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A white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in the U.S. state of Virginia turns violent,
leaving 3 people dead and more than 30 others injured.
Uhuru Kenyatta (pictured) is re-elected President of Kenya.
A 7.0 Mw earthquake in China's Sichuan province kills at least 20 people and injures
more than 430 others.
Brazilian footballer Neymar joins French club Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record fee
of 222 million. Uhuru Kenyatta
After Nawaz Sharif is disqualified from public office, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi succeeds
him as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
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August 13, 2017 (Sunday)
Disasters and accidents August 2017

S M T W T F S
Earthquakes in 2017
1 2 3 4 5
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurs off the Indonesian
island of Sumatra. (Reuters via Channel News Asia) (htt 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
p://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/magnitud 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
e-6-5-quake-strikes-off-indonesia-s-sumatra-island-911916
0) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
At least 44 are killed in a landslide on a highway in the northern 27 28 29 30 31
India province of Himachal Pradesh. (The Hindu) (http://www.th
ehindu.com/news/national/other-states/many-killed-in-massive-h More August 2017 events...
imachal-pradesh-landslip/article19485223.ece)
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Armed conflicts and attacks Ongoing events

Syrian Civil War
Seven members of the White Helmets are shot dead by Disasters
unidentified gunmen who stormed their office in rebel-held
Sarmin, in northwestern Syria. (CNN) (http://edition.cnn.c Atlantic hurricane season
om/2017/08/12/middleeast/white-helmets-syria-killings/in California wildfires
dex.html) Oklahoma earthquake swarms
2017 Unite the Right rally
Pacific typhoon season
Fights break out between white supremacists and
counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the
removal of the Robert Edward Lee Sculpture. One person Politics
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is killed and several people are injured after a man drove ChinaIndia border standoff
his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. (CNN) (http://ed European migrant crisis (timeline)
ition.cnn.com/2017/08/12/us/charlottesville-white-national Philippine Drug War
ists-rally/index.html) (BBC) (http://www.bbc.com/news/w
Purges in Turkey
orld-us-canada-40912509) (The Independent) (http://www.
independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/violence-clashes-f Qatar diplomatic crisis
ar-right-rally-charlottesville-virginia-latest-unite-the-right- South China Sea disputes
a7890096.html) Venezuelan protests (timeline)
The Governor of Virginia declares a state of emergency
due to the protests. (CNN) (http://edition.cnn.com/2017/0 More details ongoing conflicts
8/12/us/charlottesville-white-nationalists-rally/index.html)
A Virginia State Police helicopter monitoring protests
crashes, killing two officers onboard. (NBC News) (http:// Sport
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-virginia-officers-kille
d-helicopter-crash-near-charlottesville-are-mourned-n7921 Association football
46) 201718 Premier League
Disasters and accidents 201718 EFL
Championship
Floods in Nepal 201718 UEFA Champions
Flooding in Nepal leaves at least 36 dead and dozens more League
missing. (Hindustan Times) (http://www.hindustantimes.co
201718 UEFA Europa
m/world-news/at-least-23-killed-in-floods-and-landslides-i
n-nepal/story-eC1Lykd6hqYf4venbbjPvN.html) League
201718 Women's Champ.
International relations League
2018 FIFA World Cup qual.
2017 ChinaIndia border standoff
2019 FIFA Women's World
India increases its military alert amid a border standoff
with the People's Liberation Army of China at Doklam. Cup qual.
(Bloomberg News) (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti Tennis
cles/2017-08-12/india-s-military-said-to-increase-alert-alo 2017 ATP World Tour
ng-tense-china-border) 2017 WTA Tour
Cycling
2017 UCI World Tour
August 11, 2017 (Friday)
2017 UCI Europe Tour
Golf
Arts and culture
2017 PGA Championship
Oldest men Motorsport
The world's oldest man, PolishIsraeli Yisrael Kristal, who 2017 Formula One season
was also recognized as the oldest living Holocaust 2017 MotoGP season
survivor, dies at age 113 years, 330 days, in Haifa, Israel. 2017 World Rally
(BBC via MSN.com) (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/w Championship
orld/oldest-man-and-auschwitz-survivor-dies/ar-AApSSW
c?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp) 2017 NASCAR Cup Series
Hugo Award 2017 IndyCar Series
The winners of the annual Hugo Awards are announced at Sports seasons
the 75th World Science Fiction Convention in Helsinki. 2017 AFL season
(The Guardian) (https://www.theguardian.com/books/201 2017 LPGA Tour
7/aug/11/hugo-awards-2017-nk-jemisin-repeats-best-novel 2017 MLB season
-win-the-obelisk)
2017 MLS season
Disasters and accidents 2017 NWSL season
Alexandria train collision 2017 PGA Tour

