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A view of the mosque known as the "Hamas mosque" in Silwad. The town is the birthplace of Khaled Mashal, a founding member of the militant group behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Those who don't support Hamas — a sizable majority in the West Bank — attend other mosques in Silwad.

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Home was the West Bank; today it's the U.S. These expats hope to bring change to both

5:29am March 07, 2024

by D. Parvaz

Palestinian-Americans are spending big to help spur economic development in the village of Silwad in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But they are also working to effect change back in the U.S.

Taiwan is looking to further restrict which seeds and saplings can be brought out of the island after accusing China of taking a pineapple cultivar developed in Taiwan.

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The latest thorn in Taiwan-China tensions: pineapples

5:00am March 07, 2024

by Emily Feng

Taiwan says its newly developed type of pineapple is just the latest agricultural property taken by China.

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Socialist Party leader Pedro Nuno Santos, left, greets Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa as he arrives for an election campaign rally in Lisbon, March 5, 2024.

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Anger over corruption and Portugal's economy dominate Sunday's general election

2:49am March 07, 2024

by The Associated Press

Portugal holds a general election, following the resignation amid a corruption investigation of Socialist leader António Costa, after eight years in power. He hasn't been accused of any crime.

A former Google engineer was charged with stealing AI technology while secretly working with two China-based companies.

Chinese national arrested and charged with stealing AI trade secrets from Google

7:13pm March 06, 2024

by Ryan Lucas

Prosecutors say at the same time that Linwei Ding was working for Google and stealing the building blocks of its AI technology, he was also secretly employed by two China-based tech companies.

A pedestrian walks past the international airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday. Gang members exchanged gunfire with police and soldiers around the airport in the latest of a series of attacks on government sites.

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Haiti's prime minister is stranded abroad as gangs threaten 'civil war'

6:18pm March 06, 2024

Haiti's embattled prime minister is in neighboring Puerto Rico, still unable to return to Port-au-Prince, as calls for him to resign grow louder by the day.

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This photograph shared by the Indian Navy on the X platform shows a firefighting team from Indian Navy vessel INS Kolkata responding to a fire on Liberian-flagged Merchant ship MSC Sky II caused due to a suspected drone/missile attack in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday.

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Houthi missile attack kills 3 crew members in rebels' first fatal assault on shipping

6:01pm March 06, 2024

by The Associated Press

An attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden killed three of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel. Four crew members were injured, officials said.

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A new generation of young entrepreneurs are taking over China's private sector

5:07pm March 06, 2024

by Emily Feng

Much of China's private sector is helmed by powerful family firms that drove economic growth for decades. Now, a new generation of entrepreneurs are taking over these firms.

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Gabriel García Márquez greets journalists and neighbors on his birthday outside his house in Mexico City on March 6, 2014.

Gabriel García Márquez's last novel is published against his wishes

4:54pm March 06, 2024

by Carrie Kahn

Until August is the last novel of the Nobel Prize-winning author, a work he asked his sons to destroy. But, nearly 10 years after his death, they have decided to publish his final novel.

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A view of the destruction caused by demonstrators outside the presidential palace in Mexico City on Wednesday, during a protest over the disappearance of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa teaching training school in 2014. The group of demonstrators knocked down one of the doors of building with a pickup truck.

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Protesters ram a truck into Mexico's presidential palace over missing students

12:47pm March 06, 2024

by Eyder Peralta

Protesters broke down the door of Mexico's presidential palace with a truck on Wednesday, demanding answers for 43 college students who went missing a decade ago.

The New York Times report on Dec. 31, 2023, about the deadly Hamas attacks caused a rift in the newsroom. For example, a relative of the late Gal Abdush, whose family is shown above in a large front-page photograph, later voiced doubts, helping to fuel skepticism around the report.

Newsroom at 'New York Times' fractures over story on Hamas attacks

11:12am March 06, 2024

by David Folkenflik

The newsroom union at The New York Times accuses the paper of targeting staffers of Middle Eastern descent during an inquiry into leaks about internal debates over a story on the Hamas attacks.