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PALESTINIANS

A man carries salvaged items following an Israeli raid in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
WORLD
Jun 30, 2024
No progress in Gaza cease-fire talks with Israel, Hamas official says
The Palestinian group is still ready to "deal positively" with any cease-fire proposal that ends the war, a senior official said.
A girl walks with salvaged wood through rubble at the site of a building that was hit by Israeli bombardment in the Sabra neighborhood in the south of Gaza City on Thursday.
WORLD
Jun 28, 2024
Israel storms area in Gaza City and tells Palestinians to go south
Some men carried injured children, a few bleeding, in their arms as they fled the neighborhood.
An injured man is brought into the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, following the Israeli bombardment of a residential apartment on June 8.
WORLD
Jun 27, 2024
U.S. health workers describe dire conditions at Gaza's hospitals
A lack of supplies meant many had to make agonizing decisions on who would live and who would die.
An anti-government protest in Tel Aviv in January. In a TV interview on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the terms of a U.S.-led cease-fire deal and said he was prepared to open a second front against Hezbollah, in Lebanon.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 25, 2024
Netanyahu's strategy is war, war and more war
The Israeli prime minister gave a rare and revealing interview to a domestic TV channel on the weekend that confirmed that he has a plan for Gaza. And that is war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists that the commitment to the proposed cease-fire and hostage deal does not contradict the position that Israel will not end the war until it eliminates Hamas.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 25, 2024
Netanyahu says he is committed to truce proposal for Gaza Strip
As Israel's military reports advances made against Hamas in southern Gaza's Rafah, the Israeli prime minister reiterates his goal of eliminating the militant group.
Palestinian woman Nisreen holds the hand of her son Majd Salem, a six-month-old malnourished Palestinian baby who weighed 3.5 kilograms when he was born and gained just 300 grams in six months, at Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip on May 9.
WORLD / Society
Jun 25, 2024
Gaza faces the threat of famine: How children starve
More than 1 million of Gaza's inhabitants face the most extreme form of malnutrition — classified by the IPC as "Catastrophe or Famine."
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks at the Herzliya Conference in Herzliya, Israel, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 25, 2024
Risk of all-out Middle East war grows daily, German minister warns
Fears are growing that a war that has already killed tens of thousands in Gaza could spill into neighboring countries.
People run for cover during an Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on Saturday.
WORLD
Jun 24, 2024
Netanyahu says major operations in Gaza will end ‘very soon’
Netanyahu said the next step for the military will be for Israel to redeploy some forces to the north.
Israelis protest for the release of hostages held in Gaza and against the government in Tel Aviv on June 1.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 24, 2024
Israel tech leaders, irked by Netanyahu, eye moves into politics
The war against Hamas is straining Israel's economy, with the central bank projecting costs of around $67 billion through 2025, nearly 15% of the annual GDP.
An Israeli soldier walks next to a fire following attacks from Lebanon, amid ongoing crossborder hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, near Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, on June 14.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 24, 2024
Israel moves in Lebanon could raise risk of broader war: U.S. general
Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not offer a prediction on Israel's next steps.
Palestinians carry the wounded outside the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza City on Sunday.
WORLD
Jun 24, 2024
Israeli airstrike kills eight at Gaza aid center, witnesses say
The Israeli military said Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants had used the site.
A Palestinian boy carries food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of aid supplies in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jun 23, 2024
Food piles up at Gaza crossing as aid agencies say unable to work
Desperation among Gaza's 2.4 million population has increased as fighting rages, sparking warnings from agencies that they are unable to deliver aid.
Palestinians gather amid power cut near houses destroyed during Israel's military offensive in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jun 20, 2024
Anarchy hinders Gaza aid efforts, despite daily combat pause
The Israeli military’s decision to pause fighting for hours each day along the aid route has so far produced scant humanitarian benefit.
Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, shelter at a tent camp in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jun 20, 2024
Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah, forcing people to flee again
Some eight months into the war, there has been no sign of a pause as mediators have failed to persuade Israel and Hamas to agree to a cease-fire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
WORLD / Politics
Jun 19, 2024
Netanyahu tells U.S., ‘Give us the tools, and we’ll finish the job’
The Biden administration has become increasingly critical of Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip to root out Hamas.
A fire blazes on the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border following attacks from Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in northern Israel on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jun 19, 2024
Israel says Lebanon offensive plan 'approved' as tensions surge
Israeli forces and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, have been exchanging fire on a near-daily basis.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 8.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 18, 2024
Israel's Netanyahu disbands war cabinet as tensions rise over Lebanon
There have been weeks of increasing exchanges of fire across the border between Israel and Lebanon.
Expecting that the Palestinian Authority implement reforms, build institutions, reconstruct Gaza and police its people while Israel withholds its main source of finance is unfair and unrealistic.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 17, 2024
Palestine's fiscal demise
The G7 and other powerful countries should help the Palestinian economy tap into international financial assistance like any other developing country.
Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen near houses destroyed in the Israeli military offensive in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 30.
WORLD
Jun 17, 2024
Aid groups welcome pauses in fighting but say Israel must do more to ease hunger
Some aid groups expressed skepticism that the Israeli military’s action would be transformative.
Palestinians hold Eid al-Adha prayers by the ruins of the Al-Rahma mosque destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 17, 2024
Netanyahu denounces tactical pauses in Gaza fighting to allow in aid
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reaction underlined political tensions over the issue of aid coming into Gaza.
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.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
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For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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