PPN World News Headlines - 8 Oct 2024 - video Dailymotion

• Senior Hezbollah commander killed • Strike in Gaza kills 21

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00:00The Israeli military said it has killed Suhail Hosseini, the commander of Hezbollah's headquarters,

00:19in an attack on Beirut on Monday night.

00:22It said Hosseini was responsible for transferring weapons from Iran and distributing the arms

00:26to Hezbollah's various units.

00:29Further strikes were also reported in Beirut and across eastern and southern Lebanon on

00:34Tuesday morning.

00:36Israel also said it would soon launch operations on Lebanon's southern coast, telling residents

00:41to stay off the beaches and the sea along the Mediterranean.

00:53At least 21 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Baraj refugee camp in central

00:59Gaza overnight.

01:00After a year of war, Gaza's Hamas-run health authority says the death toll from the war

01:06with Israel is nearing 42,000 people, numbers the U.N. says are reliable.

01:13Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists his country will achieve what he calls

01:18total victory over Hamas, which launched the October 7 terror attacks a year ago.

01:29A Russian court sentenced a 72-year-old American to nearly seven years in prison on Monday

01:37for fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine.

01:39Prosecutors say Stephen Hubbard, originally from Michigan, signed a contract with Ukraine's

01:44military after Russia's invasion in 2022 and was paid $1,000 a month to fight alongside

01:51Ukrainian forces.

01:52He was captured by Russian troops in April of 2022 in the cities of Izum, which was under

01:59Russian occupation at the time.

02:01According to Russian prosecutors, Hubbard underwent military training, received a uniform

02:05and weapons, and actively took part in the fighting.

02:17North Korean leader Kim Jong-un stated during a speech at the Kim Jong-un National Defense

02:21University on Monday that Pyongyang frankly has no intention of attacking South Korea,

02:26contradicting past rhetoric about liberating the South.

02:29However, he warned that any imbalance in strategic power on the Korean Peninsula could lead to

02:34war, reiterating Pyongyang's commitment to strengthening its nuclear capabilities in response

02:40to the ROK-U.S. military alliance, which he described as a nuclear alliance.

02:55In the capital of Mexico's violence-plagued state of Guerrero, police hold the scene where

03:00its new mayor was found dead.

03:02Alejandro Arcos had only been mayor of Chilpancingo for six days before being killed on Sunday,

03:08according to Guerrero's governor.

03:11Photos had circulated on WhatsApp depicting a severed head on top of a pickup truck, appearing

03:16to be that of Arcos.

03:18Reuters could not independently verify the photo's authenticity.

03:22Guerrero State's attorney general's office said it was investigating his murder.

03:26Three days before the mayor was murdered, the new city government's secretary was also

03:31killed.

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