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...Additional reporting by Steff Chávez in Washington...
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...Biden was forced to scrap a planned stop in Jordan to meet Arab leaders on Wednesday as outrage over the hospital attack flared up across Middle Eastern capitals....
...The US has said it was aware of an explosion late on Tuesday in an outdoor area attached to a hospital in Gaza City....
...The US is likely to declassify its intelligence showing Palestinian Islamic Jihad was behind the hospital strike in the next few days, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said....
...The top Democratic and Republican lawmakers on the powerful US Senate intelligence committee have said they are “confident” the deadly attack on a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday was “the result of a failed...
...The US intelligence community estimates the number of casualties in the explosion at a hospital in Gaza is between 100 to 300, a US official said....
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...Washington has conducted a series of strikes in recent weeks in response to attacks on US personnel in Iraq and Syria, which have raised fears of the conflict spreading in the region....
...Tuesday’s press statement was the first detailed communication from the Pentagon about Austin’s hospital treatment, his condition and whether and when he was incapacitated....
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...Israel contends that the hospital sits on top of an underground tunnel network housing Hamas command centres....
...The administration had also made progress with Iran, agreeing a prisoner swap that brought hopes of a further thawing in relations between Tehran and Washington....
...Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in US history who has played a pivotal role in Washington for decades, will step down from his post as the Republican minority leader in November....
...Austin remained in hospital on Monday but was no longer in the ICU. Ryder did not disclose the nature of Austin’s medical procedure....
...Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...Biden had been due to meet with Sisi in Jordan on Wednesday but that meeting was cancelled after a deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza....
...Additional reporting by Heba Saleh in Cairo and Lauren Fedor in Washington...
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