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Global Hotspots: Israel Enters ‘New Phase’ with Hezbollah Attacks


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This week, Israel conducted a major sabotage operation against Hezbollah, killing two dozen and injuring thousands in Lebanon. In the Indo-Pacific, a Chinese aircraft carrier sailed through Japanese contiguous waters, and the U.S. is facing TikTok in court while having disrupted a new major Chinese hacking group. In Ukraine, Russian forces made advances in Donetsk and in their counteroffensive in Kursk, while a Ukrainian drone attack took out a weapons depot near Moscow.


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