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Canadian charter flights leaving Lebanon have hundreds of empty seats, Global Affairs says
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) says two flights chartered by the federal government to bring Canadians out of Lebanon left Beirut for Istanbul Thursday with just 275 passengers and 379 empty seats. In Paris on Thursday for the Francophonie Summit, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly told reporters there were 654 seats on those two flights. “Please take the seats,” Joly said. “At this point, not all seats are taken by Canadians.” Shortly after Joly’s media availability, her department issued a press release saying those two flights collectively carried 275 passengers, not all ofRead more
Israelis living near Lebanon border fear Hezbollah may be about to join the war
Along Israel’s northern border, increasing Hezbollah attacks raise fears of a second front in the war On their fruit farm in Israel’s north, less than two kilometres from the border with Lebanon, brothers Nadav and Adam Ishach keep a grim souvenir of the last war that raged here. Back in 2006, a Katyusha rocket was fired onto their property in Betzet by Hezbollah, the powerful Iran-backed militia group that operates out of Lebanon and is again threatening war with Israel. The missile destroyed buildings and started a fire, but fortunately didn’tRead more