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ISRAEL HAMAS WAR

Protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on July 5 to show solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
WORLD
Jul 16, 2024
Yemen's Houthis target three vessels in Red and Mediterranean seas
The attacks on the vessels — including an oil tanker — were in response to Israel's airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, Houthi spokesman says.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against attempts to change government policy that grants them exemption from military conscription, in Jerusalem on April 11.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 15, 2024
Israeli government votes to extend mandatory military service
Israel's attorney general criticized the move as unconstitutional in the absence of concrete actions to draft ultra-Orthodox Jewish men as well.
Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of an Israeli strike at a camp for displaced Palestinians in the Al-Mawasi district of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 15, 2024
Hamas denies report it’s quitting Gaza cease-fire talks
A member of the Hamas political bureau described Israel’s airstrike over the weekend as an “escalation” engineered to “block the way to reaching an agreement.”
Palestinians look at the debris of destroyed tents and makeshift housing structures on Saturday following an Israeli military strike that killed dozens of people, near the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
WORLD
Jul 14, 2024
Israel launches major attack against a senior Hamas commander
The Gaza Health Ministry said 90 people had been killed in the assault, half of them women and children, and 300 wounded.
A Israeli soldier searches for human remains amid rubble left after the attack by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 in Be'eri, a kibbutz near the border with Gaza, on Nov. 15, 2023.
WORLD
Jul 12, 2024
Israel military 'failed' to protect kibbutz from Oct. 7 Hamas attack
Kibbutz Beeri saw one of the fiercest battles of the Hamas incursion on Oct. 7, with inhabitants saying the army took too long to intervene.
A Palestinian casts his shadow on a damaged wall as he inspects the site of an Israeli strike outside a school sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 11, 2024
Gaza airstrike hits gathering at school soccer match, witnesses say
The Israeli military said the strike, which Palestinian officials said killed at least 29 people, targeted a Hamas fighter who took part in the Oct. 7 raid on Israel.
A woman holds a baby wrapped in a blanket as displaced Palestinians leave an area in east Khan Younis after the Israeli army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city on July 1.
WORLD
Jul 10, 2024
Gaza's pregnant women defy odds to give birth and protect their babies
For new mothers in Gaza, giving birth in a warzone is just the first step on a traumatic journey marked by constant fear and anxiety.
Interceptions of rockets launched from Lebanon to Israel over the border on June 27
WORLD
Jul 10, 2024
Pagers and drones: How Hezbollah aims to counter Israel's surveillance
Stepped-up attacks on Lebanon's southern border in recent weeks have intensified concerns it could spiral into a full-scale war.
University of Texas at Austin Anthropology Professor Craig Campbell leads chants with other university faculty members during a pro-Palestinian protest on the campus in Austin, Texas, on May 5.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 10, 2024
Doxxed, disciplined: U.S. students tally price of Gaza protests
Many protesting students fear they will be penalized academically or professionally as they prepare to enter the workforce or return to classes.
People walk past rubble and damaged buildings in the Tuffah district east of Gaza City on Monday.
WORLD
Jul 9, 2024
Gaza City residents plead: 'Where do we go now?'
The civil defense agency in the Hamas-run territory reported "dozens" of dead and wounded across the city even before the latest evacuation warning.
A sprawling, secretive influence operation is attempting to vilify Qatar, the Gulf state mediating between Israel and Hamas.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 8, 2024
Shadow campaign: Global influence op targets Qatar in wartime
The campaign against Qatar shows the ease with which a person or an entire country can be tarnished in the age of disinformation while masking the ultimate perpetrators.
An Israeli soldier during a ground operations in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday
WORLD / Politics
Jul 8, 2024
Netanyahu says Gaza deal must let Israel resume fighting until war goals met
A plan introduced by U.S. President Joe Biden in May and mediated by Qatar and Egypt, aims to end the war and free around 120 Israeli hostages in Gaza.
International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan speaks during an interview at The Hague, in the Netherlands, in February.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 6, 2024
ICC prosecutor opted for warrants over visit to Gaza
The sudden cancellation of a planned visit to the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and Ramallah has angered Washington and London.
Commercial food trucks are seen near a checkpoint near Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on May 28.
WORLD
Jul 5, 2024
Feeding Gaza: Traders run gauntlet of bullets, bombs and bribes
Getting food to the Gaza Strip's mostly displaced population of 2.3 million has been beset by bureaucracy and violence since Oct. 7.
The sun sets over Gaza on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 5, 2024
Truce talks between Israel and Hamas advance, U.S. official says
The movement was significant enough that Israel is sending a delegation to negotiate in Qatar, the U.S. official said.
Smoke billows during an Israeli bombardment that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiyam on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jul 4, 2024
Iraqi armed groups say ready to fight Israel if Lebanon war breaks out
A field commander of what is known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq said there would be "escalation for escalation" in case of a full-scale war in Lebanon.
A Palestinian man carries a child following an Israeli strike near a U.N.-run school sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jul 4, 2024
Nine in 10 Gaza residents displaced since war began, U.N. says
The head of the United Nations' OCHA agency in the Palestinian territories said that around 1.9 million people are thought to be displaced in Gaza.
Israeli tanks operate near the Israel-Gaza border on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 4, 2024
Gaza cease-fire efforts show signs of revival as Israel pounds enclave
Egypt, Qatar and the United States have been trying for months to secure a truce in Gaza, but their efforts have repeatedly failed.
Palestinians, who fled the eastern part of Khan Younis after they were ordered by the Israeli army to evacuate their neighborhoods, ride on a vehicle loaded with belongings in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 3, 2024
Israel's next headache: Who will run postwar Gaza?
Fearing Hamas, powerful local families in Gaza are refusing to talk to Israel about any postwar plans.
Palestinian lightweight boxer Wassim Abu Sal ahead of a training session at a gym in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on June 22
OLYMPICS / Boxing
Jul 2, 2024
First Palestinian Olympic boxer fights hurdles before history
For Waseem Abu Sal, traveling abroad to train or compete comes with its own difficulties.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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