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South Africa accused Israel of “killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, and inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A girl holds a portrait of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in a market in Lagos, Nigeria, March 31, 1978, the ...

His map, which was initially rejected by Tube bosses for being too revolutionary, aimed to enlarge the dense central section in relation to the outlying areas. It was also geographical inaccurate ...

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