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Israeli army tells Palestinians to evacuate parts of Gaza’s Rafah before an expected assault

By SAM MEDNICK, JOSEF FEDERMAN and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army ordered about 100,000 Palestinians on Monday to begin evacuating from the southern city of Rafah in Gaza, signaling that a long-promised ground invasion there could be imminent and further complicating efforts to broker a cease-fire. Israel’s closest allies, including

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Millions of people across Oklahoma, southern Kansas at risk of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms

By ALEXA ST. JOHN, SEAN MURPHY and JIM SALTER Associated Press Forecasters say millions of people in the central United States could see powerful storms Monday including long-track tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and baseball-sized hail. The National Weather Service forecast that much of Oklahoma and parts of Kansas are at the greatest risk of severe weather.

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Russia warns Britain and plans nuclear drills over the West’s possible deepening role in Ukraine

By The Associated Press Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine. After summoning the British ambassador to the Foreign Ministry, Moscow

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Columbia University cancels main commencement after weeks of pro-Palestinian protests

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University canceled its large university-wide commencement ceremony Monday following weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled its campus and others across the U.S., but said students will still be able to celebrate at a series of smaller, school-based ceremonies this week and next. The decision

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They shared a name — but not a future. How two kids fought to escape poverty in Baltimore

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Growing up in the streets of east Baltimore surrounded by poverty and gun violence, two kids named Antonio became fast friends. Both called “Tone,” they were similarly charismatic and ambitious, dreaming of the day they would finally leave behind the struggles that defined their childhoods. One has.

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Activists in Bangladesh march through universities to demand end to Israel-Hamas war

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of activists in Bangladesh backed by the ruling party’s student wing have demonstrated in the nation’s capital and elsewhere to demand an end to the Israel-Hamas war and the establishment of an independent Palestine state. The activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League marched through Dhaka University campus on Monday chanting

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New Liberia forest boss plans to increase exports, denies working with war criminal Charles Taylor

By ED DAVEY Associated Press Liberia, West Africa’s most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the country’s regulator, the Forestry Development Authority, has repeatedly struggled to confront. So it raised eyebrows when Rudolph Merab, whose companies were twice found to have engaged in illegal logging, was recently appointed to lead the

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