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Dec 8, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Victoria Kim
Australia has imposed a sweeping ban on social media for children under 16. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that it puts Australia at the vanguard of efforts to protect the mental health and well-being of children from detrimental effects of social media, such as online hate or bullying. The law, he has said, puts the onus on social media platforms to take “reasonable steps” to prevent anyone under 16 from having an account.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Liam Stack |Lauren Leatherby |Euan Ward |Victoria Kim
By Liam Stack, Lauren Leatherby, Euan Ward and Victoria KimThe Israeli military issued evacuation warnings Thursday for a further swath of towns and villages in southern Lebanon where its troops are fighting Hezbollah militants, as Lebanese health officials raised the death toll from an Israeli strike near the heart of Beirut to at least nine people.
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May 18, 2024 | 
westhawaiitoday.com | Victoria Kim |Aaron Boxerman
Trucks of humanitarian aid began moving ashore into the Gaza Strip early Friday via a temporary pier built by the U.S. military, the first supplies of aid to be sent into the enclave by sea in two months. But the new shipments of food and other supplies fall far short of what humanitarian groups say is needed to meet the staggering levels of hunger and deprivation in Gaza.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Alan Blinder |Stephanie Saul |Victoria Kim
By Alan Blinder, Stephanie Saul and Victoria KimColumbia University awoke Wednesday to a calendar that laid bare the breadth of its troubles, especially for its president. House Speaker Mike Johnson was expected on campus to visit with Jewish students, after stating in a radio interview that the president, Nemat Shafik, should resign. Shafik herself was preparing to confer with the university senate, which could censure her as soon as Friday.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
afr.com | Victoria Kim |Alan Yuhas
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who met with Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Friday, has said an immediate ceasefire would allow for the release of hostages and a “surge” in humanitarian aid to alleviate the acute suffering among the territory’s 2.2 million civilians.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Victoria Kim |Shashank Bengali
Palestinians mourn relatives killed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Dec. 4, 2023. By Victoria Kim and Shashank BengaliIsraeli troops are fighting in the heart of southern Gaza’s largest city, a military commander announced Tuesday, describing some of the heaviest combat of the two-month war amid growing concerns that there is almost nowhere left for civilians to flee.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
nyti.ms | Michael Crowley |Ben Hubbard |Victoria Kim
Israel’s military said early Friday it was resuming fighting because Hamas had violated the previously agreed-upon truce after a projectile was fired from Gaza in the final minutes of the cease-fire. International mediators said talks were continuing in the hopes of a breakthrough. The deadline for the weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas expired 7 a.m. Friday local time. Diplomatic talks had come down to the wire with indications earlier in the night that the negotiations may have broken down.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
nyti.ms | Chevaz Clarke |Caroline Kim |Victoria Kim |Hiba Yazbek
Israeli soldiers have entered Gaza City, the Israeli military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, and are waging close-quarters combat with Hamas as they push forward with what officials have predicted will be a long and bloody ground invasion. Ground troops “have operated in recent days in Gaza City, surrounding it from several directions,” said Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the Israeli military chief of staff, in a televised statement. He described “face-to-face battles” with Hamas.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
afr.com | Edward Wong |Hiba Yazbek |Victoria Kim
Here is the latest:— The brutality and devastation of the Hamas attack was coming into clearer view in the dozens of towns and a military base targeted: civilians, including children, shot dead in homes, in cars, on streets and in hiding places. Netanyahu said the assailants burned people alive, raped women and beheaded soldiers. Soldiers carry the coffin of Dor Yarhi, who was killed in a battle with Palestinian militants.
