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Hassan Nasrallah, leader the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and an avowed enemy of Israel, was known for his speeches that dragged on for hours, which he often delivered clad in a traditional Shiite robe and a black turban. According to the Israeli military, the powerful 64-year-old leader died in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut on Friday. Hezbollah has yet to confirm his death. Nasrallah served as the third secretary general of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shiite movement that was formed during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. In the shadow of Lebanon’s economic crisis and repeated milit…

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