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Biden Says ‘Real’ Palestinian State Must Come After War
[ad_1] President Biden said on Wednesday that the endpoint of the Israel-Hamas conflict has to be a Palestinian state that is “real,” existing alongside an Israeli one. He added that he and his aides have been negotiating with Arab nations on next steps, but did not give any details. “I can tell you, I don’t think it ultimately ends until…
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Israel Seizes Gaza Hospital That Became Symbol of the War Itself
[ad_1] What Israel finds — or doesn’t — in the hospital could affect international sentiment about the invasion and influence the negotiations taking place on freeing more than 200 hostages being held by Hamas. Eighteen hours after the raid on the hospital began, the Israeli military released photos and video that it said backed its assertions. It distributed images of…
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‘Erase Gaza’: War Unleashes Incendiary Rhetoric in Israel
[ad_1] Shock, grief and pain have cascaded across Israel since Hamas gunmen poured out of Gaza to kill an estimated 1,200 Israeli civilians and soldiers on Oct. 7. So have anger and a thirst for vengeance, which the country’s leaders are verbalizing in language that critics in Israel say often crosses the line into incitement. “We are fighting human animals,…
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Rishi Sunak Plans New Treaty With Rwanda After Supreme Court Ruling
[ad_1] new video loaded: Rishi Sunak Plans New Treaty With Rwanda After Supreme Court Ruling transcript Back transcript Rishi Sunak Plans New Treaty With Rwanda After Supreme Court Ruling Britain’s highest court ruled that a government policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful. Today, the Supreme Court has judged that the Rwanda policy requires a set of changes…
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Seeks to Nullify His Purchase of Toronto House
[ad_1] The six bedroom, 10,000 square-foot house on Lake Ontario that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, a star player with the Oklahoma City Thunder, bought for just over 8.4 million Canadian dollars, or $6.1 million, should have been a dream home. But in May, two days after Mr. Gilgeous-Alexander, 25, moved into the house, near Toronto, with his partner, it became a nightmare,…
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Israel and Hamas Appear to Be Near Hostage Deal, Officials Say
[ad_1] Israel believes that Wednesday’s raid on Al-Shifa Hospital will put pressure on Hamas to finish a deal to trade dozens of Israeli captives for Palestinian prisoners, according to two senior Israeli officials. Negotiations for a deal are underway, with the various players working on a framework of an agreement, according to the two Israeli officials, who are involved in…
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‘Absolute Chaos’: Residents Evacuated From Public Housing Tower in England
[ad_1] Shaban Ali has lived in a public housing tower in Bristol, in southwest England, for seven years. On Tuesday, the plan was to stay in: dinner, a bath and watching “Paddington” with his two young children. Instead, they and other residents of Barton House were ordered to pack a bag and immediately evacuate the building over concerns with the…
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Ski Trial Is Getting the Musical Treatment
[ad_1] It’s not your average Christmas love story. But here goes: “She’s the Goop-founding, door-sliding, Shakespeare-in-loving, consciously-uncoupling Hollywood superstar. He’s a retired optometrist from Utah. In 2016, they went skiing.” That’s how the production company Awkward Productions is introducing its new musical “Gwyneth Goes Skiing,” about Gwyneth Paltrow’s trial over a skiing accident, set to run at the Pleasance Theater…
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‘Woman With the Flower Tattoo’ Is Identified 31 Years After Her Death
[ad_1] A British woman who was killed in Belgium 31 years ago was identified this week thanks to an international campaign that began earlier this year to identify nearly two dozen women who were found dead across Europe, officials said. The case dates to June 1992, when the body of a woman, given the nickname “the woman with the flower…
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Antisemitic and Anti-Muslim Hate Speech Surges Across the Internet
[ad_1] Some of the antisemitic and anti-Islam posts have been shared and liked hundreds of thousands of times, even though they appear to violate the rules of social media platforms, many of which ban hate speech. The content has been most prominent on X, according to the Anti-Defamation League and other researchers. In an analysis by the Anti-Defamation League of…
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