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Israeli protesters block highways, call for cease-fire to return hostages 9 months into war in Gaza
Marking nine months since the war in Gaza started, Israeli protesters blocked highways across the country calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down and pushing for a cease-fire that could bring back hostages held by Hamas.
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Rafah is a dusty, rubble-strewn ghost town 2 months after Israel invaded to root out Hamas
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Iran detains an outspoken lawyer who criticized 2022 crackdown following Mahsa Amini’s death
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Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon who rose to power in parliament, now Iran’s president-elect
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Special adviser to Syrian President Assad dies following car crash under unclear circumstances
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Turkey’s Erdogan renews push to restore ties with Syria that were severed over a decade ago
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated his willingness to restore ties with Syria and extended an “invitation” Sunday to bring back relations to “how they were in the past.”
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Iran’s naval destroyer has sunk, state media says
Iran’s state media say a naval destroyer has sunk while it was being repaired in a port near the Strait of Hormuz.
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Gaza soccer stadium is now a shelter for thousands of displaced Palestinians
Thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza have sought refuge in one of the territory’s largest soccer arenas.
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Fires have become the most visible sign of the conflict heating up on the Lebanon-Israel border
With cease-fire talks faltering in Gaza and no clear offramp for the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border, the daily exchanges of strikes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces have sparked fires that are tearing through forests and farmland on both sides of the frontline.
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Life and death in Gaza’s ‘safe zone’ where food is scarce and Israel strikes without warning
Palestinian hospital authorities and witnesses say an Israeli airstrike slammed into a residential building right next to the main medical center in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis.
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The Latest | Hamas says ‘positive response’ from mediators to its cease-fire amendments
A spokesperson for Hamas says the group’s proposed amendments to the most recent U.S. plan for a cease-fire in Gaza “have been met with a positive response by the mediators.”
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The Latest | Iran holds runoff election to replace a president killed in a helicopter crash
Iranians have voted in a runoff election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a May helicopter crash in the country’s northwest along with the foreign minister and several other officials.
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Sweden protests against death penalties given to 3 Swedes in Iraq, says a 4th case isn’t confirmed
Sweden’s Foreign Ministry says it will summon the Iraqi chargé d’affaires in Stockholm to protest against death sentences received by Swedes in Iraq.
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Israel approves plans for nearly 5,300 new homes in West Bank settlements
An Israeli anti-settlement monitoring group says the government has approved plans to build nearly 5,300 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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Hezbollah fires over 200 rockets into Israel after killing of senior commander
The Lebanese Hezbollah group says it’s launched over 200 rockets at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders.
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Biden at 81: Often sharp and focused but sometimes confused and forgetful
Behind closed doors, in the Oval Office, on Air Force One or in meetings around the world, many people describe President Joe Biden in the same dual way.
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Turkmenistan and Iran sign deal to supply gas to Iraq. Iran will build pipeline to aid delivery
Turkmenistan and Iran have signed a contract for the delivery of 10 billion cubic meters a year of Turkmen gas that Iran will then ship to Iraq.
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Israeli strike kills another senior Hezbollah commander as diplomats scramble for calm in Lebanon
An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon has killed a senior Hezbollah commander as tensions continue to boil.
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The Latest | Israel kills a top Hezbollah commander in Lebanon; group retaliates with rocket attacks
Israel killed a senior commander in the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the second top field leader killed in less than a month.
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Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decades
A settlement tracking group says Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades.
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Egypt swears in a new Cabinet as mounting economic challenges fuel public discontent
Egypt’s new Cabinet has been sworn in and features major changes in the defense, foreign ministry and economy portfolios as the country faces mounting public discontent and conflicts in neighboring nations.
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Saeed Jalili, a hard-line former negotiator known as a ‘true believer,’ seeks Iran’s presidency
Saeed Jalili is on the precipice of being elected as Iran’s next president as he faces a runoff election Friday against the little-known reform candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon.
