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Cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has been ongoing for the past year. Photo: ETIENNE TORBEY / AFP Israel says its air force has attacked Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters in Beirut as well as an underground workshop for the production of weapons. In a statement, the Israeli military said its fighter jets killed three Hezbollah commanders, including Alhaj Abbas Salameh, a senior figure in the group's southern command, Radja Abbas Awache, a communications expert, and Ahmad Ali Hussein, who it said was responsible for strategic weapons development. It was not clear if the three were killed in the attack on the headquarters on Sunday (local time) or in separate actions. Hezbollah made no immediate comment. Israel's military said on Saturday it had destroyed tunnel shaft...

It's one of the most popular shows of the 21st century and now, another iteration is taking place downunder. The Office is set in Australia with the first female boss - Hannah Howard, at a Sydney-based packaging company, played by actor and comedian Felicity Ward.  The British version which first aired in 2001 was created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Four years later, Steve Carrell took on the US version which ran for nine seasons.  The Australian version has a cast of both Aussies and Kiwis, including Josh Thomson, Edith Poor and Jonny Brugh, and it's also co-directed by our own Jackie Van Beek.  Edith Poor plays the straight-laced, 'front desk executive' and productivity manager Lizzie Moyle. An original fan of the first series, she describes it as "an honour" to be part of thi...

By Ananda Teresia and Stefanno Sulaiman for Reuters Prabowo Subianto greets a crowd during his 2019 run for the Indonesian presidency. Photo: AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana Indonesia's Prabowo Subianto on Sunday took over as president of the world's third-largest democracy after sweeping the country's election with policies like free meals for school children and with the outgoing leader's son as his running mate. The 73-year-old former special forces commander won the 14 February contest with nearly 60 percent of the vote and has spent the past nine months building a formidable parliamentary coalition. Prabowo, wearing a traditional black hat and navy suit with a woven maroon and golden sarong, officially become Indonesia's eighth president on Sunday morning after he was sworn in during a ...

Dracula author Bram Stoker, pictured in 1906. Photo: Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons An amateur Irish historian says he is still coming to terms with finding a long-lost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker. Gibbet Hill was published in the Dublin edition of the Daily Express in 1890 but it was forgotten over time. The story will be presented at this month's Bram Stoker Festival and published as a limited-release book. A long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, has been re-discovered after remaining undocumented for more than 130 years. Amateur historian Brian Cleary was doing research on Stoker in the Irish National Library last year when he came across the 1890 Christmas edition of the Dublin Daily Express, where he found a Gothic horror tale that had been lost...