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☆ A couple got shocked messages from friends asking if they were moving. Nope, a scammer had put their home on Zillow.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In this sluggish real estate market, it might seem like a dream — that is, if you're actually looking to sell. In 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime Complaint Center saw more than 880,000 complaints about internet scams totaling $12.5 billion in losses. AdvertisementReal estate scams are an especially popular internet crime. In Caldwell's case, too, a scammer told prospective buyers to contact "Mandi" in Las Vegas and send $245 to the seller's mother. Advertisement"I'm kind of stuck here," Bertram told the Kansas City Star.

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☆ Growing Wildfire Burns 10,000 Acres and Forces Evacuations Near Los Angeles
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Yan Zhuang | More About Yan Zhuang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A fast-spreading wildfire northwest of Los Angeles has burned more than 10,000 acres and forced the evacuation of about 1,200 people, according to local authorities, fueled by strong winds that are expected to last until Monday. The blaze, named the Post Fire, started at 1:47 p.m. Saturday in Gorman, Calif., near Interstate 5 about 50 miles outside Los Angeles, the authorities said. Within 12 hours, it had spread to over 10,500 acres, according to CalFire, California’s firefighting agency. It was zero percent contained as of Saturday evening, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The authorities evacuated 1,200 people from the Hungry Valley recreation area and closed the nearby Pyramid Lake reservoir, the fire department said on Saturday evening.

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☆ Everyone's talking about running and rucking right now. How to decide which one to add to your fitness routine.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Kim Schewitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewRunning and rucking are hot in the fitness world right now. Running, a mainstay in the fitness world, only continues to grow in popularity. Meanwhile rucking, which involves walking or jogging with a weighted backpack, has become one of the buzziest trends in fitness. urbazon/Getty ImagesCarrying weight is good for bone healthThe biggest difference between rucking and running is the weight-carrying component. Walking with an additional load requires more work from the cardiovascular system and some of your muscles than unloaded walking, Zielinski said.

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☆ What Mitch McConnell's truce with Trump means
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewFormer President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have decided to play nice, again. According to reports at the time and since then, the longest-serving GOP Senate leader came close to voting to convict Trump of inciting the violence. Now, the longest-serving Senate leader in history, McConnell has said he will step down from the role after the election. AdvertisementAmid his pique, Trump pushed Sen. Rick Scott of Florida to challenge McConnell for the right to lead Senate Republicans. "Well, as the Republican leader of the Senate, it should not be a front-page headline that I will support the Republican nominee for president," McConnell said.

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☆ China says 2 military employees sold 60 pounds of secret documents to a recycling plant, allowing a shopper to bag 4 volumes for under $1
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewChina's State Security Ministry said on Thursday that a retiree had somehow secured four volumes of confidential military documents at a recycling store for just 85 cents. According to the post, Zhang is a former employee of a state-owned enterprise and collects military newspapers and magazines as a hobby. Related storiesThe State Security Ministry said agents rushed to Zhang's home and seized the documents. AdvertisementUpon investigating the scrap store, the state security ministry discovered that Zhang's purchase had been part of eight volumes of 200 secret documents marked for disposal, the post reads. China's State Security Ministry has, in recent months, regularly urged the public to assist in reporting foreign espionage.

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☆ India heat: It’s so hot an insurer is helping thousands of women buy food
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Diksha Madhok | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New Delhi CNN —A one-of-its-kind insurance policy has started making payouts to tens of thousands of women across India to help them cope with the impact of extreme heat. Indian women working in agriculture typically earn about 300 rupees ($3.60) per day. Outdoor work in such extreme heat can lead to chronic rashes, dizziness, burns, infections, and miscarriage, according to Climate Resilience for All. More than 46,000 women were given additional insurance payments, with some receiving up to $19.80 each. Overall payments across the program amounted to over $340,000, Climate Resilience for All said in a statement on Wednesday.

Persons: ”, Kathy Baughman McLeod, “, Arunaben Makwana, SEWA, McLeod Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN, Resilience, India’s, Women’s Association, Swiss, ICICI Lombard, Toiling, United Nations ’ Economic, Social Commission Locations: New Delhi, India, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, South Asia, Africa, Delhi, Asia

☆ A Dark, Eruptive Force Hides Within These Inviting Fables
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Dustin Illingworth | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

GRETEL AND THE GREAT WAR, by Adam Ehrlich SachsInterwar Austria — baroque, violent, demented, doomed — flickers into view in Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s new novel, “Gretel and the Great War.” No staid work of history, this. Sachs draws from the madcap, darkly comic tradition of postmodern European fiction to reimagine the continent’s catastrophic destiny. The novel opens in November 1919, when Gretel, a young mute girl, is found wandering the streets of Vienna. The neurologist who eventually treats her receives a letter from a sanitarium patient claiming to be her father. But the novel’s charming formal sequence conceals an eruptive, ungovernable force.

