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China offers to facilitate Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

Fox News China’s foreign minister told his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts that his country is ready to help facilitate peace talks between the two sides, in its latest effort at mediation in the region. In separate phone calls to the two officials on Monday, Qin Gang expressed China’s concern over intensifying tensions between Israel and…

French publishing manager held in UK for obstructing police

Washington Post A Paris publisher says one of its managers has been arrested in London after being questioned by police about participating in France’s protests against pension reform https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/18/publisher-arrested-french-terrorism-protests-macron-pension/cc5feb6e-de1f-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Tunisia detains opposition leader as crackdown escalates

Washington Post The detention of Rachid Ghannouchi, head of the Ennahda party, is the latest and most dramatic in a wave of arrests of Tunisian President Kais Saied’s critics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/18/rachid-ghannouchi-arrest-tunisia-kais-saied/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Mexican president accused of wiretapping activists, violating pledge

Fox News Press freedom groups said Tuesday the Mexican government apparently continued to use Pegasus spyware to infect telephones of human rights activists as recently as late 2022, despite a pledge by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to stop such spying. The activists targeted by the spyware work for the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez human…

Residents, aid workers surprised by closure of Iraqi camp

Washington Post Iraq’s ministry of migration and displacement has announced it shut down a camp housing internally displaced Iraqis with alleged ties to the Islamic State group https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/18/iraq-jadah-5-closed-islamic-state/9920aabc-de1b-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Police say several injured in western German city gym attack

Washington Post German police say several people have been injured in an attack at a gym in the western city of Duisburg https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/18/germany-attack-gym-duisburg/fcc6d46c-de14-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Devastating hospital fire in Beijing kills 21 people

Fox News Twenty-one people were killed after a fire broke out in the east wing of the inpatient department of a hospital in China’s capital Beijing, the Beijing Daily reported on Tuesday. The fire broke out at around 12:57 p.m. and was extinguished at around 13:33 p.m. after an emergency team rushed to the scene…

U.S. charges four Americans with aiding Kremlin efforts

Washington Post A new indictment expands charges in an alleged Russian political influence operation in Florida and Missouri. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/18/russian-influence-florida-missouri/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

How Much Did You Spend on Your Solo Vacation?

New York Times We spoke to readers about their recent solo travels, including their motivations to travel alone and what they chose to spend on. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/travel/solo-vacation-spending.html

Palestinian gunman shoots 2 Israelis in Jerusalem, the latest bloodshed in a cycle of violence

Fox News A Palestinian gunman shot and wounded two Israelis in Jerusalem on Tuesday, police said, the latest bloodshed in a year-long cycle of violence that shows no sign of abating. Meanwhile, in the northern occupied West Bank, a focus of fighting for the past year, the Israeli military conducted an arrest raid in the…