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Israeli ground forces crossed into southern Lebanon early on Tuesday, marking a significant escalation of an offensive against Hizbullah militants and opening a new front in a year-long war against its Iranian-backed adversaries. The incursion follows weeks of heavy blows…

It’s an unusually muggy afternoon when I meet Moira Buffini in a Dublin city-centre hotel. Visiting from her home in London, she wears a blue blouse, dark jeans and a necklace that, at intervals during our conversation, she will cling…