From Reuters Daily Briefing |
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By Robert MacMillan, Reuters.com Weekend Editor |
It's time for another edition of the Weekend Briefing. We continue to watch Gaza and are waiting for word of an Israeli ground invasion. And listen to the Saturday edition of our World News podcast on the challenge of freeing the hostages held in the strip. |
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Funeral for Palestinians killed in the Israeli strike that damaged Greek Orthodox Saint Porphyrius Church in Gaza City, REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Masri |
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- Rafah: The first trucks bearing humanitarian aid since Israel launched a siege of the Gaza Strip entered the enclave from Egypt after Israeli bombardment overnight. Egypt is holding a hastily arranged summit in Cairo in response to Israel's actions. The absence of a top U.S. official and some other leaders dampened expectations for what it can achieve. And Hamas freed Americans Judith Tai Raanan, 59, and her daughter Natalie, 17, who were among around 200 people Hamas kidnapped two weeks ago.
- Misery: Israel struck an Orthodox Christian church where people were sheltering, and leveled a district in Zahra in northern Gaza as it prepares for a ground invasion, date and time unknown. "We don't want to receive aid," said Zahra resident Joumana Khreis. "We want the destruction and killing of children in their sleep to stop." In Lebanon, authorities said Israeli gunfire killed a journalist in an area where Israeli forces and Hezbollah were skirmishing.
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- Reverberations: Police saw a leap in the number of offenses in the first few weeks after Hamas' deadly rampage through southern Israel. Emmanuel Macron said Europe is seeing a rise in "Islamist terrorism." Justin Trudeau cited a "scary" rise in antisemitism in Canada. In the U.S., a hotel in Arlington, Virginia, canceled a Muslim civil-rights group's gala after receiving threats of bombs in the parking garage, promises to kill hotel staff and a storming of the property.
- Politics: "He will go, and his entire establishment along with him." That's what one research fellow in Israel said of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces the anger of many citizens who accuse the government of dropping the country's guard and engulfing it in the Gaza war. Israeli police meanwhile are cracking down on Arab citizens expressing solidarity with Gaza.
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- Inquiry: A U.N. probe found additional evidence that Russian forces committed crimes including rape and the deportation of children to Russia. It also found three cases of Ukrainian authorities committing violations of human rights of people they accused of collaboration with the Russians.
- Fighting: Ukrainian forces repelled a new Russian onslaught on the town of Avdiivka and were holding their ground in heavy fighting, President Zelenskiy said. Kyiv has been making slow progress through vast Russian minefields in a counteroffensive that it began in early June, but Russia has hit back hard around Avdiivka and Kupiansk.
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- Kill 'Em All: Fentanyl producers, human traffickers and drug smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border should be killed. Shoplifters? Shot. Drug dealers and rapists? Executed. Learn the reasons behind this campaign season's violent rhetoric.
- Donald Trump, partially gagged: A New York judge fined Donald Trump $5,000 for violating a gag order barring the former president from disparaging court staff during his civil fraud trial, warning that any future transgressions would bring "far more severe" sanctions. Trump also is appealing a gag order – temporarily suspended - in the case accusing him of trying to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
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Before I forget… Argentines vote for president on Sunday. Whoever wins will have to deal with gargantuan debt, runaway inflation, a dearth of U.S. dollar reserves and a currency that nobody trusts. Do you think he was sending a message? Rare video footage of Russian President Vladimir Putin showed him accompanied by officers carrying the briefcase that can be used to order a nuclear strike. He was on his way to another meeting after holding talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Three-time loser: Jim Jordan failed for the third and final time to get enough votes to take over as U.S. House speaker. That means President Biden's aid bill for Ukraine and Israel is going nowhere for now. Canada is suspending in-person operations at consulates in several Indian cities in a diplomatic dispute over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia. It also withdrew 41 diplomats from India. A dollar for your thoughts: X, formerly known as Twitter, will test a new subscription model: a buck a year for basic features. |
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