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Many Democrats have followed Biden’s lead in endorsing Harris, but some prominent voices have refrained from backing her so far. President Joe Biden has dropped out from the US election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. While many Democrats have rallied behind Biden’s decision and shown their support for Harris, some prominent voices have refrained from endorsing her.

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Now, the conversation is fast moving around who will serve as Harris’ running mate. With only 28 days until the Democratic National Convention begins in Chicago, where Harris presumably will be officially nominated, the scramble to find the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee has begun.

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Now, the conversation is fast moving around who will serve as Harris’ running mate. With only 28 days until the Democratic National Convention begins in Chicago, where Harris presumably will be officially nominated, the scramble to find the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee has begun.

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On Monday, Harris won the crucial backing of Democratic heavyweight Nancy Pelosi, the former US House speaker and a key figure in ousting the 81-year-old Biden. “With immense pride and limitless optimism for our country’s future, I endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for President of the United States,” Pelosi, 84, said in a message on X.

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In its sweeping judgment, the ICJ ran through a list of Israeli practices that it said violated international law, including confiscating land, building Israeli settlements in the territories, and depriving Palestinians of natural resources and the right to self-determination.

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The United Nations’ top court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal, in an unprecedented opinion that called on Israel to end its decades-long occupation of territories claimed by Palestinians for a future state.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other politicians rejected the ICJ opinion. “The Jewish people are not conquerors in their own land,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “No false decision in The Hague will distort this historical truth, just as the legality of Israeli settlement in all the territories of our homeland cannot be contested.”

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The court called on Israel to cease new settlement activity, evacuate settlers and make reparations for the damage caused. “The sustained abuse by Israel of its position as an occupying Power, through annexation and an assertion of permanent control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory and continued frustration of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, violates fundamental principles of international law and renders Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory unlawful,” the opinion read.

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The sustained abuse by Israel of its position as an occupying Power, through annexation and an assertion of permanent control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory and continued frustration of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, violates fundamental principles of international law and renders Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory unlawful.

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The United Nations’ top court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal, in an unprecedented opinion that called on Israel to end its decades-long occupation of territories claimed by Palestinians for a future state.

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The company had reported that the issue was related to its Falcon sensor product, engineers identifying a 'content deployment problem', said Hull.

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The White House says it is 'looking into' the disruption caused by Friday morning’s cyber outages. 'We’re aware of the incident and are looking into the issue and impacts,' a White House National Security Council spokesperson told CNN.

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As of 6 a.m. ET, there were 1,390 canceled flights globally. That figure is growing.

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The White House says it is 'looking into' the disruption caused by Friday morning’s cyber outages. 'We’re aware of the incident and are looking into the issue and impacts,' a White House National Security Council spokesperson told CNN.

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The UK government held an emergency COBR meeting to discuss the global tech outage, Downing Street said Friday, according to PA media.

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The company had reported that the issue was related to its Falcon sensor product, engineers identifying a 'content deployment problem', said Hull.

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In private messages, he wondered ahead of Trump’s election whether he was 'America’s Hitler' and in 2017 said the then-president was a 'moral disaster.'

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In public, he agreed Trump was a 'total fraud' who didn’t care about regular people and called him 'reprehensible.'

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He told CNN ahead of the 2016 election that he was 'definitely not' voting for Trump and he also contemplated voting for Hillary Clinton (he ultimately said he planned to vote for independent candidate Evan McMullin.)

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Vance also liked tweets that said Trump committed 'serial sexual assault,' called him 'one of USA’s most hated, villainous, douchey celebs,' and harshly criticized Trump’s response to the deadly 2017 White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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In September 2016, Vance argued Trump’s immigration policies like the 'great Mexican Wall,' were overly simplistic and aimed to give folks something to latch on to.

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Vance also said that racism and xenophobia played a role in Trump’s rise. 'There is definitely an element of Donald Trump’s support that has its basis in racism, xenophobia, but a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways,' Vance said in a September 2016 'PBS NewsHour' Interview.

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Biden, Trump stress unity after rally shooting upends presidential race

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Biden, who has cast Trump as a serious danger to US democracy, temporarily suspended television advertisements and political messaging in the wake of the attack.

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Some political analysts have suggested that the attack will bolster the likelihood of a Trump victory in November, particularly as it took place in Pennsylvania, a key swing state that is considered crucial to Biden’s re-election hopes.

