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Israeli tanks advanced to the edge of a crowded district in the heart of Rafah on Wednesday during one of the most intense nights of bombardment of the southern Gaza city since Israel launched its offensive there this month. Israel's assault on Rafah on Gaza's southern edge has set hundreds of thousands of people fleeing what had been a refuge for half of the enclave's 2.3 million people. It has also cut off the main access routes for aid into Gaza, drawing international fears of mass casualties and famine.
Japanese prosecutors again sought the death penalty in the retrial on Wednesday of an ex-boxer who was the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014.As of December, there were 107 prisoners on death row in Japan, where the sentences are always carried out by hanging.
The president will be prepping to debate Trump while his son goes on federal trial twice in a matter of weeks.
The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers through a combination of existing programs. The Education Department announced the latest round of cancellation on Wednesday, saying it will erase $7.7 billion in federal student loans. With the latest action, the administration said it has canceled $167 billion in student debt for nearly 5 million Americans through several programs.
Russia's top arms control diplomat on Wednesday dismissed as fake news an assertion by the United States that Russia had launched a weapon into low-Earth orbit that was capable of inspecting and attacking other satellites. The Kremlin has flatly denied assertions by U.S. officials that Moscow is developing a space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapon. The United States pointed a launch earlier this month of a Soyuz rocket from Russia's Plesetsk launch site.
AIPAC, pro-Israel groups winning pmore elections amid fundraising boost.primaries
A common legal agreement keeps people silent when they have a falling out with employers or other organizations. NDAs explained.
Without access to free vaccines, the lowest income Americans may miss out on vaccines against the novel coronavirus and its variants.
Another headache for the gun industry just emerged. Names on thousands of gun traces in Mexico leaked in a massive data hack.
North Korean media have published photographs showing leader Kim Jong Un's portrait hanging prominently next to those of his father and grandfather, in an apparent push to solidify his status as a leader equal to his forebears. The photographs appeared to be the first time state media was publishing his portrait hanging beside those of state founder Kim Il Sung and his late father Kim Jong Il, who ruled the nation until his sudden death in 2011. In other photographs, Kim was shown speaking to aides, including the cabinet premier, in classrooms with the portraits of the trio hanging above the blackboard at the front.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced the cancellation of another $7.7 billion in student debt for 160,000 borrowers, bringing the total number of people to benefit from his debt relief push to 4.75 million, despite Republican opposition. Biden, keen to shore up waning support among young people ahead of the November presidential election, had pledged last year to find other avenues for tackling debt relief after the Supreme Court in June blocked his broader plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt. Biden said beneficiaries of the newest measures are people enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan, who had received an average of over $35,000 in debt cancellation.
When he was a 20-week-old embryo -- before he even had a real name -- Choi Hee-woo became one of the world's youngest-ever plaintiffs by joining a groundbreaking climate lawsuit against South Korea.Choi or "Woodpecker" -- his parents heard the bird's call after learning they were pregnant, Lee said -- is the youngest of the 62 children involved, although most were under five when the suit was first filed in 2022.
Spain, Norway and Ireland have announced plans to formally recognize a Palestinian state, in a move that is likely to bolster the global Palestinian cause but strain relations with Israel.
A senior Philippine navy official on Wednesday accused the Chinese embassy in Manila of recording a phone call without his consent and denied forging a deal with Beijing to deescalate tensions in the South China Sea. Vice Admiral Alberto Carlos told a senate hearing he received a call from China's military attache in Manila in January when he was still commander of the military post overseeing the South China Sea, but said he did not agree to concessions with China. A transcript of the supposed phone conversation was published by local newspaper The Manila Times on May 8 during which it said Carlos had agreed to China's proposal of a "new model".
Ireland, Norway and Spain announced on Wednesday they will formally recognize a Palestinian state in a move that drew swift rebuke from Israel, with its foreign ministry ordering the immediate return of its ambassadors.
As the Manhattan hush money case against Donald Trump nears its conclusion, a new phase of pretrial activity begins Wednesday in the federal classified documents prosecution the former president is facing in Florida.
The fatal helicopter crash will accelerate a transition already underway to a faction that is eager to complete the country’s nuclear weapons program.
French far-right leader Marine le Pen on Wednesday said her party needed to make a "clean break" with the German Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, suggesting the AfD had become too toxic an ally ahead of European elections in June. Speaking in a radio interview, Le Pen accused the AfD of being rudderless and in hock to radical elements within it. "It was urgent to establish a cordon sanitaire," said le Pen on Europe 1 radio.
Asian markets were mixed and European stocks fell Wednesday as investors struggled to revive a recent rally across markets as they turned their focus on the release later in the day of earnings from US tech darling Nvidia.After the previous day's retreat, Asian markets were mixed as a morning rally ran out of steam.
Spain, Ireland and Norway said Wednesday that they would recognize a Palestinian state on May 28, a step toward a long-held Palestinian aspiration that came amid international outrage over the civilian death toll and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip following Israel’s offensive. The triple and almost simultaneous decisions may generate momentum for the recognition of a Palestinian state by other EU countries and could spur further steps at the United Nations, deepening Israel’s isolation. Malta and Slovenia, which also belong to the 27-nation European Union, may follow suit.
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