Persons: GRETEL, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, —, Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s, “ Gretel, Sachs, Gretel, ”, toymaker Organizations: Austria Locations: Vienna

☆ US college instructor David Zabner recounts surviving stabbing in China to Iowa public radio
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Nectar Gan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“Police told us that he was unemployed and down on his luck, and that somebody in our group bumped into the man,” Zabner told Iowa Public Radio News from his hospital room. I’ve been stabbed.’”Zabner was stabbed in the arm 6 inches below his shoulder, and paramedics arrived roughly 20 minutes later, he told Iowa Public Radio News. Cornell College instructor David Zabner survived the stabbing attack in Jilin, China. Zabner joined the program in November 2019 to teach computer science courses at Beihua University, according to Iowa Public Radio News. Zabner’s brother, Iowa state Rep. Adam Zabner, told CNN that his sibling was “doing well” and “has been stitched up and seems to be recovering,” after speaking to him on Tuesday.

Persons: Hong Kong CNN —, David Zabner, “, ”, Cui, ” Zabner, didn’t, I’ve, ’ ” Zabner, Adam Zabner, Zabner, Nicholas Burns, “ I’m Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Cornell College, Police, Ministry, “ Police, Iowa Public Radio News, Cornell, Foreign Ministry, Jilin police, US State Department ., Beihua University, Iowa Public Radio, CNN Locations: Hong Kong, American, China, Jilin, Beishan, Iowa, Jilin Hospital

Biden administration officials have discussed potentially negotiating a unilateral deal with Hamas to secure the release of five Americans being held hostage in Gaza if current cease-fire talks involving Israel fail, according to two current senior U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials. The Biden administration has said it believes Hamas is holding five American hostages who were abducted during the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. The officials did not know what the U.S. might give Hamas in exchange for the release of American hostages. Earlier this week, Israeli officials estimated that some 120 hostages are still being held by Hamas and that 43 of them have died in captivity. Over the weekend, four Israeli hostages kidnapped from the Nova music festival were rescued in an operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces.

Persons: Biden, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Alexander, Sagui Dekel, Chen, Hersh Goldberg, Polin, Omer Neutra, Keith Siegel, Itay Chen, Judy Weinstein, Gad Haggai, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Bill Burns, Brett McGurk Organizations: Hamas, U.S, Qatari interlocutors, White, Nova, Israel Defense Forces, NBC News, National, CIA Locations: Gaza, New York City , New York, Israel, Qatari, U.S

☆ Blinken to travel to Middle East as US ratchets up pressure on ceasefire and hostage proposal
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Jennifer Hansler | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The top US diplomat “will emphasize the importance of Hamas accepting the proposal on the table, which is nearly identical to one Hamas endorsed last month,” Miller said. Hamas has not yet put forward a formal response to the proposal, which was transmitted to Hamas’ political wing by the Qataris last Thursday. “We would hope for a response from Hamas as soon as possible, and we continue to wait,” Miller said at a press briefing Thursday. The top US diplomat has held a slew of calls to regional partners to discuss the proposal. Miller said on Wednesday that the US has seen both Egypt and Qatar “exert significant pressure on Hamas,” but he refused to get into the details of those separate pressure campaigns.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Blinken, Matthew Miller, “, ” Miller, ”, Joe Biden, Bill Burns, Brett McGurk, Biden, Qatar –, –, Miller Organizations: CNN, ”, Hamas, CIA, US, Qatar, United Nations Locations: United, Gaza, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Qatar, Turkey

☆ Biden administration pushing Middle East allies to make threats to Hamas in push for a Gaza ceasefire deal
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Kylie Atwood | Mj Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Still, the Biden administration believes there is an opportunity to close the deal, one US official said. Biden unleashed the pressure campaignThe Biden administration’s intense pressure campaign coincides with Biden’s speech last Friday declaring that Hamas must accept the Israeli proposal on the table. Biden laid out three phases of a deal that he said the Israelis had transmitted to Hamas the night before he spoke. And now, one week after the latest Israeli proposal was transmitted to Hamas, it remains unclear if the pressure campaign will succeed. Miller acknowledged Wednesday that Sinwar might not see it as in his interest to accept the deal on the table.

