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Blasts targeting Afghan school in Kabul kills dozens of students
Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens more, mostly female students, officials said, in an attack President Ashraf Ghani blamed on the insurgent Taliban.
- by Reuters
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200 Palestinians, dozens of Israeli police injured in Jerusalem clashes
Anger has swelled over a dispute in an Arab neighbourhood where Palestinians in six households face eviction in favour of Jewish Israelis who claim several properties as theirs.
- by Steve Hendrix
Who is Yair Lapid, Israel’s would-be prime minister?
The former journalist, popular television host and finance minister has been given a chance to oust Benjamin Netanyahu.
- by Isabel Kershner
Lapid asked to form government after time runs out for Netanyahu
Israel’s President has asked Yair Lapid, a centrist politician and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strongest rival, to try to form a new government.
- by Jeffrey Heller
Netanyahu missed midnight deadline to form Israel’s government
After the fourth election in two years, Israel’s Prime Minister could be pushed into opposition for the first time in 12 years.
- by Josef Federman
Court selects two candidates to appear on ballot against Assad
Bashar al-Assad has ruled Syria for 21 years, his father ruled for 30 before him.
- by Kinda Makieh
Iran claims of multibillion-dollar prisoner deal played down by US, Britain
The United States and Iran are in active talks over the release of prisoners, a person familiar with the discussions said as Washington denied a report by Iranian state-run television that deals had been struck.
- by Matthew Lee and Eric Tucker
Children among the dead in Israel festival stampede
At least 10 children and teenagers were among 45 ultra-Orthodox Jews killed in a stampede at a religious festival in northern Israel.
Medics work to identify 45 people killed in Israeli stampede
Witnesses spoke of seeing a “pyramid” of people who were asphyxiated or trampled in a passageway around three metres wide at the crowded event in the Galilee.
- by Rami Amichay, Dan Williams and Ari Rabinovitch
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Israeli religious festival stampede leaves dozens dead
Tens of thousands of people had gathered at the foot of Mount Meron to celebrate Lag B’Omer, a Jewish holiday honouring a 2nd-century sage who is buried there.
- by Dan Williams
Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel’s ‘apartheid’ is a lie: a son of South African Jews responds to Human Rights Watch
I’ve seen Palestinian suffering. I desperately want to help, but Human Rights Watch’s distortions do not assist that cause.
- by Josh Feldman