Two trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt, killing at least 41 2017 WNBA season
people and injuring at least 179. (BBC) (http://www.bbc.c 201718 snooker season
o.uk/news/world-middle-east-40903723)
Migrant crisis More details current sports events
At least 56 African migrants drown in the Red Sea while
traveling from the Horn of Africa to Yemen. Human
traffickers had forced 300 people aboard two boats into the Elections and referendums
sea. (AFP via Yahoo) (https://www.yahoo.com/news/least-
56-dead-smugglers-throw-300-african-migrants-15371256
1.html) Recent
Health and medicine July

16: Republic of the Congo,
Gorakhpur hospital deaths
Over the past two days, 30 children from Baba Raghav National Assembly (1st
Das Medical College have died, allegedly due to lack of round)
oxygen supply to the wards. (The New York Times) (https:// 17: India, President
www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/world/asia/30-children-die- 18: Bermuda, House of
in-indian-hospital-over-2-days-critics-cite-oxygen-shortag Assembly
e.html)
22: East Timor, Parliament
International relations 30: Republic of the Congo,
National Assembly (2nd
CambodiaLaos relations round)
According to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, 30 30: Senegal, National
Laotian soldiers cross the border into Steung Treng
Assembly
Province despite repeated requests for them to leave. Hun
Sen gives Laos a six-day ultimatum to withdraw the 30: Venezuela,
soldiers or face a military response. (Al Jazeera) (http://ww Constitutional Assembly
w.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/cambodia-pm-ultimatum-la August
os-invasion-170811095815240.html) 4: Rwanda, President
PeruVenezuela relations 5: Mauritania,
Shortly after Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Constitutional referendum
called Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro a "dictator",
Peru expels Venezuela's ambassador to Peru to protest 8: Kenya, President,
Venezuela's recent formation of an all-powerful constituent Senate, National Assembly
assembly that has been widely condemned as a power grab
by Maduro. (Reuters) (https://www.reuters.com/article/us- Upcoming
venezuela-politics-peru-idUSKBN1AR2B7)
August
Politics and elections
23: Angola, Parliament
Kenyan general election, 2017
The Kenyan electoral commission announces that
President Uhuru Kenyatta has re-election. Kenyatta leads Recent deaths
ODM candidate Raila Odinga by more than 1.4 million
votes. The opposition National Super Alliance rejects this August 2017
finding as fraudulent. (NPR) (http://www.npr.org/sections/t
hetwo-way/2017/08/11/542798477/it-s-official-kenyan-pre 12: Bryan Murray
sident-wins-re-election-but-will-opposition-concede) 11: Yisrael Kristal
(Reuters) (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-electi
10: Ruth Pfau
on-idUSKBN1AR0SK)
Military of the United States 8: Barbara Cook
8: Glen Campbell
Because of a recent pair of deadly crashes, the U.S. Marine 8: Ken Kaiser
Corps will ground its flight operations for 24 hours for an 8: Rius
operational reset. The suspensions will be spread out over 7: Don Baylor
the next two weeks. (Reuters) (https://www.reuters.com/art
7: Chantek
icle/us-usa-marines-idUSKBN1AR2HZ) (The New York
