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Passersby observe the photos of hostages held in the Gaza Strip that are plastered to the walls of a plaza known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, May 17, 2024. The Israeli military said Friday its forces rescued from Gaza the remains of three Israeli hostages taken by militants during the Oct. 7 attack, including 22-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk, 28-year-old Amit Buskila, and 56-year-old Itzhak Gelerenter. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty).

Israeli army finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza killed at Oct. 7 music festival

The Israeli military says its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk.
 
The fence of an Israeli military position is seen damaged after Hezbollah targeted it by rockets, on an occupied hill of Kfar Chouba village, southeast Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on

 
The image provided by U.S, Central Command, shows U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), U.S. Navy sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (U.S. Central Command via AP)

Trucks are rolling across a new US pier into Gaza. But challenges remain to getting enough aid in

 
Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from Detroit volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society at one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals, second from right, poses on May 7, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza, with a Palestinian doctor and two other American doctors volunteering at the European General Hospital where they have been since early May. A group of 35 foreign doctors on a volunteer mission to help at the hospital, including 22 Americans, have been trapped in Gaza by Israel鈥檚 seizure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt.

They were treating waves of wounded in Gaza. Then an Israeli assault trapped the foreign doctors

 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemen鈥檚 Houthi rebels claim shooting down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone as footage shows wreckage

 

Iran arrests 260 people, including 3 European citizens, for spreading 鈥榮atanism and nudity鈥�

Iran鈥檚 state media say police arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism.
 
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

The Latest | Israel finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza, as first aid unloaded by sea

Israeli troops have recovered the bodies of three hostages in the Gaza Strip. The military said Friday the three were killed at a music festival during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, and their bodies were taken into Gaza.
 
Front row from left, South Africa's agents Cornelius Scholtz, Vusimuzi Madonsela and Israel's agents Gilad Naom, Tamar Kaplan Tourgeman and co-agent Avigail Frisch Ben Avraham wait for the start of hearings at the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, May 16, 2024. The U.N.'s top court opened two days of hearings in a case brought by South Africa to see whether Israel needs to take additional measures to alleviate the suffering in war-ravaged Gaza. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Israel insists it is doing all it can to protect civilians in Gaza and denies genocide charges

Israel has strongly denied charges of genocide and has told the United Nations鈥� top court it is doing everything it can to protect the civilian population during its military operation in Gaza.
 
A Syrian protester holds up a placard during a protest against al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group in Binnish town, in Idlib province, Syria, Friday, May 17, 2024. Members of Syria's most powerful insurgent group in the country's rebel-held northwest fired bullets in the air and beat up protesters with clubs Friday injuring some of them as weekslong protests demanding release of detainees and an end to the group's rule intensified. The placard shows drawings of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the late Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Abu Mohammed al-Golani leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, once linked to al-Qaida and the Arabic writing reads: "Assad = Baghdadi = al-Golani. The faces are different but the crime is one." (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Protests against powerful group persist in Syria鈥檚 last major rebel stronghold

Members of Syria鈥檚 most powerful insurgent group in the country鈥檚 rebel-held northwest have fired bullets in the air and beaten up protesters with clubs, injuring some of them.
 
A ship is seen off the coast of Gaza near a U.S.-built floating pier that will be used to facilitate aid deliveries, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

What to know about how much the aid from a US pier project will help Gaza

A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know if the new route will work until a steady stream of deliveries begins reaching starving Palestinians.
 
This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)

Suspected militants bomb a girl鈥檚 school overnight in northwest Pakistan

Police say suspected militants have bombed a girl鈥檚 school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying the structure.
 
This 2021 photo provided by Haim Parag shows David Ben-Avraham at a supermarket in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, where he briefly worked. Ben-Avraham, a Palestinian who was born a Muslim but made the almost unheard-of decision to convert to Judaism years earlier, was fatally shot by an Israeli soldier. (Courtesy of Haim Parag via AP)

A Palestinian converted to Judaism. An Israeli soldier saw him as a threat and opened fire

At first, it seemed like the kind of shooting that has become all too common in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
 
A ship is seen off the coast of Gaza near a U.S.-built floating pier that will be used to facilitate aid deliveries, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The Latest | Israel says it will send more troops to Rafah, as fighting also rages in Gaza鈥檚 north

Israel鈥檚 defense minister says the military will send more troops into Rafah, a city along Gaza鈥檚 southern border with Egypt, as fighting also rages in northern Gaza, where Hamas has regrouped.
 
