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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. speaks at South Lake High School in St. Clair Shores, Mich., Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. Mills files articles of impeachment, citing Biden's pledge to withhold weapons from Israel
U.S. Rep. Cory Mills of Florida has filed an article of impeachment citing President Joe Biden's threat of withholding arms from Israel if it launches an attack on Rafah,... (photo: AP / Paul Sancya) TCPalm
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FILE - Displaced Palestinians arrive in central Gaza after fleeing from the southern Gaza city of Rafah in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Palestinians on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel. Its an event that is at the core of their national struggle, but in many ways pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza. Israeli tanks push into Gaza’s Rafah, as displaced civilians flee again
Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah, reaching some residential districts on Tuesday, stepping up an offensive in the southern border city where more than a mil... (photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana, File) CyprusMail
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South Texas Border - US Customs and Border Protection provide assistance to unaccompanied migrant alien children Number of internally displaced people hit new record in 2023: Report
The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) around the globe hit a record 75.9 million in 2023, an NGO monitor has found. | The Internal Displacement Monitoring Cent... (photo: US CBP/Eddie Perez) Al Jazeera
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget A. Brink after arriving by train at Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi station May 14, 2024, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Blinken in Ukraine to assure US support amid new Russian offensive
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday in an unannounced diplomatic mission to reassure Ukraine that it has American support as it struggles to... (photo: Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP / AFP or licensors) Naharnet
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A Palestinian woman sits in front of her makeshift tent with her grandchildren after been displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip at a camp in Deir al Balah, Monday, May 13, 2024. Palestinians on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel. It's an event that is at the core of their national struggle, but in many ways pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza. ( Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators participate in a protest ahead of Nakba Day in New York City. AFP | Palestinians on Wednesday will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsio... (photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana) Gulf Today
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Locals take a break as they clean the rubble of burnt-out houses after forest fires reached their neighborhood in Vina del Mar, Chile, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. The case for optimism
We are living in an era of anxiety – or as Jonathan Haidt, the US social psychologist calls it in his latest book, a “generation of anxiety”. From the global financ... (photo: AP / Cristobal Basaure) New Statesman
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General Assembly Adopts Resolution Determining Palestine Qualified for UN Membership Yet another UN resolution for the state of Palestine
The United Nations General Assembly passed the resolution moved by the UAE last Friday to recognise a Palestinian state. However, if a country is to be recognized by the ... (photo: UN / Manuel Elas) Madhyamam
Israel   Palestine   Photos   United Nations  
A Palestinian woman cries as she sits next to her girl wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip while receiving treatment at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024 ‘We give birth only to lose them’: Injured Palestinian mothers grieve for babies killed in Gaza
Raneem Hijazi remembers how tightly she held her one-year-old son Azzouz before the Israeli airstrike hit. The drone flying over their building in Gaza was getting louder... (photo: AP / Mohammed Dahman) CNN
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Refuel petrol gas station pump Oil prices up over investor profit-taking, supply uncertainties
Oil prices increased on Monday amid moderate investor profit-taking, supply uncertainties from tensions in the Middle East, and the possibility of the OPEC+ group's exten... (photo: Creative Commons) Anadolu Agency
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Palestinians line up for food distribution in Deir al Balah, Gaza, Friday, May 10, 2024. WFP warns of new displacement of Palestinians in Gaza
The World Food Program (WFP) warned that Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip will be forced to flee again in search of shelter, food and water.The United Nations (UN) ... (photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana) Gulf-Times
Gaza War   Humanitarian Aid   Photos   WFP   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Israeli tanks head towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel Israel’s war on Gaza live: Fierce clashes as Israeli troops invade Jabalia
Fierce clashes in Jabalia in north Gaza as Israel sends troops and tanks back in to the area. The ground assault follows a night of intense air raids in the area. At leas... (photo: AP / Ariel Schalit) Al Jazeera
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General Assembly Adopts Resolution Determining Palestine Qualified for UN Membership Israel presses on after UN vote calling for Palestinian membership
In an act seen by many as symbolizing Israel's continued disregard for United Nations resolutions and calls for a cease-fire in Gaza, Gilad Erdan, Israel's ambassador to ... (photo: UN / Manuel Elas) ECNS
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Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk through a makeshift tent camp in Rafah, on the border with Egypt Gaza, Friday, May 10, 2024. ( Israel orders new evacuations in Rafah after UN votes in favor of Palestine's membership
JERUSALEM, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Israel ordered new evacuations on Saturday in Gaza's southern city of Rafah as it prepared to escalate its military operation, a day after t... (photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana) Xinhua
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Israeli soldiers work on armored military vehicles at a staging ground near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. ( US says Israel's use of weapons may have violated international law
The Biden administration has said that Israel's use of US-supplied weapons may have violated international humanitarian law during its military operation in Gaza, in its ... (photo: AP / Tsafrir Abayov) RTE
Gaza War   Human Rights   Israel   Photos   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war  
Palestinians ride on a donkey-drawn carriage next to buildings destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. Heavy fighting in Gaza’s Rafah keeps aid crossings closed, sends 100,000 civilians fleeing
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the outskirts of the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid... (photo: AP / Fatima Shbair) Wtop
Hamas   Israel   Photos   Rafah  
Police push Pro-Palestinian protesters away from a bus carrying arrested protesters at UC San Diego, Monday, May 6, 2024, in San Diego. Police cleared a campus Pro-Palestinian encampment in the early morning Monday. Police disband pro-Palestinian student encampments across the US
Police moved in to disband several pro-Palestinian student encampments on US campuses on Friday morning as the foment over protests against academic ties with Israel over... (photo: AP / Denis Poroy) AOL
Gaza War   Israeli-Palestinian Conflict   Palestinian Protests   Photos   Wikipedia: IsraelHamas war protests  
FILE - President Joe Biden is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport, on Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. No more bear hugs: Biden gives up on Netanyahu embrace
Days after the October 7 attack, Joe Biden walked onto the tarmac in Tel Aviv and offered a warm bear hug to Benjamin Netanyahu, a sign both of solid support for Israel a... (photo: AP / Evan Vucci) Raw Story
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Security Council Meets on Admission of New Members UN General Assembly set to back Palestinian bid for membership
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday is set to back a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognizing it as qualified to join and sending the applica... (photo: UN / Mark Garten) Philenews
Israel   Palestinians   Photos   United Nations  
Eden Golan of Israel performs the song Hurricane during the second semi-final at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, Thursday, May 9, 2024. Eurovision explained, from ABBA to Zorra, as the Israel-Hamas war overshadows the song contest
Scores of musicians, hundreds of journalists and thousands of music fans have gathered in Malmo, Sweden, where the Eurovision Song Contest is building towards Saturday... (photo: AP / Martin Meissner) Ekathimerini
Eurovision   Music   Photos   Sweden  
Fuel dispenser at gas station Oil set for weekly gain as demand signs, geopolitics seen as positives
By Katya Golubkova and Sudarshan Varadhan | Oil set for weekly gain as demand signs, geopolitics seen as positives | SINGORE -Oil rose on Friday, set for a weekly gain, a... (photo: Creative Commons) Hindustan Times
Energy   Global Trading   Oil   Photos  
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