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Al-Jazeera reporter killed during Israeli raid in West Bank
Veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, was wearing a press vest when she was shot dead during an Israeli raid in the West Bank.
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Israel arrests nine for ‘AirDrop’ of crash images aboard departing plane
The incident, on the AndoluJet flight that had been due to take off for Istanbul, create panic aboard the plane. One woman fainted.
- by Jeffrey Heller
Vladimir Putin apologises over Lavrov’s ‘Hitler was Jewish’ remarks, says Israel’s leader
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he accepted an apology from Russian President in a call. The Russian statement made no mention of an apology.
- by Joseph Krauss
Holy City or theme park? Plan for a zip line over Old Jerusalem divides city
Tourists may soon be able to sail over some of the Holy City’s best-known sites but critics say the plans turn history into Disneyland.
- by Isabel Kershner
‘Heinous’: Explosion at Kabul mosque kills worshippers
A powerful explosion has ripped through a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul, killing at least 50 people.
- by Kathy Gannon
Opinion
The Taliban
Meeting the ‘heroes’ who bear cost of West’s failure in Afghanistan
So often the West’s failure in Afghanistan gets discussed in abstract terms; these women’s stories reveal precisely what is at stake.
- by Julie Szego
Dozens killed in mosque bombing in Afghanistan, Taliban says
A bombing at a mosque and religious school in Afghanistan has killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school.
- by Kathy Gannon and Mohammad Shaob Amin
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Afghanistan
Explosion at Afghan mosque adds to toll of a bloody week
Videos shot inside the building showed an amount of carnage that has become all too familiar in Afghanistan over four decades of conflict.
- by Yaqoob Akbary and Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Gaza militants fire rocket into Israel as tensions soar
Israeli fighter jets carried out a series of airstrikes in southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to rockets fired into Israel.
- by Joseph Krauss