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The Latest | Israeli drone strike kills 2 in Lebanon after Hezbollah fires at an Israeli convoy

Apr. 26, 2024 16:42 PM EDT

An Israeli drone strike on a car in eastern Lebanon killed two people Friday, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says. The strike came after Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group carried out an attack along the border that killed an Israeli civilian. Hezbollah and Israel have...

Students at prestigious Paris university occupy campus building in pro-Palestinian protest

Apr. 26, 2024 16:17 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States blocked access to a campus building at a prestigious French university Friday, prompting administrators to move all classes online. The pro-Palestinian protest kicked off a day...

US postpones decision on aid to Israeli army battalion accused of abuses against Palestinians

Apr. 26, 2024 15:40 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has determined that an Israeli army battalion committed grave human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza. But he said in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson that he is postponing a decision on blocking...

Private security firm says missile fire seen off the Yemen coast in the Red Sea near crucial strait

Apr. 26, 2024 14:16 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Missiles suspected to have been fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damaged a ship traveling through the Red Sea on Friday, authorities said. The attack follows an uptick in assaults launched by the Houthis in recent days after a relative lull in their monthslong...

Egypt sends delegation to Israel, its latest effort to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas

Apr. 26, 2024 13:10 PM EDT

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt sent a high-level delegation to Israel for talks Friday seeking to push through a cease-fire agreement with Hamas and avert an Israeli offensive on Gaza’s town of Rafah — on the border with Egypt — which it warned could ruin regional stability, officials said. ...

The protests over the Israel-Hamas war put a spotlight on college endowments

Apr. 26, 2024 10:51 AM EDT

“Divest from death” read the bubble letters written in chalk on the sidewalk on Tuesday outside of The New School in New York City. The slogan articulates one of the demands of the antiwar protests on campuses which call on colleges or universities to divest their endowments...

The Latest | Israeli strikes in Rafah kill at least 5 as ship comes under attack in the Gulf of Aden

Apr. 26, 2024 00:10 AM EDT

Palestinian hospital officials said Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip killed at least five people. More than half of the territory’s population of 2.3 million have sought refuge in Rafah, where Israel has conducted near-daily raids as it prepares...

USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow

Apr. 25, 2024 22:58 PM EDT

The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide Thursday as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread. College officials across the U.S. are worried the ongoing...

Trump downplays deadly Charlottesville rally by comparing it to campus protests over Gaza war

Apr. 25, 2024 18:55 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump on Thursday claimed the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was “nothing” compared to ongoing pro-Palestinian campus protests, the latest instance in which he has downplayed a racist incident that was one of the most criticized moments of...

Hamas again raises the possibility of a 2-state compromise. Israel and its allies aren't convinced

Apr. 25, 2024 17:59 PM EDT

The Palestinian militant group Hamas has said for more than 15 years that it could accept a two-state compromise with Israel — at least, a temporary one. But Hamas has also refused to say that it would recognize Israel or renounce its armed fight against it. For Israel and many...