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India’s coronavirus crisis spreads to its villages, where health care is hard to find
Rural areas, where over 65 percent of India’s 1.3 billion people live, had been spared in the first wave of the pandemic but are now facing devastating numbers of infections.
WHO chief urges wealthy countries to share doses before vaccinating kids
For months, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and other officials have warned that the vast global gap in vaccine access is not only a “catastrophic moral failure” but a threat to public health.
Israeli forces hit Hamas tunnels in Gaza as all-out war looms; more rockets rain down
The 40-minute midnight assault involved 160 Israeli warplanes and three brigades of ground forces, including tanks, according to a spokesman for the Israeli military.
The Hamas ‘Metro’ tunnel network: Secret, sprawling and in Israeli crosshairs
A ferocious series of strikes on the Gaza Strip, launched by Israel at midnight Thursday, targeted a vast network of underground tunnels used by Palestinian militants, Israeli officials said Friday.
With strikes targeting rockets and tunnels, the Israeli tactic of ‘mowing the grass’ returns to Gaza
Since Hamas took over the Palestinian territory, the Israeli military has focused not on defeating them but undermining them.
In West Bank, deadly clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces open new flash point
At least 11 Palestinians were killed in West Bank protests calling for solidarity with Gaza.
How conflict, blockades and history have shaped the geography of Gaza
With approximately 2.1 million people, Gaza is one of the most densely populated places in the world. That means that even targeted airstrikes have a high likelihood of hitting civilians.
Israel told the media it had ground forces in Gaza. Then it changed the story.
The IDF apologized for what it said was miscommunication, but did not offer a clear explanation of why foreign reporters were given false information.
Leaders turn to coronavirus vaccine incentives — Shake Shack, $1 million prizes and more
State and local leaders around the U.S. are hoping freebies and other incentives can boost vaccination rates as demand for a coronavirus shot slows.
Afghans welcome tenuous cease-fire, but many express frustration that a permanent peace seems out of reach
“It’s not enough,” said a former journalist in Kunduz. “Every Afghan wants an end to violence and a permanent cease-fire."
Hundreds of protesters block immigration van, forcing Scottish officials to release men detained in raid
The mass protest resembled similar actions that took place in the United States during the Donald Trump administration, when community members and activists sought to block ICE from carrying out deportations and raids.
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What Netanyahu and Hamas gain as countless suffer
Amid the chaos and trauma of the resurgent conflict, two long-standing foes see their own political fortunes rise.
Prince Harry talks about mental health, ‘genetic pain’ and living ‘in a zoo’
In a podcast interview, Harry said he wants to avoid passing on his pain to his children.
What’s behind the violence in Israel and Gaza?
Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip ramped up Friday as the threat of all-out war loomed and hundreds of tanks and warplanes pounded the densely populated territory with artillery.
As Arab world rallies around Palestinians and bloodshed mounts, Trump-era peace deals fade from view
Popular anger has badly undermined an assumption at the center of the Abraham Accords: that the Arab world was no longer stirred by Palestinian suffering.
As protesters flee Hong Kong, Taiwan quietly extends a helping hand
Hong Kongers are settling, sometimes uneasily, into a new home that is close in culture, language and geography, yet a world apart in political freedoms and safety.
Next door to hard-hit India, coronavirus cases surge in Nepal
The wave has rapidly overwhelmed hospitals and depleted medical supplies in the Himalayan country of 30 million.
Israeli forces escalate campaign in Gaza with tanks, artillery, planes; Hamas launches rockets
The Israeli military escalated its campaign against the Hamas militant group in Gaza late Thursday as artillery, tanks and war planes combined in a withering assault on the Palestinian enclave.
Arab Israelis are rising up to protest. Here’s what you need to know about their status in the country.
Many of the Arab Israelis taking part in recent mass protests are angered not only by the ongoing airstrikes against Palestinians but also their own sense of being second-class citizens.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a timeline
Decades of conflict, tensions and the occasional hope for peace.
Masks off, Poles cheer reopening of bars and restaurants
Across Poland people are taking off masks and making toasts as restaurants, bars and pubs re-open for the first time in seven months
Israeli strike on Gaza kills 10, unrest spreads to West Bank
An Israeli air raid in Gaza City has killed at least 10 Palestinians, mostly children, in the deadliest single strike since the battle with Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers erupted earlier this week
Ex-Iran parliament speaker registers to run for president
A former speaker of Iran’s parliament has registered to run in the Islamic Republic’s upcoming presidential election
Israeli military accused of using media to trick Hamas
The Israeli military says a misunderstanding caused it to tell some international reporters that it had invaded the Gaza Strip with ground troops
Back-to-back tornadoes kill 10 in China; over 300 injured
Back-to-back tornadoes have killed at least 10 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured
