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Israel claims it has captured a senior Hezbollah operative after conducting a seaborne raid in northern Lebanon early on Friday.The "special operation" in the coastal town of Batroun marks the first time Israel has acknowledged deploying troops that far north during its current campaign against Hezbollah. "The operative has been transferred to Israeli territory and is currently being investigated," an Israeli military official said.CCTV footage obtained by Sky News from the street where the operation allegedly took place appears to show a large group of soldiers leading a person away with their hands held behind their back and their face covered by their shirt.Recounting the event, residents of the apartment block where the person was seized said the armed group introduced themselves as st...

For days, the people of Paiporta have been dealing with the devastation of their town. But what hurts them now is the sense that they have been forgotten by their country.As we walk through this town, what we see is relentless hard work - clearing mud, pumping out water, recovering cars. But none of it is being done by people in uniform. Paiporta is being saved by its own residents, by friends, and by volunteers."The town feels like chaos," says Cristina Hernandez, who moved here a year ago from Madrid"Nobody has organised anything so we are doing our best. We feel we are abandoned by the government and there are also a lot of thieves in the night, so we are scared. "It is a nightmare not only because of the floods but also because of the anarchy that we are living through now. After the c...

Moscow has warned the US it should take Russia's nuclear warnings seriously to avoid World War Three. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's security council and who served as the country's president from 2008 to 2012, warned the US on Saturday it was "wrong" to believe "that the Russians will never cross a certain line". He told Russian-state broadcaster RT that Moscow believed the current US and European political establishments lacked the "foresight and subtlety of mind" displayed by the late Henry Kissinger."If we are talking about the existence of our state, as the president of our country has repeatedly said, your humbleservant has said, others have said, of course, we simply will not have any choice," Mr Medvedev said.Russia has been signalling for weeks to the West that Mosco...