Times) (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/us/marines- 7: Haruo Nakajima
order-brief-groundings-and-safety-reviews.html) 6: Betty Cuthbert
2017 Unite the Right rally 6: Darren Daulton
A white supremacist rally called "Unite The Right" takes 6: Dick Locher
place in Charlottesville, Virginia. (CNN) (http://us.cnn.co 6: Martin Roth
m/2017/08/12/us/charlottesville-white-nationalists-rally/in
5: Dionigi Tettamanzi
dex.html)
5: Mark White
5: Ernst Zndel
August 10, 2017 (Thursday) 3: Robert Hardy
2: Judith Jones
Business and economy 2: Ara Parseghian
1: Jeffrey Brotman
Economy of the United States
New York State-based GateHouse Media announces an July 2017
agreement to buy 11 U.S. newspapers from Georgia-based
Morris Communications. Included in the deal is the Log 31: Jeanne Moreau
Cabin Democrat, founded in 1879, and three Alaskan 31: Les Murray
newspapers: the Juneau Empire, the Peninsula Clarion and
Homer News. The deal is expected to close on October 2. 30: Anton Vratua
(AdWeek) (http://www.adweek.com/digital/gatehouse-med 29: Lee May
ia-morris-communications/) 28: Charlie Gard
DineEquity announces it will close 160 Applebee's and 27: Sam Shepard
IHOP restaurants. (USA Today) (https://www.usatoday.co 27: Marty Sklar
m/story/money/2017/08/10/many-160-applebees-and-ihop- 26: June Foray
locations-close/556343001/)
25: Gretel Bergmann
Disasters and accidents 25: Barbara Sinatra
25: John Wraw
Migrant crisis 25: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
The United Nations International Organization for
23: John Kundla
Migration reports, over the last two days in two incidents,
smugglers have thrown 280 migrants from Ethiopia and 23: Mervyn Rose
other Horn of Africa countries into the sea off the coast of 23: Snooty
Yemen. More than 50 refugees have drowned with over 30 21: John Heard
people still missing. (AP via CBS News) (http://www.cbsn 21: Geoff Mack
ews.com/news/smugglers-throw-280-migrants-into-the-sea 20: Chester Bennington
-off-yemen-u-n-says/) (Al Jazeera) (http://www.aljazeera.c
20: John McCluskey
om/news/2017/08/200-refugees-thrown-yemen-sea-50-mis
sing-170810104006798.html) 19: Max Gallo
Road incidents in China 19: Blaoui Houari
At least 36 people die in a bus crash in China's Shaanxi 19: Charles Weston Houck
province. The bus was travelling between Chengdu and 18: Red West
Luoyang. (The Telegraph) (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne 17: Raymond Sackler
ws/2017/08/11/least-36-people-dead-bus-crash-china/)
16: George A. Romero
International relations 15: Martin Landau
15: Maryam Mirzakhani
CanadaCuba relations, CubaUnited States relations 15: Babe Parilli
The Canadian government says at least one of their 15: Bob Wolff
diplomats in Havana has been treated for hearing loss, 14: William "Hootie" Johnson
following up on yesterday's report that American 13: Liu Xiaobo
diplomats had similar injuries. U.S. officials say the
12: Chuck Blazer
problems started in the fall of 2016. The Cuban Foreign
Ministry says it was informed of the incidents in February 12: Ray Phiri
and has been investigating since that time. (Time) (http://ti
me.com/4896456/canada-diplomat-cuba-hearing-loss-soni
c-device/) Trials
Politics and election Recently concluded

