Colleges around the U.S. implored pro-Palestinian student protesters to clear out tent encampments with rising levels of urgency Monday.
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A Michigan mayor at the center of the Gaza storm
He has become a prominent voice for Arab American and Muslim voters, not just in Dearborn but across the country, who say that Biden has betrayed and dehumanized them.
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Biden and Netanyahu speak as pressure grows on Israel over Rafah invasion and cease-fire talks
An Israeli delegation is expected in Egypt in the coming days to discuss the latest proposals in negotiations.
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Key mediator Qatar urges Israel and Hamas to do more to reach a cease-fire deal
Qatar, which hosts Hamas headquarters in Doha, has been a key intermediary and was instrumental, along with the U.S. and Egypt, in helping negotiate a brief halt to the fighting in November.
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Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests at White House correspondents’ dinner shadowed by war in Gaza
An evening normally devoted to presidents, journalists and comedians taking outrageous pokes at scandals and each other often seemed this year to illustrate the difficulty of putting aside the election and the troubles in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity
Early Saturday, police in riot gear cleared an encampment on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston while several dozen students shouted and booed at them from a distance, but the scene was otherwise not confrontational.
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim downing U.S. Reaper drone, release footage showing wreckage of aircraft
The Houthis said they shot down the Predator with a surface-to-air missile, part of a renewed series of assaults this week by the rebels after a relative lull in their pressure campaign over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas reviewing Israeli proposal for cease-fire in Gaza, as possible Rafah offensive looms
It was not immediately clear whether Israel’s latest response to Hamas on a cease-fire was directly related to Friday’s visit to Tel Aviv by Egyptian mediators.
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‘We will not be leaving’: UNC students camp out to protest Israel-Hamas war
More than a dozen tents and more than 100 people filled the middle of Polk Place, the central quad on the main part of campus. The tents were decorated with signs reading ‘Gaza solidarity encampment’ and ‘free Palestine,’ among other sayings.
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Students at prestigious Paris university occupy campus building in pro-Palestinian protest
The protest kicked off a day of drama at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po.