Diana Abadi is known in the southern suburbs of Beirut as the "Mother of Cats."

For the past 12 years, she has turned her home and shop into a refuge for abandoned felines who now number between 50 and 70, and she often sleeps beside the cats as she cares for them full time.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has chaired a meeting with national and local officials, during which the decision was made to evacuate 114 buildings, in Tripoli, deemed to be at risk of collapse in stages over the course of a month.

The country's Higher Relief Committee will then work to reinforce the buildings that can be saved, while those that are seriously structurally unsound will be demolished, Salam told journalists after the meeting on Monday. He said a housing allowance would be provided to the evacuated families for one year.

In an operation in southern Lebanon early on Monday, Israelis forces seized a local official with the Jamaa Islamiya group and took him to Israel for questioning, the Israeli military and Lebanese state media reported.

According to the NNA agency, Atwi Atwi — a local official with the Sunni Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, or the Islamic Group in English — was taken in the southern village of Hebbarieh, in the region of Hasbaya and close to the border with Israel.

Hezbollah has replaced a top security official who was in charge of coordination with Lebanon's security agencies after he told the group's leadership that he wants to step down, two officials with the group who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter said.

Wafiq Safa had headed Hezbollah's Liaison and Coordination Unit for decades and it was not immediately clear what his new job within the Iran-backed group is going to be. Hezbollah's leadership accepted Safa's resignation Friday, one of the officials said.

Iran-backed groups in the Middle East, including Hezbollah, should exercise the "greatest restraint" if there is regional escalation between Iran and the United States to avoid destabilizing the region, France's foreign minister said.

Jean-Noël Barrot made his comments in Beirut, where he arrived earlier in the day after visiting Syria and Iraq. His visit also comes as the U.S. and Iran held indirect talks in Oman on how to approach discussions over Tehran's nuclear program.

U.N. peacekeepers patrolling southern Lebanon have faced a dramatic surge of "aggressive behavior" by Israeli forces over the last year, including drone-dropped grenades and machine-gun fire, according to an internal report seen by The Associated Press.

The report by one of the 48 nations that together have more than 7,500 peacekeepers in southern Lebanon says the number of incidents jumped from just one in January to 27 in December. The hilly frontier zone where the UNIFIL force patrols has seen decades of cross-border violence. Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah fought a full-scale war in 2024.

More than 140,000 people were evacuated from their homes in northwestern Morocco as heavy rainfall and water releases from overfilled dams led to flooding, the Interior Ministry said. Stormy weather also disrupted maritime traffic between Morocco and Spain.

Torrential rains and water releases from overfilled dams raised water levels in recent days in rivers such as Loukkous, triggering floods in several towns, including Ksar El Kebir, according to residents and local media.

A woman in Spain who was swept up by a swollen river remained missing Friday as Storm Leonardo pummelled the Iberian Peninsula.

The woman, 45, was reported missing after she fell into a river in the country's southern Malaga province on Wednesday while trying to rescue her dog. Air and canine units have been deployed to find her, Spanish police and local authorities said Friday.

A tropical storm set off flooding and a landslide in the southern Philippines, leaving at least four people dead, displacing more than 6,000 and trapping residents in houses in two flooded villages, officials said Friday.

Tropical Storm Penha slammed ashore onto the southeastern province of Surigao del Sur from the Pacific late Thursday. It was last tracked Friday around noon off central Bohol province with sustained winds of up to 55 kilometers (34 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 70 kph (43mph), according to forecasters.

Pep Guardiola insisted Erling Haaland is the "best striker in the world" despite refusing to confirm if the misfiring Manchester City star will start Sunday's crucial clash with Liverpool.

Haaland has scored just twice in his last 12 appearances, and Guardiola elected to drop him to the bench for City's 3-1 win over Newcastle in the League Cup semi-final second leg on Wednesday.