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France and Italy want a new multinational force to take over when the UN peacekeeping mission UNIFIL ends in Lebanon at the turn of the year.
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The UN maritime agency, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), is to evacuate more than 11,000 sailors stuck on their ships in the Gulf as a result of the US and Israel's war against Iran.
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