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A United Nations report says 96 percent of Gaza’s population is food insecure, and one in five Palestinians, or about 495,000 people, face starvation amid Israel’s nine-month war on the territory.

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The aid groups have said that while any amount of food for Gaza is welcome, many have criticised the project as a costly distraction, saying the US should concentrate on pressuring Israel to allow more aid through land borders, which have long been considered the most productive option.

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The UN suspended all World Food Programme (WFP) deliveries from the pier after a June 8 Israeli military raid that secured the release of four Israeli hostages but killed hundreds of Palestinians, citing concerns that troops used an area near there for flying out the rescued hostages by helicopter.

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A staggering 24 hours that cracked the political foundation of Joe Biden’s reelection bid leave him facing the most high-pressure presidential news conference in modern history on Thursday.

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Biden fielded a question from a donor about what he needs to do in the second debate – currently scheduled for September 10 – to perform better than he did in the first debate, during which 51 million Americans watched his meandering and low-energy performance.

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The Biden campaign has convened the National Finance Committee three times in the wake of the June 27 debate, which stirred acute concerns within the party about Biden’s viability and questions about the future of his campaign’s finances.

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One Wall Street donor said there continues to be 'plenty of noise' agitating for an alternative among executives previously inclined to support Biden, but it remains 'unclear whether it will penetrate to the bunker,' a reference to the insular group of longtime advisers who counsel the president most closely and have supported his decision to stay in the race.

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What happened in France’s shock election, and what comes next?

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After the first round, an unprecedented number of seats – over 300 – went to a three-way runoff between Ensemble, the NFP and the RN. By Tuesday, more than 200 centrist and left-wing candidates withdrew from the second round, in a bid to avoid splitting the vote.

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The RN’s strong showing in the first round stirred fears that France could be on the cusp of electing its first far-right government since the collaborationist Vichy regime of World War II. But Sunday’s projection comes as a huge upset and shows French voters’ overwhelming desire to keep the far right from gaining power.

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The US government employees who have publicly resigned in protest of the Biden administration’s Gaza policies released a joint statement on Tuesday for the first time, stating they “stand united in a shared belief that it is our collective responsibility to speak up” and outlining steps they believe the US government should take.

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A group of former United States government officials have claimed that Washington’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza puts national security at risk.

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The joint statement lays out six recommendations to the US government. Among them are a call for the US government to “faithfully execute the law,” saying that “it is abundantly clear that the Administration is currently willfully violating multiple U.S. laws and attempting to deny or distort facts, use loopholes, or manipulate processes to ensure a continuous flow of lethal weapons to Israel.”

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A group of former United States government officials have claimed that Washington’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza puts national security at risk.

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The joint statement lays out six recommendations to the US government. Among them are a call for the US government to “faithfully execute the law,” saying that “it is abundantly clear that the Administration is currently willfully violating multiple U.S. laws and attempting to deny or distort facts, use loopholes, or manipulate processes to ensure a continuous flow of lethal weapons to Israel.”

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A group of former United States government officials have claimed that Washington’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza puts national security at risk.

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Gaza’s Ministry of Health says nearly 38,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war, with many more feared to be under the rubble as Israeli bombardments flattened once-populated areas of the besieged enclave.

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That’s because the country has strict rules on reporting while people are still voting. They apply to all broadcasters accessible in the United Kingdom, including CNN, forbidding them from reporting on campaign issues, opinion polls, political statements and candidates until the polling stations shut in the evening. The restrictions are far stronger than in many countries, such as the United States, where candidates continue campaigning on election day as they try to drive as many voters to the polls as possible. The UK’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) enforces the regulations, which are designed to ensure political coverage is impartial and to prevent the media from influencing voters as ballots are being cast.

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Britain has a first-past-the-post voting system – the make-up of its next parliament won’t be decided by vote share, but by how many seats each party wins. People have been casting ballots in each of the country’s 650 constituencies, selecting the member of parliament (MP) to represent the area. The leader of the party that wins a majority of those constituencies becomes prime minister, and can form a government. That means 326 is the magic number for an overall majority.

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Some leading Democrats, including at least one high-ranking Biden administration official, have already started discussing what they believe would be a painful process to replace Biden and pick a new ticket.

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But despite criticisms of Biden’s debate-night performance, Democrats rallied around the president in the hours after the event, repeating accusations that Trump represents an existential threat to US democracy.

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Many leading Democrats doubt that Biden is up to that — and they see his secluded schedule since Sunday as evidence they are correct.

