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PALESTINIANS

Israeli armored personnel carriers operate near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on May 29.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 7, 2024
Russia and China wrangle with U.S. over U.N. resolution on Gaza
The council's only Arab member, Algeria, also signaled it was not ready to back the text, diplomats said.
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a U.N. school sheltering displaced people in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday.
WORLD
Jun 7, 2024
Israeli strike on U.N. school kills dozens in Gaza
The attack, which killed 40 people according to a Hamas official, took place at a sensitive moment in mediated talks on a cease-fire.
An Israeli soldier stands next to a tank near the Israel-Gaza Border on May 7.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 6, 2024
Hamas leader demands full end to Gaza war be part of cease-fire deal
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's remarks appeared to deliver the group's reply to U.S. President Joe Biden's proposal.
President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Tuesday, en route to Paris for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in France.
WORLD
Jun 5, 2024
Traveling to Europe, Biden will find both solidarity and isolation
Critics of Biden said he has no one to blame for his diplomatic challenges in Europe but himself for an inconsistent approach to international crises.
Demonstrators hold Fatah flags during a protest in support of the people of the Gaza Strip in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Oct. 27, 2023.
WORLD
Jun 5, 2024
Hamas signals post-war ambition in talks with Palestinian rival Fatah
The meetings highlight that the Islamist militant group is likely to retain influence in the Gaza Strip after its war with Israel.
Al Shifa Hospital after Israeli forces withdrew from the hospital and the area around it following a two-week operation, in Gaza City on April 2
WORLD
Jun 5, 2024
Gaza's doctors were building a health care system. Then came war.
Before the war, specialist doctors were part of a strategic effort by Hamas to build a self-sufficient health care system for Gaza.
Lebanon's Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem speaks during an interview in Beirut's suburbs on June 6, 2022.
WORLD
Jun 5, 2024
Israel nears decision on Lebanon border offensive, army chief says
The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel intensifying adds concerns that an even wider confrontation could break out between the heavily armed adversaries.
A child holds a sign during a rally demanding the release of Israeli hostages outside the U.S. consulate in Tel Aviv on Monday.
WORLD
Jun 4, 2024
Back to class — or shelters? Next school year snags Israel's Lebanon strategy
Of 60,000 civilians relocated from northern Israel at the outset of the war, 14,600 are children, scattered in temporary kindergartens and schools.
Sebastien Delogu, deputy for La France Insoumise (LFI) party speaks at a pro-Palestinian protest in central Paris on May 29.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 4, 2024
Gaza war rattles European politics from the left
The rise of radical positions on both the left and right will have widespread affects on the political landscape, observers say.
Israeli soldiers ready a tank near the border with Gaza on Thursday. The Jewish state's victory in the Gaza conflict will depend on addressing Palestinian despair.
COMMENTARY
Jun 4, 2024
Israel will always be held to a different standard
Arrest warrants, campus protests and genocide accusations were not inevitable. These were the direct results of Netanyahu’s choices.
A Palestinian youth moves containers of water past destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on May 28.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 3, 2024
Israel pushes back against Gaza ceasefire Biden has outlined
Hamas said it welcomed any proposal "based on a permanent ceasefire" as well as "a total withdrawal from the Gaza Strip."
People protest in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip at the headquarters of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on Oct 18, 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 3, 2024
ICJ is collateral damage in dysfunctional global system, experts say
That countries comply with its rulings — or not — based on their own double standards is hamstringing the international court adjudicating disputes between nations.
Palestinians walk and inspect the damage after Israeli forces withdrew from Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 1, 2024
Hamas responds positively to Biden's new Gaza truce proposal
"It's time for this war to end and for the day after to begin," said Biden, who is under election-year pressure to stop the conflict, now in its eighth month.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold a rally on London’s Waterloo Bridge on May 11. The current protests have many similarities to the student uprisings of the late 1960s, only the latter envisioned a new political movement to ameliorate the ills of their time.
