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Musk: 'The left is the party of murder'

Tech billionaire Elon Musk claimed that left-leaning people were “celebrating” conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death “openly.” “And then you see how much violence there's on the left, with our friend Charlie Kirk getting murdered in cold blood this week, and people on the

Israel intensifies Gaza City bombing as Rubio arrives

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Simon Lewis CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces destroyed at least 30 residential buildings in Gaza City and forced thousands of people from their homes, Palestinian officials said, as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived on Sunday to

Palestinians flee Gaza City under Israeli bombardment

Palestinian families streamed out of Gaza City on Sunday, some crammed into pick-up trucks, others on foot, as Israeli forces pressed their assault on the territory's main urban centre. Parents carried their children while the elderly hobbled along, an AFP journalist reported.

Why Charlie Kirk's death hits the Trump White House so hard

President Trump was meeting with architects about plans for a White House ballroom when staff interrupted to inform him that Charlie Kirk, the prominent conservative activist, had been killed. "I didn't know what they meant. I said, 'What do you mean, dead?'" Trump recounted

The Palestinian Organizer Who Wouldn’t Be Silenced

In early March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil—a Palestinian Columbia University graduate student, campus organizer, and legal permanent resident—and detained him for more than three months, as the Trump administration worked to strip him of his

Often give in

In an oft-quoted speech, Winston Churchill said: Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the