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If Joe Biden has one thing in his favour, it’s that there’s five months until the election. So they have time to fix this. But how they do that, that’s the concern.

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The stakes, already remarkable, were raised even higher after the Supreme Court on Monday ruled Trump is entitled to considerable immunity from prosecution, a development that some concerned Democrats say makes it more urgent for Biden to step aside.

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The debate was unusual for several reasons, not least because of its historically early timing: Both Biden and Trump pushed to move the first presidential debate of the election cycle to June, to avoid overlaps with early voting, which begins in some states in September.

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Speaking outside the court, Assange’s US lawyer Barry Pollack said he had “suffered tremendously in his fight for free speech and freedom of the press.” “The prosecution of Julian Assange is unprecedented in the 100 years of the Espionage Act,” Pollack told reporters.

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Asked by the judge, Honorable Ramona Manglona, to describe what he had done to be charged, Assange said: “Working as a journalist, I encouraged my source to provide information that was said to be classified in order to publish that information. I believe that the First Amendment protected that activity… I believe the First Amendment and the Espionage Act are in contradiction with each other, but I accept that it would be difficult to win such a case given all these circumstances.”

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In a stunning turn of events, the 52-year-old Australian was released from a high-security prison in London on Monday afternoon and had already boarded a private jet to leave the United Kingdom before the world even knew of his agreement with the US government. He appeared in a US courtroom on the Northern Mariana Islands to formalize the agreement, officially pleading guilty to conspiring unlawfully to obtain and disseminate classified information over his alleged role in one of the largest breaches of classified material in US military history.

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At least five people were killed, including three children, in a Ukrainian attack on Crimea on Sunday, according to the Russian defence ministry, which said the supply of missiles made the United States responsible for the attack.

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The US State Department has dismissed the Russian claims as 'baseless' and reiterated its support for Ukraine's right to defend itself.

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The Ukrainian attack on the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula was conducted with five US-supplied Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles, the Russian defence ministry said. It added that four had been shot down, and that a fifth had detonated in mid-air.

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The latest escalation in the Ukraine-Russia conflict has drawn sharp reactions from international leaders, with NATO calling for an emergency meeting to address the situation.

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The Israeli prime minister reiterated he would not agree to any deal that calls for an end to the eight-month war.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has walked back from his comments where he appeared to dismiss the latest Israeli ceasefire proposal backed by the United States.

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The US military delivered more than 1,000 metric tons over its temporary pier off the coast of Gaza over the weekend, US Central Command said Monday in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

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Israel’s military offensive on Gaza has since killed at least 37,598 people, according to the Palestinian territory’s Ministry of Health.

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Hamas said Netanyahu’s remarks show that Israel is not seeking a ceasefire deal but looking to buy time to continue the “war of extermination” against Gaza.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has walked back from his comments where he appeared to dismiss the latest Israeli ceasefire proposal backed by the United States.

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More than 2,900 acres — or almost 12 square kilometers — of southern Gaza has been affected by bulldozing or has experienced significant destruction by military strikes since the start of the Israel Defense Forces ground operation in Rafah.

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The investigation revealed the Israeli tank was likely just 13 to 23 metres (42 to 75 feet) away when it opened fire on Rajab and her relatives in their car. Through interviews with family members, Palestinian Civil Defence workers and medical responders, the documentary provides the most comprehensive account on video of the incident to date.

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Rajab’s death caused global condemnation, including in the United States, which has been supporting Israel’s war on Gaza. One of two active US airmen seeking to leave military service and become a conscientious objector over Washington’s support for Israel’s war said Rajab’s killing marked a turning point for him.

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The orange powder paint sprayed onto Britain’s most famous prehistoric structure, Stonehenge, by environmental protesters on Wednesday has been removed, leaving 'no visible damage,' according to the organization that manages the site.

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He confirmed that the site is open to the public and that summer solstice celebrations, which are expected to attract huge crowds, will go ahead as normal.

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The Just Stop Oil protestors demanded the incoming government sign up to a legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuels by 2030.

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On Thursday, two more activists from the group caused a scene at London’s Stansted Airport after they sprayed orange paint on two private jets on the runway where Taylor Swift’s private jet is suspected to have landed. The pop star is in London on her Eras world tour and is set to play three shows in London this weekend. Just Stop Oil posted videos on their social media channels showing two activists breaking into the airfield, cutting into the fence and spraying orange paint on the aircraft. The same group made headlines last month when two protesters smashed the glass protecting the Magna Carta, a famous British manuscript from the 13th century, at the British Museum in London.

