By Maya Gebeily and Ahmad Al Kerdi
TYRE, Lebanon, Sept 4 (Reuters) - The schoolyard in southern Lebanon echoed with the squeals of playing children despite the beating sun and distant booms of Israeli airstrikes. But for most of the youththere, the public school isn't where they learn. It's where they live.
By Rami Ayyub
JERUSALEM, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Two Israeli ministers floated proposals this week for the mass removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, resurfacing an idea voiced repeatedly by right-wing politicians over the past three years as they seek to rally supporters ahead of an election.
The calls by two of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political allies have revived Palestinian fears that Israel ultimately aims to forcibly expel them from Gaza despite U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to end the conflict there.
By Nicolás Misculin and Sarah Young
BUENOS AIRES/LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Argentine President Javier Milei said he would sanction oil companies drilling in the Falkland Islands, stepping up the country's claims to sovereignty over the British overseas territory.
Milei's comments in a televised national address on Thursday came days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was reviewing the United States' neutral position on the remote archipelago in the South Atlantic.
The Red Cross said on Friday it had facilitated the transfer to Lebanon of four more people detained by Israel, a day after a first person was freed.
Israel is believed to have seized dozens of people from Lebanon during its recent wars with Iran-backed Hezbollah.
"The International Committee of the Red Cross, at the request of the relevant parties, facilitated the transfer to Lebanon of five individuals released from Israeli detention," the ICRC said in a statement.
By Sam Tabahriti
LONDON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Argentine President Javier Milei has stepped up his country's claim to the Falkland Islands by announcing plans to sanction companies involved in oil development around the British overseas territory.
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WHAT ARE THE FALKLAND ISLANDS?
VLADIVOSTOK, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Igor Sechin, chief of Russia’s top oil producer Rosneft, said on Thursday that China, not OPEC, has stabilized global oil markets by reducing crude imports by 5.5 million barrels per day this year.
Sechin, the most influential Russian energy manager and a long-standing ally of President Vladimir Putin, was speaking at a Russian - Chinese business forum in the far eastern city of Vladivostok.
By Heejin Kim and Kyu-seok Shim
SEOUL, Sept 4 (Reuters) - South Korea is reviewing options, including military measures, to support freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, the presidential office said on Friday, while denying media reports that the government had already decided on a deployment.
Several South Korean media outlets, including JTBC and MBC, reported late on Thursday that Seoul was preparing to deploy military assets before the end of the year and could seek parliamentary approval this month.
A major offensive by Yemen's Houthis to seize control of the gateway to the Red Sea has left more than 120 people dead, sources told AFP Friday, the country's deadliest clashes in years.
Fighting erupted on Thursday, after the Iran-backed Houthis launched a ground assault along with rocket and drone attacks near coastal areas, vying for control of the narrow Bab al-Mandab strait at the Red Sea's southern entrance.
DUBAI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Iranian mourners carried caskets at a funeral on Thursday for victims of a U.S. airstrike said to have struck a wedding party, and Tehran launched missiles and drones overnight at a U.S. base in Kuwait, after the war's biggest escalation in more than a month.
Mourners assembled in the late afternoon outside the village of Kuhestak in Sirik County, along a stretch of the Strait of Hormuz coast that was hit by heavy U.S. airstrikes late on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - U.S.Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said the United States is investigating anairstrike that Iran says struck a wedding party in Iran.
"We're investigating it because obviously we care. We want to know," Vance told reporters during a White House press briefing.
"If we do make mistakes, again, this is a big difference between us and Iran, when our military makes mistakes, they learn from them to try to get better from them," Vance added.
