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Palestinian killed in Israeli air raid in Gaza
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Israel deals 'hardest blow' to Hamas since 2014 Gaza war
Israel has carried out its biggest attack against Hamas militant targets in Gaza since the war in 2014, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says.
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Israel Patriot missile intercepts unarmed drone from Syria: army
Four fighter jets and two helicopters tracked it, the military said.
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Israel closes main Gaza goods crossing in response to arson attacks
Israel has shut the main cargo crossing with the Gaza Strip in retaliation for arson attacks by Palestinians and attempts to infiltrate its territory.
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Iran to boost uranium enrichment if nuclear deal fails
Iran says it has begun work on increasing its uranium enrichment capacity, in case its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers collapses.
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Iran to unleash refugee wave, Netanyahu warns Germany
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Germany's Angela Merkel Monday that Iranian meddling in the Middle East could touch off massive new refugee flows to Europe, as they clashed about the future of the nuclear deal with Tehran.
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Palestinians bury dead after bloodiest Gaza day since 2014
Monday marked the deadliest day in Gaza since a 2014 war there, and was part of a high-stakes campaign by Gaza's Hamas rulers to break a decade-long border blockade.
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Gaza violence: Israel defends actions as 55 Palestinians killed
In the deadliest day of violence in Gaza since the 2014 war, Palestinian officials say Israeli troops have killed 55 people and wounded 2,700.
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US Embassy opening ceremony in Jerusalem as Palestinians killed in protests
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Jerusalem embassy: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner arrive for Monday opening
US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, have arrived in Israel ahead of the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem on Monday.
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Israel retaliates after Iran forces 'shell Golan Heights'
Israel fired dozens of rockets into Syria early on Thursday, hitting a radar installation and an ammunitions dump, Syrian state media reported after Israel's military said Iranian forces in Syria had shelled one of its outposts near the border.
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Iranian MPs set fire to US flag after Donald Trump scrapped the Iran nuclear deal
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Trump says US to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal
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Pakistan interior minister shot, wounded in assassination bid
Pakistan's Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was wounded in an apparent assassination attempt on Sunday, officials said, an incident likely to heighten political tensions ahead of general elections expected in late July.
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US releases Saudi Guantanamo Bay prisoner al-Darbi
A Saudi man held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay who pleaded guilty to war crimes has been transferred back to Saudi Arabia.
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