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Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 32, mostly women and children

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 32 people, including over a dozen women and children, local health officials said Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to the United States to m

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Palestinian teenager who died in Israeli prison showed signs of starvation, medical report says

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Starvation was likely the leading cause of death for a Palestinian teenager who died in an Israeli prison , according to an Israeli doctor who observed the autopsy.

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Former German president warns of far right at 80th anniversary of Buchenwald liberation

VIENNA (AP) — Germany marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp on Sunday as one of the country's former presidents warned against “radicalization and a worldwide shift to the right.

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Pope makes surprise appearance at St. Peter’s Square, 2 weeks after leaving hospital

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis made a surprise entrance to St.

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Moroccans protest Israel's offensive in Gaza and take aim at Trump

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Tens of thousands of Moroccans on Sunday protested Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza, putting fury toward U.S. President Donald Trump near the center of their grievances.

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You shouldn't buy a piece of a saint. Catholic Church denounces online sale of Carlo Acutis relics

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church has turned to police in Italy to investigate the online sale of some purported relics of Carlo Acutis , who already has been drawing hundreds of th

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Federal officials are quietly terminating the legal residency of some international college students

WASHINGTON (AP) — A crackdown on foreign students is alarming college leaders, who say the Trump administration is using new tactics and vague justifications to push some students out of the country.

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Disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died at age 94

WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore McCarrick, a once-powerful Catholic cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation determined he had molested adults and children, has died. He was 94.

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Israeli strikes kill at least 17 in Gaza as ground troops enter Palestinian territory's north

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Israeli strikes killed more than a dozen people in the Gaza Strip early Friday, as Israel sent more ground troops into the Palestinian territory to ramp up its offensive against Hamas.

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Israeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 27 people, Palestinian health officials say

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including 27 or more sheltering at a school, according to Palestinian medical authorities, in a stepped-up offensive that Israel’s

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