From left to right, Leo Greenberg, Suzanne Nossel, Eliza Greenberg and David Greenberg attend the PEN America Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP)

PEN America, facing criticism over its response to the Mideast war, gathers for annual gala

PEN America gathered Thursday night for its annual gala, a high-profile event raised even higher because some wondered if it would be held at all.
 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemeni security forces deploy in Aden as anger simmers over lengthy power outages

Yemeni authorities have deployed security forces and armored vehicles across the port city of Aden, in preparation for the latest in a series of protests over hours-long electricity outages caused by a shortage of fuel for power stations.
 
This is a locator map for Saudi Arabia with its capital, Riyadh. (AP Photo)

Independent UN experts say radical Saudi Arabia scholar held for years should be tried or released

A radical Sunni scholar whose criticisms of Saudi Arabia鈥檚 government and the West drew praise from the late al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden should be immediately tried or released from a yearslong arbitrary detention by the kingdom.
 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemen鈥檚 Houthi rebels acknowledge attacking a US destroyer that shot down missile in the Red Sea

Yemen鈥檚 Houthi rebels have claimed targeting a U.S. Navy destroyer and a commercial ship in the Red Sea.
 
Students wave Palestinian flags as they march to show solidarity with Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza and to commemorate the Nakba Day, Arabic for catastrophe, in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Palestinians mark 76 years of their dispossession as more catastrophe looms in Gaza

Palestinians are marking 76 years of dispossession, commemorating their mass expulsion from what is today Israel as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza.
 
People talk as they sit on sofas during Israel's Independence Day celebrations at a park in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Israelis are marking 76 years since Israel's creation. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg).

Israelis mark a subdued Independence Day under the shadow of war in Gaza

Israel鈥檚 Independence Day is normally a raucous affair, celebrated with day parties and barbecues in parks, but this year, celebrations 鈥� from Monday evening through Tuesday 鈥� were muted.
 
FILE - Students protesting against the war in Gaza, and passersby walking through Harvard Yard, are seen at an encampment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on April 25, 2024. Participants at the Harvard encampment protesting the war between Israel and Hamas announced they were voluntarily ending their occupation of Harvard Yard. The student protest group said in a statement that the encampment 鈥渙utlasted its utility with respect to our demands,鈥� and interim Harvard University President Alan Garber agreed to pursue a meeting between those involved in the protest and university officials. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Harvard students end protest as university agrees to discuss Middle East conflict

Anti-war protesters have taken down their tents in Harvard Yard after the university agreed to meet to discuss their demands.
 
A Syrian refugee woman carries her child as she prepares to go back home to Syria as part of a voluntary return, in the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Hundreds of Syrians refugees left a remote northeastern Lebanese town back to Syria in a convoy, amid a surge in anti-refugee sentiment in the small, crisis-hit country. Lebanese officials for years has urged the international community to resettle the refugees in other countries or help them return to Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hundreds of Syrian refugees head home as anti-refugee sentiment surges in Lebanon

More than 300 Syrians refugees are heading back home from northeastern Lebanon to an uncertain future in Syria as anti-refugee sentiment is surging in crisis-hit Lebanon.
 
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed during Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, next to the morgue in Deir al Balah, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The Latest | UN says over half a million people flee fighting in Gaza; Israel marks Independence Day

The United Nations says more than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in both southern and northern Gaza.
 
A Palestinian woman sits in front of her makeshift tent with her grandchildren after been displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip at a camp in Deir al Balah, Monday, May 13, 2024. Palestinians on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel. It's an event that is at the core of their national struggle, but in many ways pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza

Palestinians on Wednesday will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel. It鈥檚 an event that is at the core of their national struggle, but in many ways pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza.
 
A Houthi soldier stands on board of the Israeli Galaxy ship which was seized by the Houthis, in the port of Saleef, near Hodeidah, Yemen, Sunday, May. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

US calls on Iran to halt unprecedented weapons transfers to Yemen鈥檚 Houthis for attacks on ships

The United States is calling on Iran to halt its transfer of an 鈥渦nprecedented鈥� amount of weaponry to Yemen鈥檚 Houthi rebels, enabling their fighters to attack ships in the Red Sea and elsewhere.
 
This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo)

Notorious people smuggler wanted in Europe arrested in northern Iraq

One of Europe鈥檚 most notorious human smugglers has been arrested in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, security officials said.
 
FILE - Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof poses during a photo call for the film "The Immigrant" at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France on May 24, 2013. Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings just ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes film festival, his lawyer told 蜜桃社 on Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Iranian filmmaker flees to Europe after prison sentence ahead of his Cannes premiere

After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he鈥檚 fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film.
 
