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The Latest | Israel must stop Rafah offensive and open border for aid, UN court rules 05/24/2024 08:29pm • The International Court of Justice on Friday ordered Israel to end its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and to open the nearby border crossing for crucial humanitarian aid. The top United Nations court also said Israel must give war crimes investigators access to Gaza. However, France is proud of its secularism. But struggles grow in this approach to faith, school, integration 05/23/2024 08:26am • MARSEILLE, France (AP) ��� Brought into the international spotlight by the ban on hijabs for French athletes at the upcoming Paris Olympics, France���s unique approach to ���la��cit����� ��� loosely translated as ���secularism��� ��� has been increasingly stirring controversy from schools to sports How does this end? With Hamas holding firm and fighting back in Gaza, Israel faces only bad options 05/23/2024 08:10am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Diminished but not deterred, Hamas is still putting up a fight after seven brutal months of war with Israel, regrouping in some of the hardest-hit areas in northern Gaza and resuming rocket attacks into nearby Israeli communities. Israel initially made tactical advances against Ha Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet Monday for their first trilateral talks since 2019 05/23/2024 07:09am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for their first trilateral talks in more than four years to discuss how to revive their cooperation, South Korea���s presidential office said Thursday. After their inaugural stand-alone trilateral summi Texas health department appoints anti-abortion OB-GYN to maternal mortality committee 05/22/2024 08:11pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Texas' health department has appointed an outspoken anti-abortion OB-GYN to a committee that reviews pregnancy-related deaths as doctors have been warning that the state���s restrictive abortion ban puts women���s lives at risk. Dr. Ingrid Skop was among the new appointees to The Latest | In historic move, a Palestinian state recognized by Spain, Ireland and Norway 05/22/2024 05:02pm • Norway, Ireland and Spain said Wednesday they were recognizing a Palestinian state, a move welcomed by Palestinians as an affirmation of their decadeslong quest while Israel recalled its ambassadors to the three countries. Several countries in the European Union indicated in recent weeks they plan Sites with radioactive material more vulnerable as climate change increases wildfire, flood risks 05/22/2024 12:22pm • Climate change increasingly threatens some of the nation's most sensitive sites, including research laboratories, military facilities and power plants with radioactive material. Extreme heat and drought, longer fire seasons with larger, more intense blazes and supercharged rainstorms that can lead t How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war 05/22/2024 03:20am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Chaim Otmazgin had tended to dozens of shot, burned or mutilated bodies before he reached the home that would put him at the center of a global clash. Working in a kibbutz that was ravaged by Hamas��� Oct. 7 attack, Otmazgin ��� a volunteer commander with ZAKA, an Israeli search a Sites with radioactive material more vulnerable as climate change increases wildfire, flood risks 05/22/2024 01:04am • As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation's primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas. When the fires showed no sign of slowing, Pantex Plant officials urgently called on local contractors, who arrived within minutes with The Latest | UN food aid collapses in Rafah as Israeli leaders decry war crime accusations 05/21/2024 10:38pm • The United Nations said Tuesday that it was no longer able to distribute food aid in the southern Gaza city of Rafah due to lack of supplies and insecurity. The humanitarian crisis has escalated over the past two weeks since Israel launched an incursion into Rafah that closed a vital border crossin UN halts all food distribution in Rafah after running out of supplies in the southern Gaza city 05/21/2024 08:38pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� The United Nations suspended food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Tuesday due to a lack of supplies and an untenable security situation caused by Israel���s expanding military operation. The U.N. warned that humanitarian operations across the territory were nearing Delaware lawmakers OK bill enabling board of political appointees to oversee hospital budgets 05/21/2024 06:49pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) ��� The state House on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill aimed at curtailing the increase in health care costs in Delaware by establishing a state board with authority to impose budgets on the state���s largest hospitals. The legislation passed the House on a 24-16 vote with two Adult children of Idaho man charged with killing their mom and two others testify in his defense 05/21/2024 06:46pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� The adult children of an Idaho man accused of killing their mother and his girlfriend's two young kids testified in his defense this week, saying their mother's health was declining before she died. The testimony from Chad Daybell 's children on Monday marked the start of his Over 1 million claims related to toxic exposure granted under new veterans law, Biden announces 05/21/2024 04:19pm • NASHUA, N.H. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden, aiming to highlight his legislative accomplishments this election year, traveled to New Hampshire on Tuesday to discuss how he's helped military veterans get benefits as a result of burn pit or other toxic exposure during their service. ���We can never full Detroit officer placed on administrative duties after telling protester to 'go back to Mexico' 05/21/2024 02:55pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� A Detroit police lieutenant has been placed on administrative duties after a shouting match in which he told a pro-Palestinian protester to ���go back to Mexico.��� The encounter Sunday outside Huntington Place in downtown Detroit where President Joe Biden was giving the keynote dur