Beirut. Non conoscono tregua le violenze in Libano. Dopo tre giorni di combattimenti, ora Hezbollah controlla la parte occidentale di Beirut, quella a maggioranza sunnita, roccaforte delle forze filogovernative guidate da Saad Hariri. Questa mattina almeno sei persone sono rimaste uccise durante un funerale sunnita, riferisce una fonte medica. (more..)

Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop in Iraq who was kidnapped last month, has been found dead near the northern city of Mosul. An Iraqi police officer and morgue official confirmed reports that the archbishop’s body had been found buried near Mosul, where he had been abducted. (more..)