For today, a link to a report from the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on its initials below. (IRAN, WEST BANK, GAZA, SYRIA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down.  LEBANON 3-9-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Lebanon seeks to firm up state authority by naming new army chief, top security officials.  From AP. BEIRUT — Lebanon appointed a new army chief and heads of three security agencies today as the government seeks to firm up state authority, especially in the country’s south, following the militant Hezbollah group’s devastating war with Israel. READ MORE . . .

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