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Today in History: March 26, Beethoven dies at age 56

Mar. 26, 2023 00:03 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Sunday, March 26, the 85th day of 2023. There are 280 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 26, 2010, the U.S. and Russia sealed the first major nuclear weapons treaty in nearly two decades, agreeing...

Israel: 2 soldiers wounded in West Bank drive-by shooting

Mar. 25, 2023 17:31 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said two soldiers were wounded, one severely, Saturday evening in a drive-by shooting in the occupied West Bank, the latest in months-long violence between Israel and the Palestinians. The attack was the third to take place in the Palestinian...

Watchdog: Israel promotes bids for 1,000 settlement homes

Mar. 24, 2023 16:44 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government authorized construction bids for over a thousand new homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, a watchdog group reported Friday, despite an Israeli pledge to halt settlement...

Palestinian killed in Israeli military raid in West Bank

Mar. 23, 2023 07:18 AM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian militant during a raid in the northern West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian health officials said, the latest escalation of violence in what has been the deadliest start of a year for Palestinians in the occupied territory in more than...

Palestinians and Israelis clash at UN over Netanyahu actions

Mar. 22, 2023 20:31 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians and Israel clashed over the future intentions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far right-wing government at a U.N. Security Council meeting Wednesday, with the Palestinian U.N. ambassador pointing to an Israeli minister’s statement “denying our...

Bipartisan support emerges for Senate railroad safety bill

Mar. 22, 2023 18:11 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan consensus that Congress should act to toughen regulations on railroads emerged Wednesday as senators heard fresh testimony on the fiery hazardous train derailment last month on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Both Republicans and Democrats on the Senate...

Israeli army admits to covert influence campaign in Gaza war

Mar. 22, 2023 13:32 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Days into Israel’s devastating war with Gaza militants in 2021, the Israeli army began deploying keyboard warriors to a second front: a covert social media operation to praise the military’s bombing campaign in the coastal enclave. The Israeli military...

Georgia bill to define antisemitism stalls in wording fight

Mar. 21, 2023 15:34 PM EDT

A bill that would formally define antisemitism in Georgia law has stalled after an unfriendly amendment in a Senate committee altered the measure in ways its sponsors disagree with, possibly ending the legislation's prospects in the 2023 legislative session. The sponsors of House...

Top Israeli minister: 'No such thing' as Palestinian people

Mar. 21, 2023 01:38 AM EDT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A firebrand Israeli minister claimed there’s “no such thing” as a Palestinian people as Israel's new coalition government, its most hard-line ever, plowed ahead on Monday with a part of its plan to overhaul the judiciary. Prime Minister Benjamin...

Dozens in Indonesia protest Israel's presence at U-20 Cup

Mar. 20, 2023 05:55 AM EDT

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Dozens of conservative Muslims marched in Indonesia's capital on Monday to protests Israel's first-ever participation in the FIFA World Cup Under-20 in Indonesia. The world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation is hosting the U-20 World Cup from May 20...