Persons: CNN —, Biden, Antony Blinken, Brett McGurk, Bill Burns, Joe Biden, “, They’ve, Qatar –, –, Matt Miller, ” Miller, ’ ” Biden, Yahya Sinwar –, Miller, Sinwar Organizations: CNN, State Department, CIA, Biden, Hamas, US, Qatar, State, Democratic National Convention Locations: Gaza, Israel, Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, Cairo

☆ Trump and the N-Word - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Rumors have long circulated that Donald Trump used the N-word while taping “The Apprentice.” Last week one of the show’s producers, his nondisclosure agreement having expired, recounted one instance in extensive detail. We have concrete evidence of Franklin Roosevelt using the N-word in marginalia before his presidency; Harry Truman used the word freely in his letters to his wife. As for Mr. Trump, he has denied that the N-word was even in his vocabulary. For one thing, we have already heard Mr. Trump say a great many racially dismissive things — about Mexican rapists and immigrants from “shithole countries,” among others. “I’m hiring him to run the country.” Anyway, if a videotape did emerge, his supporters would almost inevitably dismiss it as having been generated by A.I.

Persons: Donald Trump, ”, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Trump, “, “ I’m Organizations: Mr, Indianapolis Star, Democratic Locations: “

☆ Gaza ceasefire deal: Hamas and Israel urged to ‘close this deal’ by US and 16 other countries whose citizens were taken hostage
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Mj Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“It is time for the war to end,” the statement, shared with CNN, bluntly says. We call on Hamas to close this agreement, that Israel is ready to move forward with, and begin the process of releasing our citizens,” the statement says. Those 17 countries have citizens whom Hamas took captive at the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. Immediately after Biden detailed the Israeli proposal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that his country would not end the war until Hamas was defeated. Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, convened for the first time last month an in-person meeting of ambassadors and chiefs of mission representing countries whose citizens were taken hostage by Hamas, CNN reported, at a moment when a deal was stalled.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, “, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jake Sullivan, Sullivan, Bill Burns, Brett McGurk Organizations: CNN, Biden, United, Hamas, Qatar –, Senior, CIA, White Locations: United States, Israel, Gaza, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, Washington, Egypt, Qatar

☆ Why Israel-Hezbollah tensions risk boiling over now
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

In Lebanon, Hezbollah is officially considered a “resistance” group tasked with confronting Israel, which Beirut classifies as an enemy state. Since then, the two sides have traded fire sporadically, but tensions boiled over in 2006 when Israel went to war in southern Lebanon after Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. More than 1,000 Lebanese were killed in that conflict, mostly civilians, as well as 49 Israeli civilians and 121 soldiers. The military capability of the Lebanese group has grown since 2006, when it relied largely on inaccurate Soviet-era Katyusha rockets. Hezbollah has fired 35 kilometers into Israel, while Israel has targeted areas of Lebanon more than 120 kilometers north.

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Even as the Biden administration renewed its push for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel threatened “very intense”military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon. “Whoever thinks he can hurt us and we will respond by sitting on our hands is making a big mistake,” he said, according to the Israeli government. “We are prepared for very intense action in the north.”Against the backdrop of escalating tensions on the Israel-Lebanon border, the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, met on Wednesday with top Qatari and Egyptian officials in the latest effort to broker a deal to end the fighting in Gaza and free the hostages taken captive during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7. Mr. Burns met in Doha with the Qatari prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, and the chief of Egypt’s General Intelligence Service, Abbas Kamel, according to an official briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door encounter.

Persons: Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Netanyahu, ”, William J, Burns, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, Abbas Kamel Organizations: Qatari, Egypt’s General Intelligence Service Locations: Gaza, Lebanon, Israel, ”, Doha, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani

☆ I visited a car-free neighborhood in Arizona and was surprised that it felt 15 degrees cooler than the surrounding blocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Joey Hadden | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

In 2022, nearly 400 people in Maricopa County — which includes Phoenix, Tempe, Scottsdale, and other surrounding cities — died from heat-related conditions, according to Maricopa County Public Health. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Enter Culdesac, a car-free community in Tempe that is combatting the area's heat problem with a neighborhood built to cool. A company representative told Business Insider that the 17-acre block houses 200 people, but the company is aiming for 1,000 residents. AdvertisementI recently got a tour of Culdesac, where I anticipated open street paths, shops, and amenities residents could walk to.

