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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel's actions and goals in Gaza in an interview with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep on Friday.

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Netanyahu says Gaza needs a new 'civilian government,' but won't say who

12:17pm November 17, 2023

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Israel's war on Hamas. Netanyahu says once Hamas is defeated, Israel has to make sure there is no resurgence of terrorism.

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Up First briefing: Netanyahu talks Gaza's future; Sean 'Diddy' Combs accused of rape

11:30am November 17, 2023

by Suzanne Nuyen

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Benjamin Netanyahu on Gaza's future after Israel's military response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs is accused of rape and assault.

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Hundreds of mourners gather for the funeral service of Canadian Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver on Thursday in Kibbutz Gezer, Israel.

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Mourners gather in Israel to honor memory of longtime peace activist Vivian Silver

8:36am November 17, 2023

by Maya Levin

Hundreds of mourners gathered at a funeral service for Canadian Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver. She was declared dead this week after her remains were found at her home in Israel.

Guatemala's President-elect Bernardo Arévalo leaves at the end of a press conference in the Plaza of Human Rights in Guatemala City after Guatemalan prosecutors announced they would seek to strip Arévalo and several members of his party of their immunity from prosecution.

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Guatemalan prosecutors pursue plans to press charges against the President-elect

10:36pm November 16, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

In Guatemala, prosecutors move against President-elect Bernardo Arevalo, as the slow motion coup he predicted begins to pick up pace.

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The U.S. and China agree to curb fentanyl. Will it work?

6:16pm November 16, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with reporter Ben Westhoff, author of Fentanyl, Inc., about President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping's agreement to curb fentanyl precursor chemical production in China.

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A view from the Egypt-Gaza border

4:41pm November 16, 2023

by Aya Batrawy

Since the start of the war, Gaza's only lifeline to the world has been its crossing with Egypt, where Egyptian truck drivers ferry needed aid to Gaza's besieged population on the other side.

Police in the U.K. made an arrest after a fatal hockey incident

4:41pm November 16, 2023

A fatal incident on the ice during a professional hockey game in the UK led to an arrest this week, and raises questions about the line between a terrible accident and a criminal act.

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Guatemala's President-elect faces charges from prosecutors

4:28pm November 16, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

In Guatemala, prosecutors move against President elect Bernardo Arevalo, as the slow motion coup he predicted begins to pick up pace.

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How will China's economic stagnation impact its relations with the U.S.?

1:40pm November 16, 2023

by Terry Gross

New Yorker writer Evan Osnos explains the contentious relationship between China and the U.S. and discusses the significance and possible results of Wednesday's meeting between Biden and President Xi.

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An internally displaced woman feeds her daughter at their room in a school reconverted as a temporary center for internally displaced people on Oct. 25, in Tyre, Lebanon. The International Organization for Migration reported 19,646 people had been displaced inside Lebanon since Oct. 8, the day after an assault on Israel by Hamas militants.

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Israel-Hezbollah fighting forces people in southern Lebanon to flee violence — again

11:29am November 16, 2023

by Jane Arraf

Thousands of villagers living along the border with Israel have been evacuated to Tyre, 50 miles south of Beirut. Their escape is a reminder of the cost of the war in Gaza, even far from its borders.

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