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...But the US has a secret weapon called Benjamin Franklin....
...Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had set a date for an assault on Rafah, after far-right allies warned that his premiership would not be tenable if he did not launch an attack on the town in southern Gaza....
...Mark Ravenhill’s two-hander Ben and Imo (at the RSC’s Swan Theatre), about Holst’s collaboration with Benjamin Britten as he struggled to complete his 1953 opera Gloriana, underlines her brilliance and also...
...Right now it’s the talk of the town amongst bankers, because if it lists, it is projected to be the most valuable company to go public in the US since Uber in 2019....
...On Wednesday, 14 Israeli soldiers were injured in a drone attack by the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah on the town of Arab al-Aramsha in northern Israel, according to the country’s military....
...Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed “immediate action” to close Al Jazeera in Israel, after the Israeli parliament passed a law granting him powers to shut down foreign broadcast networks deemed a “security...
...Alireza Rahmati, a deputy to the governor of Sistan-Baluchestan, told state television that there had been “another explosion” near the border town of Saravan, but there were no casualties....
...Benjamin Lee, chair of Sha Tau Kok’s rural committee, connected the town’s opening directly to the idea of a Greater Bay Area, a political project to integrate the cities of southern China into a unified...
...“Who’s the fucking superpower here,” said Bill Clinton, after his first meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996....
...Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Israeli soldiers in besieged Gaza and pledged to push on with the war against Hamas, as pressure on his government increased to recover hostages still held by the militant...
...But US and UN officials have warned that a major offensive in the south Gazan town would be a “disaster”....
...Meanwhile, a Lebanese man accused by the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control of funnelling Iranian money to Hamas was found dead in a town near Beirut....
...The operation in al-Shifa came as Israel was preparing to attack Rafah, a town in southern Gaza that Israel claims is Hamas’s last bastion....
...After an Israeli strike on a humanitarian convoy killed seven aid workers in late March, US President Joe Biden had threatened to make US support for Israel conditional on how Benjamin Netanyahu’s government...
...In the video, a woman identified as Danielle Aloni, a 44-year-old from the town of Yavneh, said Palestinian prisoners should be released by Israel to allow her and the other captives to return home....
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...Israel says it has withdrawn its troops from Khan Younis in southern Gaza in order to prepare for operations in Rafah, Hamas’s last stronghold, despite US warnings that a big ground offensive on the town...
...Launched on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, the assault began in the early hours with thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities....
...The US has publicly opposed Israeli plans for a military operation in Rafah, the southern Gazan town sheltering hundreds of thousands of people who have fled from fighting elsewhere in the enclave....
...“In fact it’s the only game in town, to be very frank, in terms of investment on that size, speed and scale.”...
...The speaker was identified as Danielle Aloni, a 44-year-old woman from the town of Yavneh, who sat alongside two other female captives, Rimon Buchshtab Kirsht and Lena Trupanov....
...It’s Hamas, it’s [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu, it’s partners for peace saying the fighting must now stop,” he said....
...Its involvement in the conflict would threaten to overwhelm Israel’s Iron Dome defence system, which protects its towns and cities....
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