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Sunday, 24 May 2015 10:22 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 24 May 2015 10:22 PM ]

Lebanese supporters of Shiite Hezbollah movement gather in the southern town of Nabatiyeh on May 24, 2015, to watch a televised address by Hassan Nasrallah, the movement

1. In Spain, exit polls suggest new parties have won seats in almost all the regional governments as voters turn away from traditional political camps.

2. Tensions boiling in the U-S city of Cleveland over the acquittal of a white officer in the fatal shooting of two African-Americans. Authorities have warned against fresh protests after dozens of arrests on Saturday.

3. The Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement has called for a united front against ISIL.

4. The Syrian army and Lebanon’s Hezbollah fighters have discovered a militant hideout used for making explosives and mortars in the border region of Qalamoun.

5. Saudi Arabia’s aggression against Yemen continues for the 60th day. Saudi fighter jets have pounded Aden international airport and two military bases south of the capital Sana’a.

6. The Yemeni army says it has shot down a Saudi warplane northeast of the northern city of Sa'ada.

7. People have rallied in the Japanese capital Tokyo to protest the US plan to construct another airbase in the southern island of Okinawa.

8. Nobel prize-winner John Nash has died at the age of 86. The Princeton University mathematician and his wife were killed in a car crash in the U-S state of New Jersey.

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