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But observers say Ukraine needs a completely free hand to strike Russian soil if it is to win the war. Russia has failed to make any significant gains in its war in Ukraine during the past week, and suffered a number of setbacks on its own soil, in occupied Crimea and occupied Georgia.

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South Africa’s rand currency was trading up about 0.3% against the dollar, helped by reports by the SABC and other local media of a deal including the ANC and DA, which has been the preferred option in the eyes of markets and investors, according to Reuters.

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Under the unprecedented coalition agreement, the Democratic Alliance (DA) – the African National Congress’s (ANC) official opposition until now – and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) voted for an ANC president for the first time. The multiparty coalition was prompted after the ANC suffered its worst electoral decline in 30 years. The party holds 159 of 400 seats in parliament – short of the 201 seats needed to have a majority – after winning 40 percent of the vote in the country’s May 29 election.

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But the left-leaning Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and former President Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK Party) – which was created months before the election and ate into the ANC’s traditional voter support – refused to join the government, especially with the DA a part of it.

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The hard part starts now, say analysts.

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“Today marks the beginning of a new era where we put our differences aside and unite for the betterment of all South Africans,” wrote Sihle Zikalala, of the ANC’s governing body, in a post on X.

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The Security Council adopted the US-drafted resolution with 14 votes in favor, zero against and one abstention by Russia.

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The doctor in charge of medical treatment for the four Israeli hostages rescued Saturday said they were beaten while in Hamas captivity in Gaza. “It was a harsh, harsh, experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day,” Dr. Itai Pessach told CNN’s Paula Hancocks at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan outside Tel Aviv.

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “the United States and other world leaders will stand behind” the proposal for a release of the hostages and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

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The respective parties involved include the ANC, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the DA, Steenhuisen outlined in his statement.

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“Today, the 14th of June 2024 will go down in the annals of history as the start of a new chapter for our beloved country,” Steenhuisen said.

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South Africa’s rand currency was trading up about 0.3% against the dollar, helped by reports by the SABC and other local media of a deal including the ANC and DA, which has been the preferred option in the eyes of markets and investors, according to Reuters.

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President Joe Biden arrived with over 300 new sanctions aimed at further isolating the country and limiting the Kremlin’s revenues. He is also set to sign a long-term security pact with Ukraine, sources tell CNN.

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From frozen Russian assets to growing West-China tensions, leading advanced economies have thorny issues to tackle. Bari, Italy – Leaders of advanced economies are gearing up for the annual Group of Seven (G7) meeting in Italy in a year marked by wars – in Europe and the Middle East – and growing competition between the West and China.

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President Joe Biden arrived with over 300 new sanctions aimed at further isolating the country and limiting the Kremlin’s revenues. He is also set to sign a long-term security pact with Ukraine, sources tell CNN.

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But while the number of guests is usually small, Italy has invited a record number of leaders — from Pope Francis and Jordan’s King Abdullah II to the leaders of Ukraine, India, Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania. In addition, the secretary-general of the United Nations and heads of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the African Development Bank, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will be present.

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His son’s conviction is a big blow to Joe Biden ahead of the election. The trial began days after Trump was convicted of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels after a sexual encounter.

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Biden reaffirmed that he would not pardon his son, echoing a commitment he made last week, before he was convicted in his gun case. The president also went a step further Thursday, saying he would not consider commuting his son’s sentence.

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Additionally, they might note that he has been sober since 2019. Hunter Biden’s legal woes do not end here as he also faces tax evasion charges.

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First lady Dr. Jill Biden was in the courtroom for most of the trial, making several transatlantic flights to be by Hunter Biden’s side while the first family was in France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The president’s siblings, Valerie and James, also appeared in court to support Hunter Biden.

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Costas Panagopoulos, head of Northeastern University’s Department of Political Science, said in an interview with the university’s news website that Hunter Biden’s and Trump’s convictions reinforce that the US judicial system is working under President Biden, contradicting Trump’s allegation that it is rigged.

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Hunter Biden was found guilty on three federal charges this week, punctuating an emotionally tumultuous trial that unearthed many dark and private moments for the Biden family.

