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Casting Rafah strike as ‘massacre,’ Hamas urges Palestinians to ‘rise up and march’

IDF says it killed Hamas commanders in ‘precise’ action in line with international law * Tlaib: Pro-Palestinian voters will make Biden pay for...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Sovereignty with Chinese Characteristics? Norms in a Changing World Order

The modern state system is understood to be based on the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which is said to have established the primary norms of state...

30

E-International

Merete Looft

Police to indict two daycare teachers on almost 600 charges of abusing babies

Investigative team says it found hundreds of cases of abuse in hours of surveillance footage from recent months in Kiryat Gat facility

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Tlaib claims US voters will make Biden pay for defending ‘genocidal maniac Netanyahu’

‘You are an enabler,’ far-left lawmaker says of president’s backing for arms sales to Israel, opposition to anti-Israel campus encampments...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

Seeking to end silence around sexual violence in war, an MK raises her voice abroad

Feeling she has to ‘shock the world to take notice of what’s happening,’ freshman Yesh Atid lawmaker Shelly Tal Meron is trying to build a...

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The Times of Israel

Sam Sokol

Is a rules-based international order truly possible?

At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, which sought to craft a new world order out of the ruins of World War I, Japan introduced the following clause...

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Al Jazeera

Patrick Gathara

EU-China EV tariffs: German carmakers fear backlash

The EU could soon follow the US and impose duties on imports of Chinese electric vehicles. That's set off alarm bells among German auto CEOs, who...

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Deutsche Welle

Rob Mudge

Man serious injured in exploding minibus, police say incident organized crime attack

Driver of vehicle, 60, suffers 2nd and 3rd degree burns to half his body when bomb goes off inside vehicle driving near the central city of Holon

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Jailed Nukhba terrorists regularly sexually harass female guards, soldier says

A female reserve soldier details lax security at terrorist detention facility and sexual harassment she has experienced

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

China to host Arab leaders this week, with Israeli-Palestinian conflict on agenda

Leaders of Egypt, Bahrain, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates to convene in Beijing for talks on general cooperation, plan to issue ‘common voice’...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

ToI’s Lidor, Channel 12’s Simchayoff receive B’nai B’rith Diaspora coverage awards

Canaan Lidor honored for his reporting on Jewish communities in the Netherlands, Tunisia, US

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The Times of Israel

Charlie Summers

‘A political corpse’: Tuesday primary could mark revival of ailing Labor party

Former Meretz MK Yair Golan is expected to win Labor’s top spot, opening possibility for merger of two leftist parties as Meretz says it’s...

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The Times of Israel

Sam Sokol

EDITORIAL: Israel should obey ICJ order to halt attack on Palestine’s Rafah

The International Court of Justice, the supreme judicial body of the United Nations, on May 24 ordered Israel to immediately halt its military...

20

The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

VOX POPULI: For deaf pupils, sign language is their required mother tongue

Imagine if in Britain, an adult who can only speak basic English got a job as an elementary school homeroom teacher. There would likely be anxiety...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

The ICJ Ruling Against Israel Is a Slap in the Face to Israel's Justice System

If I had been able to advise Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, I would have suggested first...

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Haaretz

Odeh Bisharat

To rescue Korea's declining population

Reversing the decline in population in Korea is going to take radical, even revolutionary steps. I have one to propose. It is that the "gwaoe"...

20

The Korea Times

Mark Peterson

From Snarky to Sublime: A Conversation With a Stranger Made My Day

A Personal Perspective: Chance encounters can be opportunities to deeply connect.

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Psychology Today

Michele Weiner-Davis Lcsw

Can You Regain Lost Talents After Brain Injury?

Personal Perspective: Fictional characters remind, but a facilitator helps.

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Psychology Today

Shireen Jeejeebhoy

Learning about the changing times

I'm just about six years behind most people. For example, I just discovered the book "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling, as well as the informative...

20

The Korea Times

William R. Jones

Maxims for the AI Age

PERUGIA – Debates about technology have increasingly been reduced to stark dichotomies. Artificial intelligence should be curtailed, or it should...

20

Project Syndicate

Reid Hoffman

Government and society are at odds on national security

In recent years, Tokyo has strengthened its military capabilities in response to an unstable regional security environment. Japanese people have...

20

The Japan Times

Sayo Saruta

Royal Noble Consort Huibin Jang: Magic (Part 2)

The silent beauty of Daebinmyo, Jang’s tomb at Seooreung in April 2023, hides an ugly and dark past. Robert Neff Collection In 1694, Huibin Jang...

20

The Korea Times

Robert Neff

OpenAI is making journalism an offer it can’t refuse

Content deals between artificial intelligence companies and top publishers are coming fast and furious. The latest, claimed to be the biggest, was...

10

The Japan Times

Dave Lee

The case for Ukraine’s NATO accession

At the signing ceremony of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949, then-United States President Harry Truman remarked that if this “simple...

20

The Japan Times

Yuriy Gorodnichenko And Ilona Sologoub

Iran’s Succession Crisis Is a Legitimacy Crisis

STANFORD – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19, was an insubstantial man in an insignificant job. Absolute...

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Project Syndicate

Abbas Milani

Taiwan Continues Toward US-Engineered “Ukraine-ization”

The Chinese Island province of Taiwan continues to be targeted by the US and its political proxies through efforts to further consolidate political...

