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US midterms put pro-Israel powerhouse AIPAC on defensive

For years, the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC was a US political juggernaut, but deepening voter disillusion over US-Israeli ties and wins by openly Israel-skeptic candidates in last week's midterm elections have left it reeling. Candidates of all stripes long courted the

UN rights office voices alarm on Egypt press freedom

GENEVA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office voiced alarm on Tuesday about Egyptian authorities' widening assaults on press freedom and called for the immediate release of detained journalists. Egyptian police arrested the entire newsroom of fact-checking