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Hezbollah has vowed to continue its resistance to Israel after the ceasefire came into effect.Brokered by the US and France, the halt to fighting in Lebanon will see both Israeli and Hezbollah forces retreat. Its announcement was met by cheers on the streets of Lebanon, where people quickly began taking to the roads, streaming back to the war-ravaged south of the country.Cars and vans piled high with belongings snaked through parts of Lebanon, heading south.New data reveals impact of war on Lebanese civilians Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 3:20 ...

Three American citizens who had been detained in China for years have been released, Sky's US partner network NBC News reports.Kai Li, Mark Swidan and John Leung will return to the US, reportedly after an agreement was reached as part of sensitive negotiations. It comes after Politico cited an unnamed US official claiming years-long attempts to free the trio have succeeded, in exchange for unidentified Chinese citizens in US custody."We are pleased to announce the release of Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung from detention in the People's Republic of China," a State Department spokesperson said."Soon they will return and be reunited with their families for the first time in many years. "Thanks to this administration's efforts and diplomacy with the PRC [People's Republic of China], all o...

NASA scientists have rediscovered a long-lost "city" buried under 100ft of ice, 58 years after it was abandoned as a US base during the Cold War.Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland, was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union. As ice began to crush the site, the US abandoned the project and left the camp - which could have expanded to 33 bases - to be slowly lost to the elements.That's until NASA scientist Chad Greene, helped by agency expert Alex Gardner, flew over Greenland in April this year to map ice sheets and estimate future sea level rise."We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century," said Mr Gardner, describing how their radar-detecting structures appeared to align with tunnels built in the base. "We...