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2024
Echoes of despair amid global outrage over Gaza conflict
Everyone knows that the situation in Gaza is unacceptable. But a great deal of energy has been devoted to postponing the kind of intervention that the crisis requires.
Commercial food trucks near a checkpoint in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
WORLD
May 31, 2024
Israel reopens Gaza food sales as Rafah raid chokes aid
Army authorities gave Gazan traders the OK to resume purchases from Israeli and Palestinian suppliers this month.
Palestinians search for food among burnt debris in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced people, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
May 30, 2024
Israel sees seven more months of fighting to defeat Hamas
The comments will do little to raise the spirits of mediators like the U.S. and Qatar, who want Israel and Hamas to hammer out a cease-fire deal.
Displaced Palestinians wait to receive United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aid in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 7.
WORLD
May 30, 2024
Gaza aid deliveries dropped by two-thirds since Israel's move into Rafah
A daily average of 58 trucks reached Gaza from May 7 to Tuesday, compared with a daily average of 176 aid trucks from April 1 to May 6, the United Nations said.
Israeli armored personnel carriers (APCs) near Israel's border with Gaza in southern Israel on Wednesday
WORLD
May 30, 2024
Israel seizes Gaza's border with Egypt and continues raids into Rafah
The border with Egypt along the southern edge was the Gaza Strip's only land border that Israel had not directly controlled.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the National Memorial Day Wreath-Laying and Observance Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
May 29, 2024
Biden's blurred red lines under scrutiny after Rafah carnage
Despite global outrage over a recent deadly attack in Rafah, the White House has insisted that it did not believe Israel had launched the major operation.
A man looks on as Palestinians inspect a tent camp damaged in an Israeli strike during an Israeli military operation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
May 29, 2024
U.S. says latest Rafah deaths won't change its Israel policy
Recent deaths in Rafah have tested U.S. President Joe Biden's promise to withhold weapons from Israel if it put displaced persons there at risk.
Japan's elderly population grows to record 36.25 million
The proportion of people aged 65 and over has risen since the 1950s and is expected to hit 34.8% by 2040, when the second baby boomers (born 1971-1974) will join that group.
'Shogun' becomes first non-English-language winner of best drama Emmy
Japanese actress Anna Sawai, winner of the outstanding lead actress in a drama series award for "Shogun," and Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, winner of the outstanding lead actor in a drama series award for the show, pose in the press room during the 76th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Japan jumps to No. 2, from sixth place, in Best Countries index
Pedestrians cross an intersection in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Japan has experienced a postpandemic travel boom, with tourists pouring back in after restrictions closed the country’s borders to travelers.
South Korea is facing deepfake porn crisis
Activists hold up symbolic eye masks during a protest against deepfake porn in Seoul on Aug. 30.
Second assassination attempt on Trump is latest jolt in chaotic campaign
U.S. Secret Service and Homeland Security agents check a former home of a Ryan Routh, a suspect in an alleged assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sunday.
‘Shogun’ and the painstaking art of ‘getting it right’
Hiroyuki Sanada and the cast and crew of "Shogun" accept the award for best drama series at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California.
Japan’s schools battle to keep kids cool, with or without AC
Students sit under a misting system during recess at Hikarigaoka Haru no Kaze Elementary School in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 6.
Chris Broad's new bar puts cocktails first, YouTube second
A self-proclaimed lover of great cocktails, YouTuber Chris Broad says his new Shibuya watering hole is more a place to get yourself a solid drink than it is anything related to his social media career.
In LDP presidential poll, three kingmakers hold all the cards
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo in January as former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (left) looks on.
How China’s dominance of solar and batteries is impacting Japan’s energy transition
Solar panels and wind turbines at a power plant in Hami in China's Xinjiang region. The U.S. and other countries have described China’s actions against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, a key cog in the cleantech supply chain, as a genocidal campaign aimed at erasing an entire culture.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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