JERUSALEM -- Israel on Tuesday ordered residents of the city of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate "urgently" ahead of a new planned onslaught in the area.

Avichay Adraee, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), wrote in Arabic on the social media platform X that the army has an imminent plan to "act with great force" against militant infrastructures in the area. (Israel-Order-Gaza Evacuation)

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TUNIS -- Tunisian coast guards have retrieved the bodies of 19 migrants over the past 24 hours after their boats sank off Tunisian coasts, the Tunisian National Guard said Tuesday.

The bodies were retrieved off the coast of the southeastern province of Sfax and central Tunisia, the Tunisian National Guard said in a statement on its Facebook page. (Tunisia-Migrants-Bodies)

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CAIRO -- The Suez Canal rescue teams prevented a cargo ship from sinking before passing through the waterway, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said on Tuesday.

Twelve crew members on the rescued Tanzanian-flagged LABATROS cargo ship were safe, the SCA said in a statement. (Egypt-Suez Canal-Cargo Rescue)

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BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi investigation committee said Tuesday that the huge explosion, which occurred on Saturday at Kalsu military base in Iraq's central province of Babil, resulted from the explosion in ammunition and missile depots, not as a result of a missile strike.

The technical committee ended its investigation and concluded that "the intensity of the explosion and the size of the material scattered from the projectiles, missiles, and other explosive materials could not in any way be caused by a missile," according to a statement from the Security Media Cell, a media outlet affiliated with the Iraqi Joint Operations Command. (Iraq-Military Base Explosion-Investigation) Enditem

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