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May
17
2024
By NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI and EMILY ROSE
Israel moves into north Gaza Hamas stronghold, pounds Rafah without advancing

Israel moves into north Gaza Hamas stronghold, pounds Rafah without advancing

WORLD
ISRAEL'S tanks pushed into the heart of Jabalia in northern Gaza, facing anti-tank rockets and mortar bombs from militants concentrated there, while in the south, its forces pounded Rafah without advancing, Palestinian residents and militants said. The slow progress of Israel's offensive, more than seven months after it was prompted by Hamas' deadly cross-border raid, highlighted the difficulty of achieving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aim of eradicating the militant group. Armed wings of Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad have been able to fight up and down the Gaza Strip, using heavily fortified tunnels to stage attacks in both the north - the…
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May
17
2024
By BERNARD ORR, GUY FAULCONBRIDGE and ANDREW OSBORN
Putin and Xi pledge a new era and condemn the United States

Putin and Xi pledge a new era and condemn the United States

WORLD
CHINA'S Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin pledged a "new era" of a partnership between the two most powerful rivals of the United States which they cast as an aggressive Cold War hegemon that was sowing chaos across the world. Xi greeted Putin on a red carpet outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where they were hailed by marching People's Liberation Army soldiers, a 21-gun salute on Tiananmen Square and children waving the flags of China and Russia. China and Russia declared a "no limits" partnership in February 2022 when Putin visited Beijing just days before he…
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May
17
2024
By JODY GODOY, JACK QUEEN and LUC COHEN
Trump’s lawyers to attack Michael Cohen’s story of hush money scheme

Trump’s lawyers to attack Michael Cohen’s story of hush money scheme

WORLD
DONALD Trump's lawyers resumed their cross-examination of the Republican presidential candidate's ex-fixer Michael Cohen, aiming to undermine his testimony that Trump was intimately involved in buying a porn star's silence over an alleged sexual encounter. Cohen, 57, who served as Trump's personal lawyer for over a decade, testified this week that Trump ordered him to pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 in 2016 to protect Trump's presidential campaign. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denies having a sexual encounter. The New York case, one of four criminal prosecutions he faces, maybe the only one with a jury verdict before his Nov. 5 election rematch with Democratic President Joe…
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May
16
2024
By NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI
Fighting intensifies between Israel and Hamas-led militants in north and south Gaza

Fighting intensifies between Israel and Hamas-led militants in north and south Gaza

WORLD
GUN battles between Israel and militants from Hamas, Islamic Jihad and smaller Palestinian factions intensified overnight into some of the fiercest in months in both northern and southern Gaza, both sides said. Israeli tanks reached densely populated neighbourhoods and narrow alleyways of the militant stronghold of Jabalia in the northeast, facing heavy resistance. Residents said the army destroyed clusters of homes there in areas where they had not invaded before. The armed wing of Hamas ally Islamic Jihad said its militants killed and wounded Israeli foot soldiers during fierce clashes in eastern Jabalia, the biggest of eight refugee camps built…
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May
16
2024
By LUC COHEN and JACK QUEEN
Takeaways from Trump’s estranged lawyer Michael Cohen’s trial testimony

Takeaways from Trump’s estranged lawyer Michael Cohen’s trial testimony

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DONALD Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen testified at the former U.S. president's criminal trial this week, asserting he had Trump's "signoff" to buy a porn star's silence and undergoing a cross-examination by Trump's lawyers. Trump has pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records to cover up Cohen's $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she says they had in 2006. Trump denies an encounter. Defence lawyer Todd Blanche is expected to resume cross-examining Cohen, the star prosecution witness, on Thursday. Here are five milestones from Cohen's testimony so far: * 'Just do it' Cohen testified on Monday…
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May
16
2024
By GABRIEL STARGARDTER and DOMINIQUE VIDALON
Gunmen ambush French prison van to free drug dealer, killing two guards

Gunmen ambush French prison van to free drug dealer, killing two guards

WORLD
GUNMEN wearing balaclavas ambushed a prison van in northern France to free a drug dealer known as "The Fly," killing two prison guards, severely wounding three and triggering a major police manhunt. The brazen, morning attack at a toll booth in Incarville in the Eure region of northern France underlines the growing threat of drug crime across Europe, the world's No.1 cocaine market. It came on the same day that France's Senate released a major report on drug trafficking, warning that the country faces a "tipping point" from rising narco violence that represents "a threat to the fundamental interests of…
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May
15
2024
By NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI
Israeli tanks push into Gaza’s Rafah, as battles rage in the north

Israeli tanks push into Gaza’s Rafah, as battles rage in the north

WORLD
ISRAELI tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah, reaching some residential districts of the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering, raising fears of yet further civilian casualties. Israel's international allies and aid groups have repeatedly warned against a ground incursion into refugee-packed Rafah, where Israel says four Hamas battalions are holed up. The World Court, also known as the International Court of Justice (ICJ), said it would hold hearings on Thursday and Friday to discuss a request by South Africa seeking new emergency measures over the Rafah incursion, which Qatar says has stalled efforts to reach…
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May
15
2024
By JACK QUEEN, LUC COHEN and JOSEPH AX
Trump’s ex-fixer Cohen testifies about secret hush money payment to porn star

Trump’s ex-fixer Cohen testifies about secret hush money payment to porn star

WORLD
DONALD Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen resumed testifying at the Republican presidential candidate's criminal trial, a day after telling jurors that Trump personally authorized him to make a hush money payment to a porn star weeks before the 2016 election. Cohen, once so loyal to Trump that he claimed he would take a bullet for his boss, is the prosecution's star witness. In hours of testimony on Monday, he said Trump ordered him to pay the adult film actress, Stormy Daniels - "Just do it," Cohen remembered Trump saying - to ensure her silence about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter. Cohen's $130,000 payment in…
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May
15
2024
By FRANCOIS MURPHY
Austrian court lets incestuous rapist Fritzl move to regular prison

Austrian court lets incestuous rapist Fritzl move to regular prison

WORLD
AN Austrian court said that the country's most infamous living criminal, incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl, could move to regular prison from a prison psychiatric unit but he was still far from being eligible for release. Fritzl, who has now changed his name, raped his daughter as he held her captive for 24 years in a dungeon he built under his home, fathering her seven children. The case attracted worldwide attention when it came to light in 2008. The 89-year-old has been serving a life sentence in a prison unit for "mentally abnormal" inmates since his conviction in 2009 for incest,…
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May
14
2024
By DAWOUD ABU ALKAS, NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI, AIDAN LEWIS and SALEH SALEM
Gazans strive to study as war shatters education system

Gazans strive to study as war shatters education system

WORLD
PUPILS sitting cross-legged on the sand take classes in a tent near Khan Younis in Gaza. Two sisters connect online to a West Bank school from Cairo. A professor in Germany helps Palestinian students link up with European universities. After watching their schools and universities be closed, damaged or destroyed in more than seven months of war, Gazans sheltering inside and outside the territory are doing what they can to restart some learning. "We are receiving students, and we have a very large number of them still waiting," said Asmaa al-Astal, a volunteer teacher at the tent school near the coast in…
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