Persons: —, Culdesac Organizations: Service, Maricopa County Public Health, Business Locations: Arizona, Maricopa County, Phoenix, Tempe, Scottsdale

☆ Shaving? Wax? At home laser? Experts share the best way to remove your hair for the summer
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —With hotter weather often comes more skin showing—and for many that means increased sense of pressure to get rid of body hair. Laser hair removal treatments are offered both at dermatologists’ offices and places like medical spas. At home devicesYou might have seen advertisements all over your social media pop up for devices marketed to be like at home laser hair removal. “They may get temporary hair removal, but it’s very difficult to get good permanent hair removal,” she said. Waxing, creams and shavingWaxing and shaving are time honored methods of hair removal, Hooper said.

Persons: Deirdre Hooper, Suzanne Kilmer, ” Hooper, Hopper, ” Kilmer, Hooper, “ You’re, Kilmer, “, ”, haven’t Organizations: CNN, Audubon Dermatology, Surgery, Northern, University of California, Davis Medical, IPL –, IPL Locations: New Orleans, Northern California, Davis , California

☆ U.S. Officials Return to Mideast to Push for Cease-Fire
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Adam Rasgon | Julian E. Barnes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Top NewsImage William J. Burns, the director of the C.I.A., was expected to arrive in Doha, Qatar, this week for talks about achieving a cease-fire in Gaza. But statements by Israeli and Hamas officials in recent days suggested that a breakthrough was still elusive. One of the biggest gaps between Israel and Hamas has been over whether a cease-fire deal would lead to a lasting truce. Mr. Biden said Israel’s proposal would ultimately lead to the “cessation of hostilities permanently,” comments that were welcomed by Hamas. Israel, Mr. Hamdan said, was interested in only a temporary cease-fire to free hostages, and would then resume the war.

Persons: William J, Burns, Nathan Posner, Brett McGurk, Biden, Mr, Benjamin Netanyahu, ”, Majed al, Ansari, Osama Hamdan, Hamdan Organizations: Anadolu, Getty, U.S, Qatari Locations: Doha, Qatar, Gaza . Credit, Gaza, Cairo, U.S, Israel

☆ Ukraine claims it hit missile system in Russian territory with Western weapons
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Anneclaire Stapleton | Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Ukrainian forces claimed Monday that they had successfully hit a Russian S-300 missile system using Western-supplied weapons inside Russian territory. On Russian territory. The first days after permission to use Western weapons on enemy territory,” Ukrainian government minister Iryna Vereshchuk posted on Facebook alongside a picture purporting to show the strike. This comes just days after US President Joe Biden gave Ukraine permission to carry out limited strikes using US weapons in Russian territory around Kharkiv, after several European nations had removed restrictions on how the weapons can be used. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has praised Biden’s decision to allow some strikes in Russian territory as a “step forward” that will help his forces defend the embattled Kharkiv region.

Persons: Iryna Vereshchuk, Joe Biden, Vereshchuk, Franz, Stefan Gady, Ukraine “, ” Mathieu Boulegue, Vladimir Putin, Biden, Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky Organizations: CNN, Facebook, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Kharkhiv, Chatham House, Ukrainian Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Kharkiv, Washington, Moscow, Russia, Crimea, United Kingdom, Kherson, France, Germany

☆ The Ukraine war is a huge opportunity for US intel to recruit Russian spies
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Analysis Josh Campbell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Editor’s Note: The CNN Original Series “Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game” examines the tenuous global geopolitics during the Cold War through the lens of two notorious double agents: Oleg Gordievsky and Aldrich Ames. CNN —Russia’s brutal ongoing invasion of Ukraine has provided US intelligence services with a rare opening to recruit Kremlin insiders furious with the handling of the war. “Disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us,” said CIA Director Bill Burns last year during a speech in the United Kingdom. Russian Foreign Ministry building is seen behind a billboard showing Z, a tactical insignia of Russian troops in Ukraine, on October 13, 2022. As the documentary underscores, the espionage lessons of the Cold War could very well determine future global stability.

