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CAIRO: Palestinian group Hamas agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators, but Israel said the terms did not meet its demands and pressed ahead with strikes in Rafah while planning to continue negotiations on a deal. The…
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LOS ANGELES: Police cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Southern California without making arrests on Sunday following turmoil at universities across the United States over Israel’s war in Gaza. The intervention at…
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JERUSALEM: Israel's military on Monday began ordering residents of Rafah to evacuate the southern Gazan city ahead of an ground assault in the Palestinian enclave. Seven months into its offensive against Hamas, Israel has alleged that…
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JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations. Video circulated online showed plainclothes officers…
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PARIS: Sciences Po university has rejected demands by protesters to review its relations with Israeli universities, its interim director Jean Basseres said, prompting some students to say they would start a hunger strike in protest.…
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SYDNEY: Hundreds of people protesting Israel's war in Gaza rallied at one of Australia's top universities on Friday demanding it divest from companies with ties to Israel, in a movement inspired by the student occupations sweeping US…
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JERUSALEM: A senior Palestinian doctor died in an Israeli prison after more than four months of detention, two Palestinian prisoner associations said on Thursday, blaming Israel for his death. The associations said in a joint statement…
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LOS ANGELES: Police forcibly removed scores of defiant pro-Palestinian protesters at several colleges on Thursday, including taking down an encampment at UCLA in a jarring scene that underscored the heightened chaos that has erupted at…
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HYDERABAD: India's food safety regulator said it had ordered nationwide testing and inspections at all companies making spice mixes, widening a crackdown on the sector as global regulators investigate contamination issues with two popular…
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WAKESHUA: Republican United States presidential candidate Donald Trump said it "was a beautiful thing to watch" New York police officers raiding a Columbia University building occupied by pro-Palestinian students, and called on officials to…
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LOS ANGELES: Law enforcement officers massed by the hundreds on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles after darkness fell on Wednesday in preparation to clear out a pro-Palestinian protest camp attacked the night before…
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BOGOTA: Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he will break diplomatic relations with Israel over its actions in Gaza. Petro has already heavily criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and requested to join South Africa's…
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NEW YORK: New York City police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators holed-up in an academic building on Columbia University campus late on Tuesday and removed a protest encampment the Ivy League school had sought to dismantle…
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KUALA LUMPUR:  KFC Malaysia has temporarily closed outlets in the country, citing challenging economic conditions, after local media reported that the closings were because of boycotts over the fast food chain's perceived links to Israel.…
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NEW YORK: Columbia University on Monday began suspending pro-Palestinian student activists who refused to dismantle a protest camp on the New York City campus after the Ivy League school declared a stalemate in talks seeking to end the…
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