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Israeli hostage to UN: We can’t normalize this unprecedented terror
This undated family photo provided by Rachel Gur shows Shoshan Haran and her grandchildren, Naveh Shoham and Yahel Shoham. All three are believed to be hostages in Gaza in the wake of the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Be'eri. (Rachel Gur via AP)
politics
Canada imposes sanctions on four Israeli settlers accused of violence against Palestinians
Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Canada’s foreign affairs minister is embarking on a five-day trip to the Middle East and the Mediterranean where she will focus on peacekeeping and aid. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
analysis
After decades of support, Israel now finds itself with few allies
Tents are set up by displaced Palestinians amid the devastation in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 16, 2024, as the conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas continues. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
Beneath the bloodshed, a new path to Mideast peace emerges
Doug Saunders
international business
Activists disrupt Lloyds Banking Group’s annual shareholder meeting
FILE PHOTO: General view of signage at a branch of Lloyds bank, in London, Britain October 31, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson/File Photo
world
U.S. military says Gaza Strip pier project is completed, aid to soon flow as Israel-Hamas war rages on
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Navy personnel construct a JLOTS, which stands for "Joint Logistics Over-the Shore" temporary pier which will provide a ship-to-shore distribution system to help deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza, in an undated handout picture in the Mediterranean Sea. U.S. Central Command/Handout via REUTERS//File Photo
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Biden administration is moving ahead on new $1-billion arms sale to Israel, congressional aides say
President Joe Biden, right, sitting next to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, left, speaks at the beginning of his meeting with the Combatant Commanders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2024, before hosting them for a dinner. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
canada
Evening Update: As wildfire approaches Fort McMurray, Alberta officials hope cooler temps, winds could push the blaze away
This handout image courtesy of Kosar shows smoke and flames from the fire in Fort McMurray on May 14, 2024 as residents from the area of Abasand Heights evacuate the area. Evacuations have been ordered in oil-producing Fort McMurray, Alberta on May 14. Authorities have been bracing for another possibly devastating wildfire season, after Canada's worst ever last year that saw flames burning from coast to coast and charring more than 15 million hectares (37 million acres) of land. (Photo by KOSAR / @superkosar Twitter account / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / KOSAR " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by KOSAR/@superkosar Twitter account/AFP via Getty Images)
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Netanyahu fends off criticism at home and abroad over lack of post-war plan for Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. GIL COHEN-MAGEN/Pool via REUTERS
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Palestinians across Middle East mark Nakba with eyes on war in Gaza
Protestors carry signs and flags as they march in support of Palestinians in Gaza and to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, in Beirut, Lebanon May 15, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
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India working to repatriate body of UN staffer killed in Gaza
People walk past a mound of trash and destroyed buildings as behind smoke rises during Israeli bombardment in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israelis mark subdued Independence Day under shadow of war in Gaza
Draped in an Israeli flag a kid walks barefoot on the grass during Israel's Independence Day celebrations at a park in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Israelis are marking 76 years since Israel's creation. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg).
