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Tom Cotton pitches US troops as a 'viable solution' for invading Gaza

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Sunday suggested U.S. troops could be deployed into Gaza during Israel's war with Hamas.

During an interview on Fox News, host Shannon Bream asked Cotton about the possibility of using U.S. special forces to extract hostages.

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Fox News host amplifies Trump's lie that Hamas has released 'no America hostages'

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy repeated former President Donald Trump's false claim that Hamas had released no American hostages during the war with Israel.

The remarks were first flagged on social media by BadFoxGraphics.

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China ministry seeks more fever clinics to combat respiratory illness surge

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's health ministry on Sunday urged local authorities to increase the number of fever clinics as the country grapples with a surge in respiratory illnesses in its first full winter since easing COVID-19 restrictions. The spike become a global issue last week when the World Health Organization asked China for more information, citing a report on clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children by the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases. China and the WHO have faced questions about the transparency of reporting early in the pandemic, which emerged in the central Chinese...

David Bowie’s handwritten lyrics to 2 ‘Ziggy Stardust’ songs could fetch $125K at auction

A sheet of paper containing David Bowie’s handwritten lyrics to two songs from one of his most acclaimed albums could fetch more than $125,000 when it’s sold at auction early next week. One side of the “irregularly cut” piece of paper bears the lyrics to “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide,” while the other side contains the lyrics for “Suffragette City” — both with corrections, notations and footnotes. The tracks are from the late artist’s fifth studio album, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” released in June 1972. The lyric sheet is one of many pieces of rock history that w...

Violent gangs, a political impasse and desertion: What Canada’s new envoy faces in Haiti

Canada’s new ambassador in Port-au-Prince is no stranger to Haiti’s vexing challenges. But a lot has changed —and much hasn’t — since André François Giroux help to coordinate his country’s efforts at the United Nations to help train the Haitian police back in the late 1990s. Today, the job goes beyond reading files or U.N. reports from a remote location, and involves making the rounds through Port-au-Princes’s gang-ridden streets while trying to decipher fact from fiction in a country where things are not always as they seem. Giroux, who recently arrived in Port-au-Prince after being appointed...

Hundreds of Last Generation climate activists blockade Berlin street

Hundreds of demonstrators from the Last Generation climate activist group blocked a major road in central Berlin on Saturday. The Straße des 17. Juni (Street of the 17th of June), which runs between the Victory Column and Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate next to the seat of Germany's parliament, is a major connection between Berlin's city centre and the western suburbs. Police estimated the number of protesters involved in the blockade at around 700 as of 12:45 pm (1145 GMT). Some protesters sat on the pavement while others remained standing. Members of other activist groups also attended the ...

Rubik's Cube-loving 9-year-old among hostages freed from Gaza

By Rami Amichay PETAH TIKVA (Reuters) - Ohad Munder, who spent his ninth birthday as a hostage in Gaza, was among four young children freed from captivity on Friday, as he returned with his mother and grandmother to Israel on the first day of a planned four-day truce and prisoner exchange. Footage released by Schneider Children's Medical Center showed Ohad running down a hospital corridor straight into his father's open arms, as the pair were reunited after almost 50 days without any contact. His father then lifts him up. The four children were all in relatively good condition, Gilat Livni, th...

Italy is no country for young chefs

(Fixes typo in the first paragraph) By Antonella Cinelli ROME (Reuters) -Like many young people growing up in Sardinia, Davide Sanna loved Italian cuisine and wanted to have a successful career as a chef. But to do so, he had to move to New York. Sanna had worked in kitchens on the Mediterranean island and in northern Italy for four years, starting when he was only 19. But he was toiling 60 hours a week to take home just 1,800 euros ($1,963.26) a month, at best. In the busy summer season, he'd be at the stove every day for two months, without a break. Then a fellow chef put him in contact with...

Palestinians in Gaza use truce to pick through rubble of homes

By Bassam Massoud GAZA (Reuters) -After seven weeks of bombardment stopped in Gaza for a truce, Tahani al-Najjar used the calm on Saturday to return to the ruins of her home, smashed by an Israeli air strike that she said killed seven of her family and forced her into a shelter. More than 24 hours into the four-day pause in fighting, thousands of Gaza residents are making that same difficult journey from communal shelters and makeshift encampments to discover what has become of their homes. "Where will we live? Where will we go? We are trying to collect bits of wood to build a tent to shelter ...

Kim Jong Un reviews satellite photos of U.S. bases in Hawaii, South Korea: state media

North Korean state media said Saturday that leader Kim Jong Un has reviewed images taken by his country's new spy satellite of "major target regions" including the US military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and sites across South Korea.

Pyongyang successfully put a military spy satellite into orbit earlier this week, but South Korea said it was too early to determine if the satellite was functioning as the North claims.

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British troops patrol Kosovo-Serbia border as tensions remain high

By Fatos Bytyci JARINJE, Kosovo (Reuters) - British troops are patrolling the Kosovo-Serbia border as part of a NATO peacekeeping presence being bolstered amid concern that the former wartime foes could return to open conflict following a series of violent incidents in recent months. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization sent hundreds of additional forces to Kosovo from Britain and Romania after a battle between the authorities and armed Serbs holed up in a monastery turned a quiet village in northern Kosovo into a war zone on Sept. 24. One police officer and three gunmen were killed in the v...

Thousands expected to take part in pro-Palestinian rally in London

LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters were expected to join a pro-Palestinian march in London on Saturday, with city police warning demonstrators that anyone deemed to be racist would be arrested at the rally. A four-day truce agreed between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas saw the release of 24 Israeli hostages on Friday, but the UK-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which is organising Saturday's march, said it was "only a brief and partial respite for the people of Gaza". Hamas was expected to release 14 more hostages on Saturday, Egyptian security sources said, ...

Second group of hostages to be released from Gaza, reports say

Israel has reportedly received a list of names of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza who are to be released on Saturday as part of a deal between the two warring sides. The families of the 13 hostages have been informed, the Israeli news portal ynet and other outlets reported on Friday evening, citing the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli officials confirmed that eight of the 13 Israeli hostages to be released on Saturday are children. Following the start of the ceasefire in Gaza, a first group of 24 hostages - 13 Israelis and 11 foreigners - who were abducted in the Gaza Strip ...