Mayor of Tehran
Reformist candidate Mohammad-Ali Najafi is Cambodia: Sam Rainsy
unanimously elected Mayor of Tehran by the city council, China: Wan Qingliang, Wu
ending the 12-year tenure of Principlist Mohammad- Changshun, Zhao Liping
Bagher Ghalibaf. (Financial Times) (https://www.ft.com/c Netherlands: Geert Wilders
ontent/f3982b84-7dd0-11e7-ab01-a13271d1ee9c) Philippines: Nur Misuari, Joel
(ForexRepository) (http://www.forexrepository.com/news/t
Villanueva
ehran-elects-first-reformist-mayor-in-14-years.htm)
Romania: Gheorghe tefan,
Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Coco,
August 9, 2017 (Wednesday) Dumitru Nicolae
Spain: Spanish Royal House
Armed conflicts and attacks United Kingdom: Chris Denning,
Ched Evans, Thomas Mair, Fred
Levallois-Perret attack Talbot, Rolf Harris
In a suspected terror attack, six French soldiers are injured, United States: Pedro Hernandez,
three seriously, when a man drives a car into them at a
barracks in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret. Paul Anthony Ciancia, Graham
(Independent) (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/ Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz,
europe/paris-attack-french-soldiers-hit-by-vehicle-several-i Bill Cosby
njured-levallois-perret-latest-update-a7883631.html)
Ongoing
Disasters and accidents
China: Bai Enpei, Pan Yiyang,
2017 Atlantic hurricane season
Hurricane Franklin, the Atlantic Ocean's first hurricane of Yang Weize
the season, is set to hit Mexico's Gulf state of Veracruz Germany: Beate Zschpe
tonight or tomorrow morning. The category 1 storm is Indonesia: Basuki Tjahaja
expected to lose strength as it moves inland through the Purnama, Mary Jane Veloso
oil-producing state. (Reuters) (http://in.reuters.com/article/ Kazakhstan: Mukhtar Ablyazov
us-storm-franklin-nhc-mexico-idINKBN1AP1EB)
Pakistan: Waseem Azeem, Mufti
(National Hurricane Center) (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refr
esh/graphics_at2+shtml/235211.shtml?gm_track#contents) Abdul Qawi
Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.,
International relations Leila de Lima, Jovito Palparan
Romania: Dan ova, Elena Udrea,
CubaUnited States relations
Two Cuban diplomats are expelled from the Embassy of Radu Mazre, Gheorghe Nichita
Cuba in Washington, D.C., after an incident in Havana Russia: Alexei Navalny
forced U.S. officials to return home. (Fox News) (http://w South Korea: Park Geun-hye and
ww.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/09/cuban-diplomats-kic Choi Soon-sil
ked-out-us-after-americans-experience-physical-symptoms Spain: Grtel case, Brcenas affair,

-in-cuba.html) Operacin Lezo, ngel Mara
RussiaUnited States relations Villar, Jordi Pujol, Palau de la
Unarmed Russian Air Force reconnaissance jets, under the
Msica Catalana, Case ERE
authority provided by international Open Skies Treaty, fly
over several Washington, D.C., area government buildings United Kingdom: Barry Bennell
and landmarks as well as the President's residence in International
Bedminster, New Jersey. (ABC News) (http://abcnews.go. ICC: Laurent Gbagbo
com/International/unarmed-russian-air-force-jet-flies-penta ICTY: Ratko Mladi
gon-capitol/story?id=49123605) (CBS News) (http://www.
cbsnews.com/news/russia-flies-military-observation-plane- Upcoming
over-capitol-pentagon-cia/)
United StatesVenezuela relations
The U.S. imposes new sanctions on eight Venezuelan Australia: George Pell
officials, including Secretary of the 2017 Constituent Egypt: Mohamed Morsi
Assembly Adn Chvez - the late President Hugo Chvez's Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
brother, to "deter further democratic backsliding" in the Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
South American country. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.co Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
m/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN1AP1PO?il=0) Philippines: Benigno Aquino III,
(CBS News) (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-u-s-pen
alties-against-8-more-people-over-venezuela-crisis/) Alan Purisima, Getulio Napeas
Russia: Alexey Ulyukaev
Law and crime United States: Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, Bill Cosby
Crime in North Korea
North Korea releases imprisoned Canadian pastor Hyeon
Soo Lim on "sick bail." (CBC News) (http://www.cbc.ca/n
Ongoing conflicts
ews/world/canadian-pastor-released-1.4239910)
Sexual orientation and gender identity in the United States
military Africa
Five transgender United States military personnel sue
President Donald Trump and top Pentagon officials over Algeria and Tunisia
the President's policy change announced late last month Maghreb insurgency
banning transgender people from serving in the military. ISIL insurgency in Tunisia
The suit asks the court to prevent the ban from going into
effect. (The New York Times) (https://www.nytimes.com/20 Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and
17/08/09/us/politics/5-transgender-service-members-sue-tr
Nigeria
ump-over-military-ban.html) (AP via NBC News) (http://
www.nbcnews.com/news/military/lawsuit-opposes-trump- Boko Haram insurgency
s-ban-transgender-military-service-n791241)
Central African Republic
Politics and elections Civil war
GT road rally Democratic Republic of the Congo