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An American college instructor has recounted the horror of surviving a stabbing attack in China, offering the first personal account of an incident that has been given limited media coverage within the country. David Zabner is one of four Cornell College instructors attacked Monday while visiting a busy public park in the northeast Chinese city of Jilin, where they were teaching on a partnership program with a local university. Police in Jilin said they “quickly arrived at the scene” and “swiftly apprehended” a 55-year-old man.

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“We are working through proper channels and requesting to speak with the US Embassy on appropriate matters to ensure that the victims first receive quality care for their injuries and then get out of China in a medically feasible manner,” Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a member of the US House of Representatives from Iowa, wrote on X. The state’s governor, Kim Reynolds, wrote on X that she was in touch with the US Department of State on the “horrifying” attack.

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A video of people lying on the ground in a park covered in blood was circulating on the social media platform X on Monday. There was no sign of the images on Chinese social media. Reuters was able to identify the location based on Chinese characters written on a wall, the wall’s structure and the layout of the path. Reuters was not able to confirm when the video was shot.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping this year pledged to invite 50,000 young Americans to China for study programmes to boost people-to-people ties, but a US State Department level 3 travel advisory on China warning of possible arbitrary detention and exit bans remains in place. There are fewer than 900 American exchange students studying in China compared with more than 290,000 Chinese students in the US, according to US data.

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UN inquiry says Israel and Hamas have both committed war crimes since October 7

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The projected gains for the hard right in the European parliamentary elections may seem modest in terms of pure numbers, but they are significant. The results represent a major challenge to the pro-Europe mainstream officials who dominate the institutions of the European Union.

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The ground beneath the feet of European Union leaders has shifted after voting across the 27-member bloc delivered a clear turn to the right in the European Parliament, shaking up governments in member states and leaving mainstream groups at a crossroads.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party, in coalition with the country’s Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP), has come out on top with 43.7% of the vote, according to an exit poll. However, this is a roughly 10% drop in support since 2019.

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Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy party has a clear lead ahead of the country’s Democratic Party (PD) with 28% of the vote, according to an exit poll.

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Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has resigned after his party suffered a disastrous defeat in national and European parliamentary elections on Sunday.

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to arrive in the Middle East to push the latest proposal for a ceasefire in Israel’s war in Gaza.

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Late on Sunday, Benny Gantz announced he was resigning as Israeli war cabinet minister.

Al Jazeera

Blinken’s trip comes two days after the Israeli military killed at least 274 Palestinians and wounded 698 more in Nuseirat in central Gaza as part of an operation that led to the release of four Israelis from Hamas captivity.

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Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said bodies continue to arrive at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, threatening to overwhelm the only operating hospital in the area.

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As well as pressing the ceasefire proposal, the US official is set to discuss the reopening of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, a vital point for aid shipments into Gaza that Israel seized amid its ground invasion of the south of the enclave last month.

CNN

The latest bloodshed in Gaza could further estrange Biden from progressives in his electoral coalition who are outraged at his support for Israel, its operations and its failure to do more to shield civilians.

Al Jazeera

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), representing 57 member states, most of whom are Muslim-majority, condemned what it called “the horrific massacre carried out by the Israeli occupation army, which resulted in the murder and injury of hundreds of Palestinians, most of them women and children”.

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Fallout from an Israeli special forces rescue mission in Gaza, which retrieved four hostages but killed scores of Palestinian civilians...

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Calls to end Gaza ‘bloodbath’ after Israeli attack kills 274 Palestinians

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The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), representing 57 member states, most of whom are Muslim-majority, condemned what it called “the horrific massacre carried out by the Israeli occupation army, which resulted in the murder and injury of hundreds of Palestinians, most of them women and children”.

CNN

Fallout from an Israeli special forces rescue mission in Gaza, which retrieved four hostages but killed scores of Palestinian civilians, and the resignation of centrist Benny Gantz from Israel’s war cabinet on Sunday sharpened political and diplomatic dilemmas Biden has struggled for months to reconcile.

CNN

The doctor in charge of medical treatment for the four Israeli hostages rescued Saturday said they were beaten while in Hamas captivity in Gaza. “It was a harsh, harsh, experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day,” Dr. Itai Pessach told CNN’s Paula Hancocks at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan outside Tel Aviv.

Al Jazeera

The announcement about the raid in Nuseirat on Saturday came as Palestinian health officials said at least 210 people were killed and wounded in Israeli attacks on central Gaza. Local residents said Nuseirat had come under heavy Israeli drone and air raids, with children among those killed.

CNN

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “the United States and other world leaders will stand behind” the proposal for a release of the hostages and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

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“It was a harsh, harsh, experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day,” Dr. Itai Pessach told CNN’s Paula Hancocks at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan outside Tel Aviv.

Al Jazeera

The army said the four captives... were in “good medical condition” and were taken to hospital for medical checks following a “complex daytime operation”.

CNN

The latest figures from Gazan authorities say 274 Palestinians were killed and 698 injured... The IDF has disputed those numbers, saying it estimated the number of casualties from the operation was 'under 100.'

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Initially, official figures stood at 50 civilian deaths in the operation, which climbed steadily to 226, then to 274, as confirmed by the Government Media Office.

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Eyewitnesses have described civilians being struck down by airstrikes and shrapnel. One local Palestinian man named Abu Abdallah told a CNN stringer on the ground that people were struck in their homes at around 5am local time.

Al Jazeera

Yesterday was anything but ordinary. It felt like descending into the depths of hell, the war returned to its brutality and intensity as the world erupted into chaos, engulfed in flames, shelling and bombing.

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Families of the hostages expressed their overwhelming joy at having their loved ones returned safely. Orit Meir, mother of Almog Meir Jan, said at a news conference Saturday that she was excited to hug her son again.

Al Jazeera

The hospital, overflowing with displaced families and makeshift media tents, stood as the lone medical facility in central Gaza, dealing with a staggering number of casualties. What fate awaited these people?

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Families of the hostages expressed their overwhelming joy at having their loved ones returned safely. Orit Meir, mother of Almog Meir Jan, said at a news conference Saturday that she was excited to hug her son again.

Al Jazeera

Then we heard that the Israeli army had told the hospital to evacuate. It was crazy. In that moment, I thanked God I hadn’t been at the hospital but I could feel the terror that was probably unfolding there.

Al Jazeera

PM Modi faces the test of ruling a coalition government. It won’t be easy, say analysts. But the past holds lessons. Narendra Modi is likely to return as India’s prime minister for a third term but will have to rely on allies to run a coalition government for the first time after his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fell short of a majority.

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The BJP emerged as the single-largest party for the first time in 1996. The party won 161 seats while the Congress stood second at 140 seats, and the JD was a distant third with 46 seats. Vajpayee was sworn in as prime minister, but he could not win a majority in the parliament. His government lasted only for 13 days.

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The army said the four captives – Noa Argamani, 25; Almog Meir Jan, 21; Andrey Kozlov, 27; and Shlomi Ziv; 40 – had been taken from a music festival during the attack Palestinian group Hamas led in southern Israel on October 7.

Al Jazeera

Palestinian health officials said at least 210 people were killed and wounded in Israeli attacks on central Gaza. Local residents said Nuseirat had come under heavy Israeli drone and air raids, with children among those killed.

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Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told the Reuters news agency after the Israeli army’s announcement that “regaining four captives after nine months of fighting is a sign of failure not an achievement”.

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For its part, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, an Israeli group that has pressured the government to do more to return captives, hailed the rescue on Saturday as “heroic”.

Al Jazeera

The rescue mission forced Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz to delay what had been a planned statement he was due to give on Saturday, in which he was expected to announce his resignation from Netanyahu’s government.

CNN

The Israeli military defended its strike of a United Nations school in central Gaza on Thursday, calling it a 'precise intelligence-based strike targeting dozens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.'

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The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday condemned a deadly Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza.

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The Biden administration has spent the last week pushing allies in the Middle East to make specific threats to Hamas, as part of an urgent campaign to prod the group toward accepting the latest Israeli ceasefire and hostage proposal that would pause the fighting in Gaza.

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A CNN analysis found that the airstrike at the UN school was conducted with a US-made weapon.

Al Jazeera

In Paris on Friday, Biden apologised to Zelenskyy for previous delays in Washington’s aid to Kyiv, stressing that the US is “not going to walk away” from supporting Ukraine. “We’re still in – completely, thoroughly,” he said.

Al Jazeera

That has come as some support from Western allies has flagged. Still, Kyiv received a boost in recent weeks, with France and Germany at the end of May allowing Ukraine to use the weapons they provided against targets on Russian soil. The US soon followed suit, giving Ukraine permission to use weapons provided by Washington in Russian territory near Kharkiv.

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Biden and Macron also discussed their support for using interest earned from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine, a move that has been met with scepticism from some European G7 allies.

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The Israeli military confirmed it carried out the airstrike, which it said targeted a Hamas compound operating inside the school. Israeli military spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner later told journalists the military was not 'aware of any civilian casualties.'

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A CNN analysis of video from the scene and a review by an explosive weapons expert found that US-made munitions were used in the strike on the school. CNN identified fragments of at least two US-made GBU-39 small diameter bombs (SDB) in video filmed at the scene by a journalist working for CNN.

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He also accused Hamas of violating international law by allegedly using the UN school as an operational base.

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CNN’s Jessie Yeung contributed to this report from Mumbai.

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On Sunday, two days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to halt its offensive on Rafah, Israeli bombardment killed at least 45 people in al-Mawasi in western Rafah, which was previously declared a safe zone. Another Israeli attack killed 21 in a displacement camp west of Rafah on Tuesday, at least 12 of those killed were women.

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It’s unclear exactly what the image is. A series of tents? Truck beds against a rust orange background? Multicolored rectangles? Mountains are visible in the background, and in the foreground are the following words: “All Eyes on Rafah” — a reference to the southernmost Gazan city that became the center of war coverage this week, after an Israeli strike on a refugee camp in the city, on what had been labeled a safe zone, killed dozens of already displaced Palestinians.

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An AI generated image with the text ‘All eyes on Rafah’ has been re-shared over 46 million times amid Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s Rafah.

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Likely created using artificial intelligence, the graphic — which is not an actual picture from Rafah or the war in Gaza — has been shared more than 46 million times on Instagram alone. It’s become so ubiquitous, comedian Tim Dillon noted it’s been shared like “it’s a new show on NBC.”

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On Sunday, two days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to halt its offensive on Rafah, Israeli bombardment killed at least 45 people in al-Mawasi in western Rafah, which was previously declared a safe zone.

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A South Korean official pledged his country would take “unendurable measures” against North Korea for sending more trash balloons this weekend, which will be “specified in the coming days.”

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North Korea says it will stop sending rubbish-filled balloons across the border into South Korea, claiming its campaign has been an effective countermeasure against propaganda sent by anti-regime activists in the neighbouring country.

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South Korea said its military is working with the police, local government, safety ministry, and the United Nations Command to safely retrieve the balloons and the debris.

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South Korea has called the balloons and simultaneous GPS jamming from its nuclear-armed neighbour “irrational” and “low class”.

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North Korea is almost completely closed off from the rest of the world, with tight control over what information gets in or out. Foreign materials including movies and books are banned, with only a few state-sanctioned exceptions; those caught with foreign contraband often face severe punishment, defectors say.

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The Israeli military launched its incursion into Rafah in early May despite international objections over the fate of Palestinian civilians sheltering there. A strike over the weekend that started a fire and killed dozens in a displacement camp drew a wave of new condemnation, including a social media campaign with the slogan “All eyes on Rafah” that has been shared by tens of millions of users.

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Until the treaty, the two countries had been at war since Israel’s founding in 1948. The pact saw Israel return the Sinai Peninsula it captured from Egypt in the 1967 war in exchange for peace, and eventually paved the way for Egypt’s recognition of Israel. A key buffer zone: The landmark treaty demilitarized the border area between Israel and Egypt, including an area referred to as Zone D, where Gaza’s Philadelphi Corridor lies.

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President Joe Biden had earlier warned that the US would stop supplying American weapons to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a major invasion of Rafah. However Biden’s administration is yet to take action on that promise, saying that so far — the strikes that killed at least 45 people, of whom many were children sheltering in tents — have not crossed that red line.

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A strike over the weekend that started a fire and killed dozens in a displacement camp drew a wave of new condemnation, including a social media campaign with the slogan “All eyes on Rafah” that has been shared by tens of millions of users.

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The Israeli military on Thursday said it had established “operational control” over the Corridor, a move that Egyptian officials have previously warned against. The corridor has to be treated “with great caution as it is close to the Egyptian border,” Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid said in February.

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Israeli airstrike in Rafah kills 45, sparks international outcry

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At least 21 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on a tent camp housing displaced families in al-Mawasi, near Gaza’s southern city of Rafah

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Our live coverage of the Israel-Hamas war has moved here. The head of Israel’s National Security Council said the country expects “another seven months of fighting” in Gaza to achieve the claimed objective of destroying Hamas.

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At least 21 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on a tent camp housing displaced families in al-Mawasi, near Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, according to Palestinian medical officials and the official Palestinian news agency, days after an Israeli strike on another camp drew global condemnation.

