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Friday, December 1, 2023

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Palestinians evacuate wounded Friday after an Israeli bombardment Rafah, Gaza Strip.

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza resume after weeklong truce with Hamas ends

Israel's war with Hamas resumed in full force Friday, with airstrikes hitting targets in the Gaza Strip minutes after a weeklong truce expired. Black smoke billowed from the besieged territory, and Israel dropped leaflets over Gaza City and southern parts of the enclave, urging civilians to leave their homes to avoid the fighting.
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi is live streamed Friday from another room at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Top world leaders talk of climate crisis at UN summit. They say they must act on fossil fuels, war

International climate talks turned to a power game on Friday as dozens of world leaders took turns bemoaning the pain of an overheating planet, but two of the world's most powerful men -- President Joe Biden of the U.S. and China's President Xi Jinping -- were glaringly absent.
A Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force minesweeper searches Friday in the waters where a U.S. military Osprey aircraft crashed in southwestern Japan. Japan suspended flights by its Osprey aircraft Thursday, officials said, the day after the U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed into the sea during a training mission.

Japan expresses concern about US Osprey aircraft continuing to fly without details of fatal crash

Japan's top government spokesperson expressed concern on Friday that the U.S. military is continuing to fly Osprey aircraft in the country without providing adequate information about a fatal crash this week in southwestern Japan, despite repeated requests that it do so.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, meets with former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 2018 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Official China called Kissinger “an old friend.” A commentator likened him to a giant panda, a goodwill ambassador between two countries that have been more often at odds over the decades than not. Kissinger, who died Wednesday, developed a special relationship with China in the second half of his 100-year-long life.

A secret trip by Henry Kissinger grew into a half-century-long relationship with China

Official China called Henry Kissinger "an old friend." A commentator likened him to a giant panda, a goodwill ambassador between two countries that have been at odds more often than not over the decades.
In this combination of photos, Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom
DeSantis and Newsom lob insults and talk some policy in a faceoff between two White House aspirants
In an alternate reality, the prime-time showdown between California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday could have been a preview of a 2024 general election debate.
Israelis embrace Tuesday next to photos of people killed and taken captive by Hamas militants during their violent rampage through the Nova music festival in southern Israel, which are displayed at the site of the event, as Israeli DJs spun music, to commemorate the Oct. 7 massacre near kibbutz Re’im. Nearly two months after Hamas infiltrated Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostage, dozens are still unaccounted for, their families left living in limbo.
Nearly 2 months into the war, many Israelis have no idea if their relatives are dead or alive
There was no trace of Hanan Yablonka -- not on the 42-year-old Israeli's social media accounts nor on his phone, found in the bullet-riddled car he and four friends tried to flee in after Hamas militants attacked the music festival they were attending in southern Israel.
Associated Press Rep. George Santos, a New York Republican, departs the Capitol in Washington Thursday evening. Santos made it clear on the House floor on Thursday that he will not resign before Friday’s vote on whether he should be expelled.
Rep. George Santos is facing a vote on his expulsion from Congress as lawmakers weigh accusations
Rep. George Santos of New York is facing a critical vote to expel him from the House on Friday as lawmakers weigh whether his actions, fabrications and alleged lawbreaking warrant the chamber's most severe punishment.
People walk through the venue Thursday at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit near the Al Wasl Dome at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Why hold UN climate talks 28 times? Do they even matter?
Ask most people what the annual U.N. climate talks are and the likely answer will be: "Huh?" Ask those who do know and the answer may be: "Why should I care?"
Samuel Schultz talks to reporters at his home in New York. It took eight years and the burgeoning #MeToo movement to spur them to go public and make a police report, and an additional five years for their attackers to plead guilty. Now, as much as Schultz hopes there’s a reckoning coming in gay and queer communities, too, it feels like they are the ones shouldering the blame, not the attackers: for coming forward, for harming the men’s reputations
For a male sexual assault survivor, justice won in court does not equal healing
As many as 95% of male sexual violations go unreported, according to research cited in a review of scientific literature about male victims of sexual assault, published in April in the journal Behavioral Sciences.
An annual report released Friday on capital punishment says more Americans now believe the death penalty is administered unfairly.
Report: Belief death penalty is applied unfairly shows capital punishment's growing isolation in US
More Americans now believe the death penalty, which is undergoing a yearslong decline of use and support, is being administered unfairly, a finding that is adding to its growing isolation in the U.S., according to an annual report on capital punishment.
Jimmy Haslam, CEO of Pilot Flying J and owner of the Cleveland Browns, speaks during a news conference at the company headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway says the billionaire Haslam family tried to bribe at least 15 executives at the Pilot truck stop chain with millions of dollars to inflate the company’s profits this year because that would force Berkshire to pay more for the Haslams’ remaining 20% stake in the company.
Haslam family denies allegation from Warren Buffett's company that it bribed truck stop chain execs
An attorney for the billionaire Haslam family called bribery allegations leveled by Warren Buffett's company a "wild invention.
In this photo provided by the Department of National Defense PAS, ships carrying construction materials are docked at the newly built beach ramp at the Philippine-claimed island of Pag-asa, also known as Thitu, in the disputed South China Sea in 2020. The Philippine coast guard inaugurated a new monitoring base Friday on a remote island occupied by Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea as Manila ramps up efforts to counter China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the strategic waterway.
The Philippines opens a new monitoring base on a remote island in the disputed South China Sea
The Philippines inaugurated a new coast guard monitoring base Friday on an island occupied by Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea and plans to expand joint patrols with the United States and Australia to counter China's "pure bullying" in the strategic waterway, a Philippine security official said.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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