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North Americans celebrate with cheers, music and matrimony
NIAGARA FALLS, April 9 — Throngs of skywatchers across North America gazed upward at a blackened sun in the midday dusk yesterday, celebrating with cheers, music and matrimony the first total solar eclipse to darken the continent in seven years.
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Amnesty International urges Israel to return body of ailing Palestinian who died in custody
JERUSALEM, April 9 — Amnesty International on Monday said Israel must release the body of Palestinian Walid Daqqa, who died a day earlier in Israeli custody after a long battle with cancer. “It is heart-wrenching that Walid Daqqah has died
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UN Security Council refers Palestinian application to become full UN member to committee
NEW YORK, April 9 — The United Nations Security Council president yesterday referred the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the world body to the committee on the admission of new member. Malta’s UN Ambassador Vanessa Frazier
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Biden unveils student debt plans to woo young voters
MADISON, April 9 — US President Joe Biden unveiled fresh plans yesterday to reduce student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans, in bid to win over young voters as he seeks reelection in November. The conservative-dominated US Supreme
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Vatican rejects gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy in new document
VATICAN CITY, April 9 — The Vatican yesterday reaffirmed its opposition to gender-affirming surgery, “gender theory” and surrogate parenthood, drawing criticism from advocates for LGBTQ Catholics. The declaration by the Vatican’s doctrinal office (DDF) comes four months after another document
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Gaza truce talks still deadlocked, Netanyahu sets date for offensive
CAIRO, April 9 — Hamas rejected an Israeli ceasefire proposal made at talks in Cairo, a senior Hamas official said yesterday, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a date was set for an invasion of Rafah, Gaza’s last refuge
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Man charged over scooter rapes in French city
LYON, April 8 — A magistrate yesterday charged a 22-year-old man suspected of sexual attacks on women he followed on an e-scooter in the French city of Grenoble, legal officials said. The suspect “was charged with two rapes, one attempted
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Gazans return to devastated Khan Yunis
KHAN YUNIS, April 8 — “It smells like death,” said Maha Thaer, a mother of four, as she returned to the devastated southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis yesterday, after Israeli troops withdrew. “We don’t have a city anymore —
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Prosecutor wants four held over French schoolboy’s killing
PARIS, April 8 — A French prosecutor yesterday sought a remand in custody for four people held over the killing of a 15-year-old boy that has heightened concern about violence in schools. Five suspects appeared before an investigating judge yesterday
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Israel says readiness advances for ‘war’ on Lebanon border
JERUSALEM, April 8 — The Israeli army yesterday said it had reached “another phase” of preparation for war on its northern border with Lebanon, where it has spent months exchanging fire with Iran-backed Hezbollah. Hezbollah generally targets Israeli positions close
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