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif goes Kivu conflict
home after his disqualification by the Supreme Court in the ADF insurgency
Panama Papers case. (ABC News) (http://abcnews.go.com/
Ituri conflict
International/wireStory/deposed-pakistani-pm-lead-rally-s
ecurity-threats-49107523) Lord's Resistance Army
Regions of the Philippines insurgency
President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte abolishes the
Negros Island Region (first created in 2015 by his Libya
predecessor) through Executive Order no. 38, citing lack Civil war
of funds to fully establish the region. Negros Occidental
reverts back to the Western Visayas region, Negros Mali

Oriental back to the Central Visayas region. (Rappler) (htt Northern Mali conflict
p://www.rappler.com/nation/178175-duterte-dissolves-negr
os-island-region) (Official Gazette of the Republic of the Somalia
Philippines) (http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2017/08/0 Civil war
7/executive-order-no-38-s-2017/)
South Sudan
Ethnic violence (South
August 8, 2017 (Tuesday)
Sudanese Civil War)
Armed conflicts and attacks Sudan

War in Darfur
Battle of Marawi
South Kordofan conflict
The Pentagon is considering conducting airstrikes in
Marawi, which if approved would later put U.S. troops on Sudanese nomadic conflicts
the ground to battle the ISIS-affiliated Maute group as well
as related Islamist terror groups. A spokesperson later Americas
denied the claims as well as clarified that the Philippines
has yet to make a request. (NBC News) (http://www.nbcne Mexico
ws.com/news/world/u-s-may-begin-airstrikes-against-isis- Mexican War on Drugs
philippines-n790271)
Peru
Disasters and accidents
Internal conflict in Peru
2017 Jiuzhaigou earthquake
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Sichuan in southwest Asia
China, killing at least thirteen people and injuring more
than 175. (BBC) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-4 Afghanistan
0869028), (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-chi Afghanistan War
na-quake-idUSKBN1AP005)
China
International relations Xinjiang conflict
North KoreaUnited States relations
India
U.S. President Donald Trump promises "fire and fury like
the world has never seen" if North Korea threatens the NaxaliteMaoist insurgency
United States. (NBC News) (http://www.nbcnews.com/poli Insurgency in Northeast
tics/white-house/trump-vows-north-korea-could-be-met-fir India
e-fury-n790896)
Hours after Trump made this remark, North Korea says it India and Pakistan
is "carefully examining" a missile strike against United Kashmir conflict
States territory of Guam. (CNBC) (https://www.cnbc.com/
2017/08/08/north-korea-seriously-considering-strike-on-gu Indonesia, Malaysia and the
am-reports-citing-state-media.html) Philippines
Moro conflict
Law and crime
Cross border attacks
Burial of Ferdinand Marcos in Sabah
The Supreme Court of the Philippines has junked all
petitions against the burial of former President of the Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Philippines Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Papua conflict
Bayani, re-affirming its earlier ruling on 8 November
2016. (CNN Philippines) (https://cnnphilippines.com/new Myanmar
s/2017/08/08/SC-affirms-ruling-marcos-burial.html)
Politics and elections Internal conflict in

