Top 10 world news: Hezbollah gets new chief; massive drug bust near Delhi, and more
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Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah on Tuesday (Oct 29) declared Sheikh Naim Qassem as its new chief after former leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Israeli strikes. Moreover, the announcement comes after Israel killed Nasrallah’s potential heir Safieddine earlier this month.
In other news, India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday busted a clandestine methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory in Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region), which has been linked to the Mexican drug cartel – Cartel De Jalisco Nueva Generacion.
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Who is Sheikh Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s new white-turbaned chief?
Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah on Tuesday (Oct 29) declared Sheikh Naim Qassem as its new chief, weeks after Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Israeli strikes on Beirut. The Iran-backed group said in a statement, “Hezbollah's (governing) Shura Council agreed to elect... Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary general of Hezbollah." Qassem has been one of the most visible faces of Hezbollah in recent years, even after Nasrallah went underground after the group’s 2006 war with Israel.
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