10

New Eastern Outlook

Brian Berletic

The oligarch behind Georgia's pivot to Russia

Bidzina Ivanishvili, an oligarch and Georgia's former prime minister, is thought to have masterminded the "foreign influence" bill, which critics...

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Deutsche Welle

Maria Katamadze

Who is behind Georgia's pivot to Russia?

Bidzina Ivanishvili, an oligarch and Georgia's former prime minister, is thought to have masterminded the "foreign influence" bill, which critics...

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Deutsche Welle

Maria Katamadze

Dominion

For aeons, life has fundamentally reorganised Earth. This process began roughly 2 billion years ago, when a tiny form of microbial algae,...

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Aeon

Hugh Desmond

Police clash with ultra-Orthodox pilgrims at closed-off holy site in Mount Meron

Video shared by police shows worshipers throwing chairs and crates at cops; Border Police officer removed from duty after being filmed throwing...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

‘No rest till Brown divests’: Anti-Israel protesters interrupt university graduation

College president’s speech briefly disrupted by alumni-led protest calling for it to divest from firms contributing to Israel’s war against Hamas

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

A Vision of Zeros

At the end of the 1990s, an official of the Swedish Transport Administration made a revolutionary statement in an interview: Asked to name a goal...

20

Haaretz

Noa Limone

ROK-US alliance and Trump's possible return

Choo Jae-woo The talk of the town in Seoul lingers around Trump's almost derogatory-like contempt for the value of the ROK-U.S. alliance. Should he...

20

The Korea Times

Choo Jae-Woo

The Meeting of China’s and South Korea’s Foreign Ministers — Political Background and Perspective of the China–Japan–South Korea summit

On May 13-14, 2024, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea Cho Tae-yul came with an official visit to China, the first such visit...

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New Eastern Outlook

Vladimir Terehov

Reckoning with a new authoritarian bloc

Joschka Fischer BERLIN – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to China – his first trip abroad since being “re-elected” –...

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The Korea Times

Joschka Fischer

Dosmrtni zapor, 2.

V znanosti o človeku že dlje časa velja, da na njegovo vedenje vplivajo dednost, okolje in lastna aktivnost. Edino, česar ne moremo z...

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Dnevnik

Dragan Petrovec

In Lawmaking, the Details Matter. Taiwan Would be Wise to Remember That

Beijing could be a winner as Taipei rushes to pass new law.

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The Diplomat

Adam King And Daniel Twining

Daily Briefing May 27: Day 234 – Hamas calls to ‘rise up’ after deadly airstrike in Rafah

Editor David Horovitz on the competing narratives after an IDF mission that targeted Hamas commanders – against the backdrop of Friday’s...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

‘No longer justifiable’: Israel faces international condemnation for strike in Rafah

Palestinian Authority, Egypt accuse Israel of deliberately targeting civilians at displaced people camp while Qatar says strike could hinder...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Amnesty urges ICC to probe alleged war crimes in recent Israeli strikes on Gaza

Human rights organization accuses Israel of killing 44 Palestinian civilians, including 32 children, in three airstrikes in April, says no military...

10

The Times of Israel

Agencies

Israel orders Spanish consulate to stop providing services to Palestinians

Foreign Minister Israel Katz says the order is meant to punish Spain for recognizing a Palestinian state, as feud between Jerusalem and Madrid...

10

The Times of Israel

Agencies

IDF top lawyer says ‘very grave’ Rafah incident being investigated

Legal chief says army committed to probe of civilian deaths in airstrike, stresses IDF’s robust legal branch and self-review, pans international...

10

The Times of Israel

Agencies

Egyptian soldier killed in clash with Israeli troops at Rafah Crossing

IDF says it is in touch with Cairo over incident, which both militaries say is under investigation

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets at north after fatal IDF attack in south Lebanon

None hurt in barrages terror group says are in retaliation for Aynata strike that killed terror operative; IDF recently carried out drill...

10

The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Envoy to Ireland, recalled amid Palestinian state row, warns tech industry may suffer

Israeli workers looking to relocate from emerald isle as Dublin recognizes Palestinian state, putting possible dent in countries’ robust IT trade...

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The Times of Israel

Reuters

Irwin Cotler: ICC prosecutor weaponized international law in ‘incomprehensible’ way

Former Canadian justice minister says Karim Khan violating founding principle of ICC charter by ignoring Israeli legal independence, failing to...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

Bank of Israel leaves lending rate at 4.5%, as inflation and war uncertainty ramp up

Central bank has kept the rate steady since cutting it in January; says it expects the budget deficit to widen due to rising war costs

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The Times of Israel

Sharon Wrobel

Perú avanza en la búsqueda de litio

Conocido como el nuevo “oro blanco”, el litio se ha convertido en uno de los minerales más codiciados a nivel mundial, ante su creciente demanda...

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América Economía

América Economía

Papua New Guinea says 2,000 people buried under landslide, requests help

It is unclear how the number was reached after initial estimates said 670 were killed in village of Yambali, with six bodies recovered by Monday...

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The Times of Israel

Rod Mcguirk

Visiting southern Israel, Nikki Haley blames Iran, Russia and China for October 7

Hamas massacre ‘was orchestrated by Iran. It was helped with Russian intelligence. And it was fueled by money from China,’ former American UN...

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The Times of Israel

Sam Sokol

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