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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday remained coy over how his group would respond to the assassination of Hamas deputy Saleh Al Arouri in Beirut earlier this week, although he insisted retaliation was inevitable.
“The response is undoubtedly coming,” he said on Friday. “We will not remain silent about a violation of this level because this means that all of Lebanon will be exposed.”
While Hezbollah has insisted it will respond to the attack, it has not given exact details about what a retaliation would look like.
But the Hezbollah chief warned that if Israel's succeeds in achieving its goals in Gaza, south Lebanon would be next.
Mr Nasrallah's speech, which marked the recent death of a close aide, was his second since the killing of Mr Al Arouri on Tuesday.
Hezbollah and its allies in Lebanon have engaged in daily cross-border exchanges with Israel since October 8. Those clashes had been confined to Lebanon's southern border, but the strike that killed Mr Al Arouri was the first to hit Beirut since 2006.
Mr Nasrallah said Hezbollah and its allies had carried out 670 operations on Lebanon-Israel border in the three-month period, averaging six to seven a day.
He insisted that Israel was hiding the true extent of its losses on the border as “part of its strategy”.
Israel has said nine of its soldiers and four civilians have been killed since October 8, when Hezbollah first began its cross-border conflict against Israel in an attempt to deter Israel from its assault on Hamas and its allies in the Gaza Strip.
Mr Nasrallah said Hezbollah's actions were part of efforts “to halt [Israel's] aggression against Gaza” and “to alleviate the military pressure on Gaza”.
He warned the Israelis against escalating the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border, which Hezbollah has attempted to maintain while avoiding a full-scale war.
“The settlers of northern Israel would be the first to pay the price” of a war on Lebanon, he threatened.
Mr Nasrallah also said Lebanon was “facing a historic opportunity today to liberate every inch of our Lebanese land and prevent the enemy from violating our borders and airspace”.
The Hezbollah chief also commended the actions of the group's allies in the region – part of the so-called Axis of Resistance, led by Tehran.
Yemen's Houthis have attacked commercial ships in the Red Sea, disrupting global supply routes with the intended strategy of exerting international pressure on Israel to deter it from its invasion of Gaza. Attacks towards Israel have also been launched from Syria and Iraq.
Anger is brewing in Iraq after a missile, launched by the US, killed a senior leader of an Iran-aligned group. Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani said his government would form a committee tasked with ending the presence of US troops in Iraq, who are part of an international coalition tasked with clamping down on any re-emergence of ISIS.
“Today there is an opportunity to get rid of the presence of American forces in Iraq,” said Mr Nasrallah.
Three tips from La Perle's performers
1 The kind of water athletes drink is important. Gwilym Hooson, a 28-year-old British performer who is currently recovering from knee surgery, found that out when the company was still in Studio City, training for 12 hours a day. “The physio team was like: ‘Why is everyone getting cramps?’ And then they realised we had to add salt and sugar to the water,” he says.
2 A little chocolate is a good thing. “It’s emergency energy,” says Craig Paul Smith, La Perle’s head coach and former Cirque du Soleil performer, gesturing to an almost-empty open box of mini chocolate bars on his desk backstage.
3 Take chances, says Young, who has worked all over the world, including most recently at Dragone’s show in China. “Every time we go out of our comfort zone, we learn a lot about ourselves,” she says.
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MATCH INFO
Manchester City 2 (Mahrez 04', Ake 84')
Leicester City 5 (Vardy 37' pen, 54', 58' pen, Maddison 77', Tielemans 88' pen)
Man of the match: Jamie Vardy (Leicester City)
Day 4, Dubai Test: At a glance
Moment of the day Lahiru Gamage appeared to have been hard done by when he had his dismissal of Sami Aslam chalked off for a no-ball. Replays suggested he had not overstepped. No matter. Two balls later, the exact same combination – Gamage the bowler and Kusal Mendis at second slip – combined again to send Aslam back.
Stat of the day Haris Sohail took three wickets for one run in the only over he bowled, to end the Sri Lanka second innings in a hurry. That was as many as he had managed in total in his 10-year, 58-match first-class career to date. It was also the first time a bowler had taken three wickets having bowled just one over in an innings in Tests.
The verdict Just 119 more and with five wickets remaining seems like a perfectly attainable target for Pakistan. Factor in the fact the pitch is worn, is turning prodigiously, and that Sri Lanka’s seam bowlers have also been finding the strip to their liking, it is apparent the task is still a tough one. Still, though, thanks to Asad Shafiq and Sarfraz Ahmed, it is possible.
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When Umm Kulthum performed in Abu Dhabi
Known as The Lady of Arabic Song, Umm Kulthum performed in Abu Dhabi on November 28, 1971, as part of celebrations for the fifth anniversary of the accession of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan as Ruler of Abu Dhabi. A concert hall was constructed for the event on land that is now Al Nahyan Stadium, behind Al Wahda Mall. The audience were treated to many of Kulthum's most well-known songs as part of the sold-out show, including Aghadan Alqak and Enta Omri.
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