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IDF announces expanded ground operation in Gaza, amid communications blackout in the enclave
Israeli airstrikes rocked Gaza during a night of heavy bombardment after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Friday it is...
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‘You get home and then start crying’: Israel’s body collectors encounter horrors beyond their worst nightmares
Editor’s Note: The following story includes graphic material. Audience discretion is advised. Yanir Ishay has thrown away three boxes of...
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Israeli ground forces are inside Gaza as Palestinians take stock after intense overnight bombardment
Israeli ground forces are inside Gaza having entered the enclave overnight, as Palestinians experienced what they have described as the...
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Iranian teen Armita Geravand dies following alleged assault by morality police
A teenage Iranian girl who fell into a coma after she was allegedly assaulted by the country’s morality police for...
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‘Everything is destroyed’: Civilians trickle out of Avdiivka as Russian assault leaves Ukrainian town in ruins
A Ukrainian police officer inspects a half-destroyed building when, suddenly, he rushes to the ground, ducking for cover. There’s little...
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How US gun culture stacks up with the world
Lewiston. Monterey Park. Orlando. Las Vegas. Newtown. Parkland. San Bernardino. Uvalde. Nashville. Louisville. Ubiquitous gun violence in the United States...
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Israel vows more raids in Gaza as calls for ceasefire divide the United Nations
Israel’s military conducted a “targeted raid” overnight in northern Gaza and vowed on Thursday to continue ground raids in the...
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‘Reminders everywhere’: Halloween crush haunts survivors one year after Itaewon crowd disaster
Hye Minyi can still vividly recall what happened in Itaewon, South Korea, on the night of October 29, 2022. That...
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She fled the Israeli army as a young woman. Now in her 90s, she is running again
Souad Al-Alem was one of the roughly 10,000 people forced to flee the Palestinian town of al-Majdal. It was 1948,...
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South Korean court upholds ban on gay sex in military, in setback for LGBTQ community
South Korea’s Constitutional Court has upheld a law banning same-sex relations in the military, citing a threat to combat-readiness, in...
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