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Israel Says a Hamas Hostage’s Body Was Recovered Near Al-Shifa Hospital
[ad_1] Israeli soldiers have recovered the body of one of the hostages kidnapped during the Hamas-led attack on Israel last month from a building next to the Al-Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza City, the Israeli military said on Thursday night. The body of Yehudit Weiss, 65, a resident of Be’eri, a kibbutz near the border with Gaza, was found by…
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International Court Orders Syria to Stop Torture of Political Opponents
[ad_1] Judges at the U.N.’s highest court on Thursday ordered Syria’s government to stop torturing its imprisoned opponents, seeking to stop the abuses that have become a notorious hallmark of the country’s long civil war that has left hundreds of thousands dead. In the first ruling from an international court on the abuses of the war, which began in 2011,…
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Pressure Mounts as Israel Searches Al-Shifa Hospital for Hamas Presence
[ad_1] Israeli troops on Thursday scoured the largest hospital in Gaza for a second day, searching for a Hamas presence or any evidence that the armed Palestinian group had used tunnels underneath it as a secret base, even as Israel came under increasing pressure from Western allies to curtail civilian deaths and ease the suffering of Gaza’s population. Although the…
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Canada Convicts Nathaniel Veltman In Killing Of Muslim Family
[ad_1] For four seconds, Nathaniel Veltman floored the gas pedal, hurtling his pickup truck toward a Muslim family of five out for an evening walk in London, Ontario, killing four of them. The lone survivor was a 9-year-old boy. The jury, after less than a day of deliberating, found Mr. Veltman, 22, guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and…
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For Biden, a Subtle Shift in the Power Balance With China’s Xi Jinping
[ad_1] When President Biden met President Xi Jinping on Wednesday on the edges of Silicon Valley, there was a subtle but noticeable shift in the power dynamic between two countries that have spent most of the past few years denouncing, undercutting and imposing sanctions on each other. For the first time in years, a Chinese leader desperately needed a few…
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San Francisco Protesters Demanding Gaza Cease-fire Shut Down Bay Bridge
[ad_1] Protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza shut down westbound traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Thursday morning, interrupting Bay Area commuter traffic into San Francisco. The demonstration was one of the most disruptive protests so far associated with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in San Francisco, where pro-Palestinian activists have focused on trying to capture the attention…
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Panda Diplomacy Might Not Be Dead Just Yet
[ad_1] The fur balls might be coming back to Washington and San Diego. Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said in a speech on Wednesday night that his nation’s best diplomats, giant pandas, might soon return to zoos in the United States that have recently sent bears back to their homeland. “We are ready to continue our cooperation with the United States…
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Biden Aims to Fortify Ties With Asian Nations After Xi Summit
[ad_1] President Biden will work to strengthen U.S. ties with Asian nations on Thursday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, one day after he held an hourslong meeting with President Xi Jinping of China at a moment of deep tension between the two countries. When he speaks to executives on Thursday morning and during later planning meetings, he will announce…
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How International Law Views Israel’s Military Action at Al-Shifa Hospital
[ad_1] The Israeli military has seized the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa. Israel says it needed to capture the hospital, in Gaza City, to destroy a Hamas command center and underground facilities that it says are there. Hamas and doctors at Al-Shifa deny Israeli allegations of Hamas fighters using the hospital as a base. Here is what the Geneva Conventions…
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Israel Blocks Some Palestinian Americans From Entering From West Bank
[ad_1] Israel is preventing some Palestinian Americans from entering the country from the West Bank, an apparent violation of a recent agreement in which citizens from the United States and Israel can travel to the other nation without a visa. The Homeland Security and State Departments, which manage the program, said American officials were trying to resolve the issue. “U.S.…
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