It’s been a week of conflict, chaos and more. Israel has eliminated one of its biggest enemies, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a targeted airstrike on Friday (September 27). The killing is seen as a major escalation between the two sides.
And the fear of a full-blown war in West Asia is only growing. In the US, Hurricane Helene , one of the largest storms in the Gulf of Mexico in the last century, lashed the southeastern part of the country. It came with a catastrophic storm surge and caused widescale destruction and deaths of at least 40.
Meanwhile, a political storm hit New York. Mayor Eric Adams has been charged with bribery and fraud – he accepted illegal gifts over $100,000. Two countries in Asia got new leaders this week.
Sri Lanka held presidential elections last Sunday and voted for Left-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake . He dissolved the parliament and now snap elections will be held on November 14. In Japan, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has picked former Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba as their leader.
He will be the country’s new prime minister. In Switzerland, there have been arrests over the death of a woman in a suicide pod. And in Australia, the controversy over Qantas’ ‘ghost flights” continues to unravel.
All this and more in our weekly roundup of explainers from around the world. 1. Israel and Hezbollah have been fighting since 8 October 2023, a day after Hamas’ unprecedented attack on the Jewish nation.
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