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Middle East latest: Over a dozen killed in Israeli strikes near one of main Beirut hospitals

Oct. 22, 2024 08:34 AM EDT

Israeli airstrikes in and around Beirut caused significant damage to the country's largest public hospital and killed more than a dozen people, Lebanese health officials said, as Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into central Israel hours before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived...

New campus protest rules spur an outcry from college faculty

Oct. 22, 2024 08:32 AM EDT

Dissent is thriving this fall at American colleges, and not just among student activists. With student protests limited by new restrictions, faculty have taken up the cause. To faculty, new protest rules threaten freedom of speech — and the freedom to think, both central to...

Blinken arrives in Israel as US looks to renew cease-fire efforts after the killing of Hamas leader

Oct. 22, 2024 08:05 AM EDT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday on his 11th visit to the region since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The U.S. hopes to revive cease-fire efforts after the killing of top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, but so far all the warring parties...

Mideast conflict looms over US presidential race as Harris and Trump jostle for an edge

Oct. 22, 2024 00:10 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks out from Election Day, the crisis in the Middle East is looming over the race for the White House, with one candidate struggling to find just the right words to navigate its difficult cross-currents and the other making bold pronouncements that the age-old conflict can...

Israel says more strikes are coming against a Hezbollah-run financial institution

Oct. 21, 2024 21:01 PM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel said late Monday it planned to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution that it targeted the night before and which it says uses customers' deposits to finance attacks against Israel. At least 15 branches of Al-Qard...

Some Jewish voters in presidential swing states reconsider their longtime devotion to Democrats

Oct. 21, 2024 14:56 PM EDT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — For Rona Kaufman, the signs are everywhere that more Jews feel abandoned by the Democratic Party and may vote for Republican Donald Trump. It's in her Facebook feed. It's in the discomfort she observed during a question-and-answer at a recent Democratic Party...

Blinken heads to the Middle East for the 11th time since the Gaza war, but truce prospects uncertain

Oct. 21, 2024 13:03 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading again to the Middle East, making his 11th trip to the region since the war in Gaza erupted last year and as Israel steps up attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The State Department said Blinken would depart Monday...

A drone targets the Israeli prime minister's house during new barrages with Hezbollah

Oct. 19, 2024 22:42 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's government said a drone targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house Saturday, with no casualties, as fighting with Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Gaza -based Hamas showed no pause after the killing of the Hamas mastermind of last year’s Oct. 7 attack. ...

In Israeli footage of the last minutes of Hamas leader's life, some see a symbol of defiance

Oct. 19, 2024 22:39 PM EDT

The world’s final glimpse of Hamas’ leader was rough and raw, showing him wounded and cornered as he sat in a bombed-out Palestinian home and faced down the Israeli drone filming him, hurling a stick at it. For Israel, the scene was one of victory, showing Yahya Sinwar, the...

Israel unearths Hezbollah's web of tunnels in southern Lebanon

Oct. 19, 2024 12:44 PM EDT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli forces have spent much of the past year destroying Hamas’ vast underground network in Gaza. They are now focused on dismantling tunnels and other hideouts belonging to Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. Scarred by Hamas’ deadly raid into...