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Welcome to Wednesday, where Israel sends more troops to Lebanon and Netanyahu vows retaliation after Iran’s missile strike, Baltimore dockworkers join East Coast strikes, and a South Korea beauty pageant contestant wows judges at 81. Meanwhile, for French daily Les Echos, Stefano Lupieri speaks with winegrowers who are looking at ways to adapt to the new market needs and extreme climatic hazards.
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The front page of daily Israel Hayom is dedicated to the 180 Iranian missiles launched at Israel on Tuesday. The attack, which was mostly intercepted, led Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet to meet in a bunker to discuss Israel's response. The newspaper also reports that at least six people were killed in a shooting and knife attack in the Jaffa area of Tel Aviv, shortly before the Iranian missile attack. Police said two attackers were “neutralized” by members of the public.
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• Israel sends more troops to Lebanon, Netanyahu vows retaliation, Tel Aviv shooting. At least six people were killed and nine wounded after two gunmen opened fire on passers-by in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. The incident was labeled as a terrorist attack, but no militant group has claimed responsibility. Meanwhile, Israel is strengthening its ground operations with infantry and armored units in southern Lebanon, stepping up pressure on Hezbollah, and is preparing to retaliate against Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tehran would “pay for it” after Iran launched 180 ballistic missiles toward Israel on Tuesday evening. Read more in this analysis translated from French by Worldcrunch: By Firing Missiles At Israel, Iran May Have Just Doomed Its Nuclear Program.
• Russia seizes strategic bastion, six dead in Kherson market attack. Russian troops have reached the strategic town of Vuhledar in the Donbas region, according to a regional Ukrainian official. Footage showed Russian soldiers waving a flag from a multi-storey building. In Kherson, six people were killed in a strike on a local market area on “Defenders Day,” a national public holiday that takes place every year in Ukraine on Oct. 1 to honor the country's armed forces.
• More than 100 people to sue P. Diddy. A Texas-based lawyer said at least 120 people were to sue American rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs for sexual assault, rape and sexual exploitation. The alleged victims include people who were minors at the time of the abuse, one as young as 9 years old. Combs was arrested in New York last week on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering and has denied all allegations.
• Justin Trudeau survives second confidence vote. The Canadian prime minister survived his second parliamentary confidence motion in as many weeks, after a bid by opposition parties failed to topple his government. The motion, led by Conservation leader Pierre Poilievre, accused Trudeau's Liberal government of enabling high cost of living and rising crime rates.
• At least 45 dead and 61 missing as boat sinks off Djibouti. At least 61 people are missing and 45 dead after two migrant boats capsized off the coast of the east African country, according to local officials. The boats left Yemen with 310 people on board on Tuesday. Large-scale search operations are continuing to find the missing persons. Last year, more than 97,200 migrants arrived in Yemen from Africa through this Red Sea route, according to the International Organization for Migration. To know more about the system behind migrant trafficking boats, revisit this piece by Annalisa Camilli for Internazionale.
• Taiwan prepares for Typhoon Krathon. Taiwan shut down ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Krathon, set to hit the southwestern city of Khaosiung on Thursday. Schools and offices have been closed, flights and ferry services canceled and the city mayor has asked the 2.7 million residents to stay indoors. Around 10,000 people have been evacuated from at-risk areas.
• Defector steals bus to return to North Korea. South Korean authorities have arrested a North Korean defector who attempted to cross the border back to North Korea on a stolen bus. The man, who left the country a decade ago and said he was experiencing difficulties in the South, ignored the soldiers and crashed the bus into a barricade on the Unification Bridge. While 34,000 North Koreans have defected to the South in the past 70 years, defectors fleeing the other way are rare.
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At 81 years old, South Korea’s Choi Soon-hwa became the oldest contestant to vie for Miss Universe qualification. Competing against much younger finalists, the former hospital care worker ultimately was not picked to represent her country at the Miss Universe beauty pageant (the honor falling instead on 22-year-old fashion school student Han Ariel). But Choi did go home with the Best Dress award. Her participation was made possible by changes that came into effect this year, with organizers lifting the age limit while also removing the swimsuit competition and eliminating eligibility requirements related to education, height and foreign language abilities to open the contest to more women.
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🇷🇴 Romania’s latest elections have revealed surprising support for the far right from two unlikely demographics: young people and the global diaspora of Romanians living abroad.
— EAST JOURNAL
🍇 In France, amid increasingly frequent and extreme climatic hazards and declining wine consumption, some winemakers are looking into ways to adapt to the new market needs and climatic conditions.
— LES ECHOS
👪 With families shrinking almost everywhere in the world, we tend to have fewer cousins than in past generations. But cousins “are more important than many people assume,” researchers say.
— DIE ZEIT
📣 VERBATIM
“That is a damning non-answer.”
— During Tuesday's vice-presidential debate, Democratic candidate Tim Walz underlined his opponent JD Vance's refusal to give a straight answer. Asked twice if former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and whether they would seek to challenge this year's election results if his ticket lost, the Republican replied twice that he was “focused on the future.” The VP nominees launched attacks on their presidential opponents and discussed abortion, immigration and the U.S. economy. Vance shared his new opinion on abortion and vowed to win back voters' “trust” on the issue. When asked about tensions in the Middle East, Walz repeated Kamala Harris' promise of support to Israel.
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