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Two medics with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) were killed in the Tal al-Sultan area following Israeli bombardment, according to PRCS and the Ministry of Health in Gaza on Wednesday.

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At least 12 of those killed in the attacks in Rafah governorate on Tuesday were women, medical officials in the Palestinian enclave said.

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The Slovenian government raised a Palestinian flag alongside the flags of Slovenia and the EU in front of its building in downtown Ljubljana.

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Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said his country made the decision, which was strongly condemned by Israel, 'to keep the miracle of peace alive.'

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Of the 27 members of the European Union, Sweden, Cyprus, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria have already recognised a Palestinian state. Malta has said it could follow soon. Britain and Australia have said they are also considering recognition, but France has said now is not the time. Germany joined Israel’s staunchest ally, the United States, in rejecting a unilateral approach, insisting that a two-state solution can only be achieved through dialogue.

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Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognized Palestinian statehood on Tuesday, cementing a joint move that further isolates Israel over its war against Hamas in Gaza. Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said his country made the decision, which was strongly condemned by Israel, 'to keep the miracle of peace alive.'

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Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognized Palestinian statehood on Tuesday, cementing a joint move that further isolates Israel over its war against Hamas in Gaza.

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On May 28, Spain, Ireland and Norway officially recognised a Palestinian state, prompting an angry reaction from Israel.

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Israel’s war cabinet is expected to meet Sunday at 9 p.m. local time (2 p.m. ET) and discuss hostage and ceasefire deal negotiations, an Israeli official told CNN.

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Hamas issued a statement holding the US administration and President Joe Biden personally accountable for the attack.

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Eighty-one people have been killed and 223 have been injured as a result of Israeli military operations in Gaza in the last 24 hours, the health ministry in Gaza reported Sunday.

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Hamas called for immediate international intervention, urging the swift implementation of decisions by the International Court of Justice, which has ordered Israel to halt its offensive in Rafah.

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An Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza city of Jabalya killed at least four people Sunday, medics at the scene told a journalist working for CNN.

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International outcry is mounting over Israel's airstrike on a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah that killed at least 45 people and wounded 200 others, many of whom were women and children. In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the strike a 'tragic error' and said that Israel was investigating the incident.

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France and Germany have joined a chorus of growing global outrage over the Israeli's strike on the displacement camp in Rafah that killed at least 45 people on Sunday, including women and children. In a post on X, French President Emmanuel Macron said he was 'outraged by the Israeli strikes that have killed many displaced persons in Rafah.'

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More than two dozen people were killed in Israel strikes on two camps on Tuesday, according to Palestinian officials.

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At least 21 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on a tent camp housing displaced families in al-Mawasi, near Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, according to Palestinian medical officials and the official Palestinian news agency.

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At least 12 of those killed in the attacks in Rafah governorate on Tuesday were women, medical officials in the Palestinian enclave said.

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The Israeli military is looking into the possibility that Sunday’s strike on Rafah may have unintentionally set off possible stored weapons in a nearby compound and a large fire that decimated part of a camp housing displaced Palestinians, according to spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.

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Protesters in cities across Europe gathered to voice opposition to the deadly strike carried out Sunday by Israel on a camp housing displaced people in Rafah in southern Gaza.

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The health ministry in Gaza said in a telegram post that 64 people were wounded in the attack, including 10 in a critical condition.

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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a new message for supporters on the campaign trail: God has chosen him.

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He dives into allegations of corruption, misuse of supposedly independent institutions and subversion of democratic processes levelled by critics against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

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Modi’s grandest display of divinity was on display in January this year, when he consecrated the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, a controversial Hindu temple that was built on the site of a destroyed mosque.

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It’s an intense 29-minute video, packed with Rathee’s monologue, slick animations and infographics, as he accuses the Modi government of systematically attacking the media and opposition.

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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a new message for supporters on the campaign trail: God has chosen him.

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At a time when studies show that more Indians trust news they get on YouTube and WhatsApp than what they source from mainstream news channels, Rathee has emerged as a formidable digital force.

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Several countries and global organisations have condemned the Israeli air attack on tents housing displaced people in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah that killed at least 40 Palestinians, including many children.

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Israel’s tanks were seen in central Rafah on Tuesday for the first time since its military entered Gaza’s southernmost city earlier this month, two eyewitnesses told CNN, signaling a new phase in its offensive despite mounting global pressure.