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk through a makeshift tent camp in Deir al Balah, Gaza, Sunday, May 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Misery deepens in Gaza鈥檚 Rafah as Israeli troops press operation

Aid workers are struggling to distribute dwindling food to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by what Israel says is a limited operation in Rafah.
 
FILE - An Emirates Airbus A380 jumbo jet lands at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. The long-haul carrier Emirates announced Monday, May 13, 2024, it saw record profits of $4.7 billion in 2023 as the airline fully took flight after the turbulent years of the coronavirus pandemic disrupted its operations.(AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Long-haul carrier Emirates sees $4.7 billion profit in 2023 as airline takes flight after pandemic

The long-haul carrier Emirates says it saw record profits of $4.7 billion in 2023 as the airline fully took flight after the turbulent years of the coronavirus pandemic disrupted its operations.
 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

Fires used as weapon of war in Sudan destroyed or damaged 72 villages last month, study says

A study says that fires resulting from the fighting in Sudan destroyed or damaged 72 villages last month in the country鈥檚 west 鈥� more than in any other month since the conflict erupted in mid-April last year.
 
A woman touches the wall with names of fallen soldiers during Israel's annual Memorial Day for the fallen soldiers who died in the nation's conflicts and victims of nationalistic attacks at the Armored Corps memorial site in Latrun, Israel, Monday, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

With the shock of Oct. 7 still raw, profound sadness and anger grip Israel on its Memorial Day

Memorial Day is always a somber occasion in Israel. But it has taken on a profound and raw sadness coupled with percolating anger in the aftermath of Oct. 7.
 
An Iranian man votes for the parliamentary runoff elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 10, 2024. Iranians voted Friday in a runoff election for the remaining seats in the country's parliament after hard-line politicians dominated March balloting. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

A parliamentary election runoff puts hard-liners firmly in charge of Iran鈥檚 parliament

Iran鈥檚 hard-liners have won most of the remaining seats in an election run-off to give them full control over the country鈥檚 parliament, authorities say.
 

Kuwait鈥檚 emir dissolves parliament again, amid political gridlock in oil-rich nation

Kuwait鈥檚 emir has again dissolved the small, oil-rich country鈥檚 parliament amid continuing political deadlock.
 

Iraqi government asks the United Nations to wind down its political mission in the country

The Iraqi government has requested the United Nations end a mission set up to promote governance and human rights reforms in the country by the end of 2025, the latest in a series of international bodies operating in the country that Iraq has sought to wind down.
 
This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

Syria鈥檚 Kurdish-led force hands over 2 IS militants suspected in 2014 mass killing of Iraqi troops

Syria鈥檚 U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led force has handed over to Baghdad two Islamic State group militants suspected of involvement in the 2014 massacre of Iraqi soldiers.
 
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital in Rafah, Gaza, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)

The Latest | UN General Assembly votes to give Palestine more rights by a wide margin

The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly passed a resolution to give Palestine more 鈥渞ights and privileges.鈥�
 
Staff members of a polling station attend to their stations during the parliamentary runoff elections in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 10, 2024. Iranians voted Friday in a runoff election for the remaining seats in the country's parliament after hard-line politicians dominated March balloting. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranians vote in a parliamentary runoff election after hard-liners dominate initial balloting

Iranians have voted in a runoff election for the remaining seats in the country鈥檚 parliament after hard-line politicians dominated March balloting.
 
Ibrahim Dawabsha, 34, holds hands with his daughter Ghena, 3 while posing for a picture in front of his truck, at the garage of the family house, that was torched during an attack by Israel settlers last month, in the West Bank village of Duma, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Israeli settlers attacked this West Bank village in a spasm of violence after a boy鈥檚 death

Charred homes and cars dot the hilltop West Bank village of Duma, a searing reminder of Palestinians鈥� vulnerability to rising violence from Israeli settlers.
 
FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks as he meets with President Joe Biden, Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. Biden and Netanyahu have long managed a complicated relationship. But now they find themselves running out of space to maneuver as their interests diverge and their political futures hang in the balance. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The Biden-Netanyahu relationship is strained like never before. Can the two leaders move forward?

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have long managed a complicated relationship.
 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

Sudanese paramilitary forces have carried out ethnic cleansing in Darfur, rights group says

A leading rights group says attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces and their allied militias that killed thousands in the western region of Darfur last year constitute a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the area鈥檚 non-Arab population.
 
FILE - Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof poses during a photo call for the film "The Immigrant" at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France on May 24, 2013. Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings just ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes film festival, his lawyer told 蜜桃社 on Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Award-winning director Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to prison in Iran ahead of Cannes

The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes film festival, his lawyer tells 蜜桃社.