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Palestinians clash with Israeli forces following an army raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.

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  • World

Here's what is driving the latest spiral of Israeli-Palestinian violence

A 10-month military crackdown, a half-century occupation, increasing Palestinian militancy and a far-right Israeli government could impact the chances for more violence.

January 28, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Larry Kaplow
Israeli security forces and emergency service personnel gather at a cordoned-off area in Jerusalem's predominantly Arab neighborhood of Silwan, where police say an assailant shot and wounded two people on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

A 13-year-old Palestinian wounded 2 people in an attack in East Jerusalem, police say

The attack on Saturday morning comes just a day after a Palestinian gunman opened fire outside of a synagogue in Jerusalem at the start of the Jewish sabbath, killing seven people.

January 28, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
An American soldier walks ahead of an MKIV British-made tank, circa 1918.

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  • History

Even after a century, tanks still play a major role in war

Germany and the United States have pledged to send tanks to Ukraine for their war efforts. What role could they play in the coming months?

January 28, 2023
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By:
  • Karen Zamora,
  • Matt Ozug,
  • and 1 more
Israeli emergency service personnel and security forces stand near a covered body at the site of a reported attack in Jerusalem on Friday.

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  • World

At least 7 people killed in a Jerusalem synagogue shooting

Israeli police say they shot and killed the gunman. The State Department condemned the "absolutely horrific" attack.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
GPB News NPR

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  • Middle East

Jerusalem synagogue attacked as violence intensifies in Israeli-occupied West Bank

A gunman killed at least 7 people gathering for the sabbath at a synagogue in Jerusalem. This comes as violence intensifies with Israeli forces conducting a campaign of raids in the occupied West Bank

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Fire and smoke rise above buildings in Gaza City as Israel launched airstrikes on the Palestinian enclave.

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  • World

Gaza militants fire rockets toward Israel after Israeli troops killed 9 Palestinians

Militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets toward Israel and Israeli warplanes bombed Hamas sites in Gaza a day after the deadliest Israeli raid in the West Bank in years.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Demonstrators burn flares and smoke bombs outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv on June 5, 2020, during a demonstration calling for the interior minister's resignation over corruption suspicion.

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  • World

Ukraine's fight against corruption isn't new. It's still trying

The Ukrainian government's recent shake-up drew attention to corruption allegations implicating senior officials. Here's a short history of the country's efforts to combat graft.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Julian Hayda
U.S. second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, lays a wreath honoring Holocaust victims at the former Auschwitz site on Friday in Oswiecim, Poland.

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  • Politics

Second gentleman Emhoff visits Auschwitz, part of a push against antisemitism

Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president, is in Poland and Germany to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and address rising antisemitism around the world.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Experts say migration could offset falling birth rates — if politics don't get in the way.

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  • Economy

Migration could prevent a looming population crisis. But there are catches

"Population decline" is a mild way to describe what could be a global demographic crisis, according to experts. But while migration may be the obvious solution, politics could get in the way.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Kai McNamee
Palestinians clash with Israeli forces following an army raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, on Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Palestinians say 9 killed in the West Bank, the deadliest Israeli raid there in years

The Palestinian Authority condemned the raid and said it was cutting off security coordination between Palestinian police and Israeli forces.

January 26, 2023
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
An empty park outside a railway station due to a lockdown in Pyongyang.

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  • World

North Korea is under lockdown to fight the spread of a respiratory disease

Authorities have made no mention of COVID. North Korea claimed victory over the disease by August, but experts remain skeptical of that claim. The lockdown will last from Wednesday until Sunday.

January 26, 2023
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By:
  • Anthony Kuhn
Aboriginal man Josh Sly of the Muggera Dancers prepares a fire for a smoking ceremony at the start of an Invasion Day rally in Sydney, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023.

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  • World

Thousands rally for 'Invasion Day' protests on Australia Day holiday

Australia Day is known to many Indigenous people as Invasion Day and Survival Day, because of the disastrous impacts on First Nations people of British colonists taking their land without a treaty.

January 26, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
U.S. Abrams tanks participate in a live fire demonstration during training exercises in Poland in September 2022. President Biden announced Wednesday that the U.S. will be sending 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. Germany also said it will be sending tanks.

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  • National Security

U.S., Germany pledge tanks to Ukraine, signaling heavy fighting ahead

The U.S. and Germany had resisted sending tanks for months. This marks the latest upgrade in heavy weapons for Ukraine and comes amid growing expectations the fighting will soon escalte.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Students watch security personnel guard the main gate of Jamia Millia Islamia university Wednesday in New Delhi, India. A student group said it planned to screen a banned documentary that examines Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots, prompting dozens of police equipped with tear gas and riot gear to gather outside campus gates.

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  • Asia

India's government scrambles to block a film about Modi's role in anti-Muslim riots

The BBC documentary interviews journalists, activists and victims of the 2002 unrest, which left more than 1,000 people dead. They say the prime minister, then a regional leader, looked the other way.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Pope Francis attends a Mass for the feast of the Epiphany earlier this month in Vatican City.

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  • Religion

Pope Francis says homosexuality is not a crime in a new interview

He stressed that lack of charity with one another is also a sin and added that the Catholic Church should work to put an end to laws in some countries that criminalize homosexuality.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Sylvia Poggioli
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