Myanmar
Kenyan general election, 2017
Voters in Kenya go to the polls to elect the President, as Pakistan
well as members of the National Assembly and Senate. War in North-West Pakistan
(BBC) (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40855040)
Corruption in South Africa Balochistan conflict
President Jacob Zuma survives his eighth no-confidence
Philippines
motion in parliament via a 198177 secret ballot vote with
nine abstentions. The rand fell by 1 percent on the CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion
announcement of the outcome. (Reuters) (http://www.reute
rs.com/article/us-safrica-politics-idUSKBN1AN2JY?il=0) Thailand
South Thailand insurgency
Sports
Europe
PGA Championship
In golf, the PGA of America and the PGA Tour jointly
Armenia and Azerbaijan
announce that the PGA Championship, currently the last of
the four men's major championships to be held each year, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
will move from its current August date to May effective in
2019. In the same year, The Players Championship will Georgia
move from May to March. (Reuters via The New York AbkhazGeorgian conflict
Times) (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/sports/golf/p GeorgianOssetian conflict
ga-championship-may.html)
Russia
ChechenRussian conflict
August 7, 2017 (Monday) North Caucasus insurgency
Arts and culture Ukraine

War in Donbass
Godzilla in popular culture Russian military
Haruo Nakajima, who portrayed the monster Godzilla intervention in
from 1954 to 1972, dies at the age of 88. (Daily Mail) (htt Ukraine
p://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4770094/Haruo
-Nakajima-famously-wore-Godzilla-suit-dead-88.html)
Middle East
Business and economy
Egypt
Airline bankruptcies in the United States Sinai insurgency
Air carrier PenAir declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the
United States, and ends service to Denver, Colorado, and Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan,
Portland, Oregon. (The Wall Street Journal) (https://www. Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria
wsj.com/articles/penair-plans-to-shed-denver-portland-hub ArabIsraeli conflict
s-in-chapter-11-1502124686)
Iran
Law and crime
IranPJAK conflict
Media of the Philippines
Two more Filipino journalists are murdered in a span of Iraq
two days adding to toll of more than a hundred journalists American-led intervention
killed since 2000. (The Strait Times) (http://www.straitstim in Iraq
es.com/asia/se-asia/two-journalists-in-two-days-murdered- Iranian intervention in Iraq
in-philippines), (The Committee to Protect Journalists) (htt
Iraq and Syria (map)
ps://cpj.org/2017/08/reporter-shot-and-killed-in-the-philipp Military intervention

ines.php) against ISIL
Politics and elections Israel and Lebanon

IsraeliLebanese conflict
Mauritanian constitutional referendum, 2017
Results from Saturday's constitutional referendum show
Israel and Palestine
Mauritanians have voted to abolish the Senate. Turnout
was 53.73%, with 85% of voters supporting the change, GazaIsrael conflict
according to officials. (BBC) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ IsraeliPalestinian conflict
world-africa-40847092)
Corruption in South Africa Syria
The Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa, American-led intervention
Baleka Mbete, announces that a vote of no confidence in in Syria
President Jacob Zuma will be held by secret ballot. The Russian military
vote, to be held on 8 August 2017, will be the eighth vote intervention in the Syrian
of no confidence against the president and the first by
secret ballot. (CNN) (http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/07/af Civil War
rica/jacob-zuma-no-confidence-vote-south-africa/index.ht Turkish military
ml) intervention in Syria
Syrian Civil War spillover
in Lebanon
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Yemeni Civil War
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