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☆ Davy and Natalie Lloyd: US brokered gang talks to secure American missionaries’ bodies in Haiti
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Caitlin Stephen Hu | David Culver | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The Toussaint Louverture International Airport, which has reopened after being closed for nearly three months due to gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on May 20. Montis and the Lloyds barricaded themselves inside their residence on the compound, but it was not enough, Lloyd told CNN. US Ambassador to Haiti Dennis Hankins walks after Haiti’s transitional council ceremony, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on April 25, 2024. The situation on the ground in Port-au-Prince remains anarchic,” he warned. But Thursday morning, the bodies of Davy and Natalie Lloyd finally began their long journey home.

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The Hong Kong and Beijing governments have repeatedly denied the national security law is suppressing freedoms, arguing it has ended chaos and “restored stability” to the city. Since the national security law came into effect in 2020, civil groups have disbanded, and independent media outlets have been shut down. They are the first defendants to be acquitted in a national security law trial in Hong Kong. But that strategy is in doubt after another local national security law enacted earlier this year curtailed access to reduced sentences for guilty pleas. “It’s absolutely clear that the national security law reduced the independence and the autonomy of the judiciary.

Persons: Hong Kong’s, Hong, Gwyneth Ho, Leung Kwok, ”, Lawrence Lau, Lee Yu, –, “, Joshua Wong, Benny Tai, Claudia Mo, Eric Lai, John Burns, Hong Kong Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Beijing, British, Hong, Hong Kong’s Legislative, Georgetown Center, Asian Law, Communist Party, city’s, University of Hong Locations: Hong Kong, Hong, Beijing, Hong Kong’s, China, University of Hong Kong

☆ How to Reverse America's Urban Doom Loop: Use Abandoned Steam Pipes
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Instead, it's drawing a feed of blistering, high-pressure, vaporized water from a century-old loop of steam pipes that runs beneath the city's streets. Like dozens of cities, New York has a loop of steam pipes under its streets that could help reverse the urban doom loop. Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesIn July, Vicinity is installing what will be the nation's first zero-carbon urban steam loop. AdvertisementThe most convincing evidence that steam loops make economic sense comes from who's getting into the district-energy game. Meaning: Can we use steam loops to fix the urban doom loop before the climate doom loop dooms us all?

Persons: I've, Nobody, Francisco, Kevin Hagerty, Lindsey Nicholson, Blake Ellis, Burns, McDonnell, Tim Danz, it's, Danz, Hagerty, Decarbonizing, COVID, Costa Samaras, They'll, Adam Rogers Organizations: California, Vicinity Energy, Getty, Cal, Antin Infrastructure Partners, KKR, Scott Institute for Energy, Innovation, Carnegie Mellon, Business Locations: Francisco, California, New York City, Boston, Washington, New York, England, Chicago, Miami, San Diego, Portland, Milwaukee

☆ Israel faces unprecedented challenges as legal and diplomatic pressure mounts
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Abbas Al Lawati | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Never before has the Jewish state come under such intense and sustained international pressure from multiple fronts for its policies towards the Palestinians. But the most significant of those may be the legal and diplomatic action taken against Israel this month. They have accused critics of antisemitism and vowed not to relent in the face of international pressure. Israel and the US maintain that a Palestinian state should only be established through a negotiated settlement. This week, Ireland, Spain and Norway announced plans to formally recognize a Palestinian state, saying they hope the move would prod other European nations to follow suit.

Persons: CNN — It’s, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, Sudan’s Omar Al Bashir, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Libya’s, Israel’s, ” Netanyahu, Yolanda Díaz, Israel, Netanyahu, Bill Burns, Gallant, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Karim Khan, Putin, ”, Ismail Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, Antony Blinken, we’re, Lindsey Graham Organizations: CNN, Criminal Court, International Court of Justice, Hamas, United Nations, UN, Assembly, US, CIA, AFP, Getty, ICJ, ICC, Global Locations: Israel, Gaza, Rafah, Palestinian, Ireland, Spain, Norway, Palestine, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, Germany, Nicaragua, United Kingdom, France

William J. Burns, the C.I.A. This month, frustration boiled over between officials from Hamas and Israel, and the countries mediating — the United States, Qatar and Egypt — put the talks on hold. Israeli officials were upset with what they saw as shifting negotiating stances by Hamas, including the number of hostages to be released in a first phase. Hamas was upset by Israel’s operations in Rafah, the southern Gazan city, which have been progressing since. But core to the dispute were disagreements over how to define a cessation of hostilities between Hamas and Israel, and how different stages of the cease-fire would be put into effect.

Persons: William J, Burns, Egypt — Organizations: U.S Locations: Gaza, Europe, Israel, United States, Qatar, Egypt, Rafah, Gazan

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