting over the first hurdle placed by left-wing lawmakers to bring down new conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier. The vote was a key test for Barnier, whose cabinet is forced to rely on the far right’s good will to be able to stay in power. The no-confidence motion was brought by a left-wing coalition, the New Popular Front. It received 197 votes, far from the 289 votes needed to pass. The far-right National Rally group, which counts 125 lawmakers, abstained from voting on Tuesday.

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