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The Israel Defense Forces said it carried out “dozens” of strikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon on Sunday as it shuttled more reservists and tanks to the two countries’ shared border, as a ground invasion appeared imminent.
以色列国防军表示，周日在黎巴嫩针对真主党进行了“数十次”打击，同时向两国边境增派了更多预备役部队和坦克，地面入侵似乎迫在眉睫。

US officials speaking to ABC News said that small-scale Israeli “border movements” into Lebanon may have already begun.
美国官员对 ABC 新闻表示，以色列可能已经开始了小规模的“边境行动”进入黎巴嫩。

The escalation comes a day after the Iran-backed group and dominant political party in Lebanon confirmed that a Friday airstrike in Beirut killed its leader Hassan Nasrallah. Several other senior Hezbollah figures were also killed in the strike, the IDF said. After the attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly left the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he had vowed to continue Israel’s fight against Hezbollah.
升级发生在黎巴嫩的伊朗支持的团体和主要政党确认周五在贝鲁特的空袭杀死了其领导人哈桑·纳斯鲁拉的次日。以色列国防军称，空袭中还有几名其他高级真主党成员也被打死。袭击发生后，以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡突然离开在纽约的联合国大会，他在会上誓言将继续以色列对真主党的斗争。

Nasrallah’s killing prompted Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to vow revenge. He has also moved to a secure location inside Iran amid heightened security precautions, according to Reuters.
纳斯拉勒的被杀促使伊朗最高领袖哈梅内伊誓言复仇。据路透社报道，他还已转移到伊朗境内的一个安全地点，并加强了安全措施。

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party appears to have won its first national election with 29.1% of the vote, the country’s state broadcaster reported Sunday. The apparent victory marks another major electoral victory for Europe’s far-right movement.

The Freedom Party’s win would still require it to form a coalition government with other parties, a scenario that is more likely to come to pass given that the country’s center-right party, which was in second place, exit polls showed, has said it would be willing to work with the far right.

After key Chinese stock indexes saw some of their biggest weekly gains in years last week, investors are increasingly confident that the country’s flagging economy may be heading toward a lasting recovery.

“FOMO is running high” one analyst told Bloomberg. “Based on historical valuation, we think Chinese stocks have another 20% runway to go.” Meanwhile, a Goldman Sachs analyst predicted the rally may continue through the end of the year. When asked what investors might buy, a hedge fund manager told CNBC: “Everything. Every. Thing.”

Markets have been buoyed by Beijing’s release of a multi-point stimulus package, which included billions in spending and easing measures, although much of the package’s scope remains unclear. From what has been announced so far, the package will likely fall short of the country’s 2008 stimulus, which saw 4 trillion yuan injected into the economy, and some suspect the new measures may be insufficient to fuel a broader Chinese economic rebound.

Ahead of Japan’s new prime minister being sworn in on Oct. 1, analysts predicted a “very ugly” Monday for the country’s stock market. A former defense minister, Shigeru Ishiba is known for his criticism of the country’s central bank’s long-standing policy of aggressive easing and stimulus, and for his support for higher taxes on companies and investment income.

After he won Japan’s ruling party’s leadership contest last week, Ishiba said that “monetary policy must remain accommodative” to economic conditions, and that he would leave interest rate decisions largely up to the Bank of Japan. However, analysts predicted that “near-term price volatility is likely to persist,” Financial Times noted, until there is more clarity on Ishiba’s fiscal stance.

Italy and Switzerland have redrawn their shared border in the Alps, a decision compelled by climate change. Historically, the two European countries have used glaciers in the shadow of the Matterhorn mountain peak as their frontiers, but the glaciers are rapidly shrinking due to climate change.

The changes, proposed in 2023, were ratified by Switzerland Friday, Bloomberg reported, with Italy expected to follow suit.

The decision affects the border around the Zermatt ski resort, a popular tourist destination that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

Europe has seen rapid warming and record temperatures each year this decade, and Alpine glaciers have lost some 10% of their volume in the last two years, leading some experts to predict more changes to borders in the region may be on the horizon.

A rising number of state-level legal challenges to election rules has legal experts increasingly concerned that the results of the Nov. 5 presidential election will be disputed, multiple outlets have reported.

More than 90 lawsuits that challenge voting rules and other practices have been filed this year by Republican-aligned groups, The New York Times reported, citing data from the Democratically aligned Democracy Docket group that tracks election cases. Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has said it alone is involved in 120 legal challenges across 26 states, Reuters noted. Democrats have also mounted their own legal challenges in Georgia and elsewhere.

Legal experts have said that, while many of the lawsuits causing concern are unlikely to have much impact on the election itself, they indicate a broader effort to lay the groundwork for challenges to the results of the Nov. 5 vote, they said.