opinion
Are the campus protests just noise? A look back at the anti-apartheid movement offers insights
Daniel Manulak
world
Palestinians in Israel demand refugee return on ‘Nakba’ anniversary
Palestinians living in Israel hold Palestinian flags as they take part in the annual Return March to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" of their mass dispossession in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation, near Haifa, in northern Israel, May 14, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah, battles rage in northern Gaza
Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani looks on as he attends a press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during Blinken's week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East, in Doha, Qatar, January 7, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/ File Photo
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Israel pushes deeper into Rafah and battles a regrouping Hamas in northern Gaza
A Palestinian man makes his way as he flees Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza city, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 12, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
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Israel orders new evacuations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah as it prepares to expand operations
People ride on a vehicle loaded with belongings, as Palestinians prepare to evacuate, after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of Rafah, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 11, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
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U.S. says Israel’s use of U.S. arms likely violated international law, but evidence is incomplete
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
world
For many Israelis and Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas are an obstacle to peace
FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speak during an event about the Middle East peace talks in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 1, 2010. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo
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UN agency closes compound in East Jerusalem after arson
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Affairs Director in the West Bank Adam Boulokos visits the agency's headquarters in east Jerusalem where the traces of a fire are visible after "Israeli extremists" reportedly set ablaze the perimeter of the building on May 10, 2024. The attack came after two months of "Israeli extremists staging protests outside the UNRWA compound", agency chief Philippe Lazzarini said on X (formerly Twitter). (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
Hamas is in trouble with Palestinians in Gaza
Hussein Ibish
world
Israel strikes eastern Rafah as ceasefire talks end with no deal
Israeli army main battle tanks and other military vehicles are positioned in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on May 9, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Hamas movement. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
canada
Morning Update: Number of companies listed as Indigenous jumps sharply as Ottawa adopts procurement target
Minister of Indigenous Services Patty Hajdu rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
world
With Gaza’s maternity care in shambles, danger and misery abound for babies, parents and midwives
world
Israel says it reopened a key Gaza crossing after a rocket attack but UN says no aid has entered
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on buildings near the separating wall between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)
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Evening Update: Israel’s Rafah invasion blocks major aid corridor for Gaza, UN says
FILE PHOTO: Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 7, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo
politics
Israel’s military operation in Rafah ‘completely unacceptable,’ Joly says
Palestinians crowd a street as smoke billows nearby from Israeli strikes in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 7, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Gaza’s Rafah crossing closed because of Israeli tanks, border authority says
FILE PHOTO: A convoy of aid trucks drives into Gaza from Rafah crossing, April 9, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in this screen grab taken from video. REUTERS TV/via REUTERS/File Photo
explainer
UN says ‘full-blown famine’ is in northern Gaza. What does that mean?
FILE - Boxes from Jordan wait in an inspection area for trucks carrying humanitarian aid supplies bound for the Gaza Strip, on the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing between southern Israel and Gaza, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. The head of the United Nations World Food Program says northern Gaza has entered “full-blown famine” after nearly seven months of war between Israel and Hamas. But a formal — and highly sensitive — famine declaration faces the complications of politics and of confirming how many people have died. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)
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Israel launches invasion of Rafah after rejecting ceasefire proposal accepted by Hamas
People flee the eastern parts of Rafah, after the Israeli military began evacuating Palestinian civilians ahead of a threatened assault on the southern Gazan city, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, May 6, 2024. REUTERS/Doaa al Baz
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Jordan’s King Abdullah presses Joe Biden to avert Israel offensive in Rafah
US President Joe Biden speaks about the protests over Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza that have roiled US college campuses, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 2, 2024. Biden broke his virtual silence Thursday on the nationwide Gaza campus protests, saying the US was not authoritarian but insisting "order must prevail." The White House remarks comes after hundreds of police cleared a sprawling protest encampment overnight at the University of California, Los Angeles, tearing down barriers and arresting students. (Photo by Drew ANGERER / AFP) (Photo by DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)
energy and resources
Oil climbs as Gaza tensions rise, Saudi Arabia hikes prices
FILE - Pumpjacks operating at the Kern River Oil Field are seen in Bakersfield, Calif., on Jan. 16, 2015. The state of California has filed a lawsuit against some of the world's largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels blamed for climate change-related storms and wildfires that caused billions of dollars in damage. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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Hamas says it agrees to ceasefire proposal in Gaza war
Smoke rises following an Israeli strike after the Israeli military began evacuating Palestinian civilians ahead of a threatened assault on Rafah, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 6, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
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A Holocaust survivor will mark that history differently after the horrors of Oct. 7
Judith Tzamir, a Holocaust survivor from Germany, speaks to a journalist in her family home in Kibbutz Meflasim, southern Israel, Friday, May 3, 2024. On Monday, Tzamir will join 55 other Holocaust survivors from Israel and around the world for a memorial march in Poland, called March of the Living. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Humanitarian aid shipments at risk as talks between Israel, Hamas collapse
A truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip waits as another truck exits a gate, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Erez Crossing in southern Israel, May 5, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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Hamas says latest cease-fire talks have ended. Israel vows military operation in ‘very near future’
A truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip waits as another truck exits a gate, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Erez Crossing in southern Israel, May 5, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen