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Iran using children in security roles in war, reports and witnesses say
An 11-year-old is reported to have been killed in an air strike while manning a checkpoint in Tehran. -
Israel says it will keep control over part of southern Lebanon after war with Hezbollah ends
Defence Minister Israel Katz also says houses in Lebanese villages near the Israeli border will be demolished. -
US journalist Shelly Kittleson kidnapped in Baghdad
The US state department says a suspect in her abduction has ties to an Iran-backed militia group, Kataib Hezbollah. -
Peacekeepers killed by roadside explosion in Lebanon, initial report finds
The deaths of the two Indonesian nationals came less than a day after another UN peacekeeper - also Indonesian - was killed in Lebanon. -
India begins counting more than a billion people in massive census
The two-phase exercise - the worldâs most ambitious - will see three million officials count every Indian.