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Iran’s presidential candidates discuss economic sanctions and nuclear deal ahead of Friday runoff
Iranian presidential candidates have discussed the impact of economic sanctions imposed on their country by the United States and other Western nations, and presented their views about reviving a nuclear deal with world powers.
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Lebanese authorities charge US Embassy shooter with affiliation to militant Islamic State group
A judge at Lebanon’s military court has charged the gunman who opened fire at the U.S. embassy near Beirut with being affiliated to the militant Islamic State group.
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Man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie rejects plea deal involving terrorism charge
The man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie has rejected a plea deal that would have shortened his state prison term but exposed him to a federal terrorism-related charge.
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Hezbollah’s deputy leader says group would stop fighting with Israel after Gaza cease-fire
The deputy leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says the only definite path to a cease-fire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full cease-fire in Gaza.
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Prosecutors ask France’s highest court to rule on validity of arrest warrant for Syria’s president
French prosecutors have asked the country’s highest court to rule on the validity of the international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad over complicity in war crimes during Syria’s civil war.
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The Latest | Palestinians flee Khan Younis as Israel says 1.9 million are crammed in central Gaza
A new Israeli evacuation order has sent Palestinians in Gaza streaming out of eastern Khan Younis, the second-largest city in the war-torn territory.
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Hunger grips Yemen even more. The UN says more than half of households aren’t eating enough
The United Nations food agency says more than half of households in Yemen are not eating enough due to poor economic conditions and a monthslong pause in food assistance to millions of people in the rebel-held north.
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Turkey’s president accuses opposition of stoking racism after anti-Syrian rioting erupts
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused opposition parties of stoking xenophobia and racism after residents in a neighborhood in central Turkey set Syrian-owned shops on fire.
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The Latest | Israel appears set to reinvade a city in Gaza filled with displaced civilians
The Israeli army has ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from the eastern half of Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza that’s currently filled with displaced civilians.
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Looting and fighting reported in a central Sudan city as paramilitary group attacks military troops
Residents say fighters from Sudan’s notorious paramilitary group have looted homes and shops and taken over the main hospital in a central city, forcing tens of thousands to flee.
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The UN starts to move tons of aid from US-built pier after security fears suspended work there
The United Nations says workers have begun moving tons of humanitarian aid that had been piled up at a United States-built pier off Gaza’s coast and distributing it to warehouses in the besieged territory.
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US and Europe warn Lebanon’s Hezbollah to ease strikes on Israel and back off from wider Mideast war
U.S., European and Arab mediators are pressing to keep stepped-up cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants from spiraling into a wider Middle East war that the world has feared for months.
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UNESCO finds Islamic State group-era bombs in Mosul mosque walls, years after the defeat of IS
The U.N. cultural agency has discovered five bombs hidden within the walls of the historic al-Nouri Mosque in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
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Only 17% of targets to improve life around the world are likely to be reached by 2030, UN reports
The United Nations is warning that only 17% of its 169 targets to improve life for the world’s more than 7 billion people are likely to be reached by the 2030 deadline.
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Iran to hold runoff election with reformist Pezeshkian and hard-liner Jalili after low-turnout vote
Iran will hold a runoff presidential election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi after an initial vote saw the top candidates not secure an outright win in the lowest turnout poll ever held in the Islamic Republic by percentage.
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US removes Gaza aid pier due to weather and may not put it back, officials say
U.S. officials say the pier built by the U.S. military to bring aid to Gaza is being removed due to weather to protect it, and the U.S. is considering not re-installing it unless aid begins flowing out into the population again.
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The Latest | ‘Carry your son and run’: Gaza families describe fleeing Rafah under Israeli fire
Displaced Palestinian families in southern Gaza have fled intensifying Israeli fire in the north Rafah to seek shelter elsewhere.
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Dutch rights groups go back to court seeking to limit export of fighter jet parts to Israel
Human rights groups in the Netherlands have returned to court to again call for stricter enforcement of a court order to halt Dutch exports to Israel of parts for F-35 fighter jets used in the war in Gaza.
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