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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden will host Jordan's King Abdullah II next week, the White House said Friday, as negotiations continue in the Middle East for a ceasefire in Gaza. The meeting will be "private" and will be followed by a readout, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters, without giving a date for the encounter. The meeting comes against the backdrop of talks for a deal to release hostages and secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza after nearly seven months of war. The talks, which come after months of efforts by mediators Egypt, Qatar and...
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Washington (AFP) - What does Joe Biden have to say about the rowdy student protests against Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza that have rocked American college campuses in recent weeks? Almost nothing. The US president has so far avoided the contentious subject as it is likely to complicate his reelection campaign. The 81-year-old Democrat, who will almost certainly face Republican Donald Trump in November's presidential election, has publicly addressed the demonstrations only once and briefly, even as students have clashed with police and several hundred people have been arrested at universitie...
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New York (AFP) - As a storm broke over New York, riot police mounted a tall ladder on a reinforced truck to penetrate a building at Columbia University and clear out barricaded pro-Palestinian protesters. Scores of armed, helmet-clad NYPD officers arrived in the north-west of Manhattan on Tuesday evening, accompanied by buses and trucks, as they set up barriers around the grounds of the prestigious institution. Columbia, which counts 37,000 students and is typically open to the public, was entirely surrounded. Called into action after a request for help from university president Minouche Shafi...
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New York (AFP) - Columbia University normally teems with students, but a "Free Palestine" banner now hangs from a building where young protesters have barricaded themselves and the few wandering through campus generally appear tense. Students here were among the first to embrace the pro-Palestinian campus encampment movement, which has spread to a number of universities across the United States. Despite Columbia's status as an epicenter of the student demos, the majority of its thousands of students are not camped out in tents, and have a variety of opinions on the matter, which has upended th...
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Dearborn (United States) (AFP) - It's common to hear residents chatting in Arabic just as often as English in this Detroit suburb's stores or mosques, those buildings themselves often sporting bilingual signage out front. But no matter the language, residents in this Arab American and Muslim stronghold in the Midwestern state of Michigan are convinced President Joe Biden, as he steadfastly stands by Israel in its war in Gaza, is not listening to them. "Vote for Palestine. No Biden," political organizer Samra'a Luqman says in English, passing out fliers outside a mosque after prayers. "Don't vo...
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Washington (AFP) - The administration of President Joe Biden has begun to publicly air its differences with the Israeli government over the conduct of the war in Gaza, expressing its exasperation even as it remains largely steady in its support. Biden referred this week to "indiscriminate bombing" in Gaza, underscoring his frustration with conservative Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose government Biden agrees is starting to lose global support. The Democratic US administration is even beginning to talk about a "timetable" for how long Israel's high-intensity military operations ...
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Washington (AFP) - The president of Harvard University on Wednesday faced criticism and calls for her resignation over her comments at a Capitol Hill hearing on campus anti-Semitism. The deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas militants has ignited tensions on many American college campuses, with protests flaring. At Harvard, donors have specifically called for President Claudine Gay to offer more explicit support for Israel, and condemnation of student groups who have voiced support for the Palestinian people. On Tuesday, Gay testified before the House Education Committee at a hearing dedic...
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Princeton (United States) (AFP) - Many Gazans were hostile to Hamas ahead of the group's brutal October 7 attack on Israel, with some describing its rule as a second occupation, according to rare polling data analyzed by a US-Palestinian researcher. The findings are striking against a backdrop of protests and counter-protests triggered by the attack, with the relationship between Hamas and ordinary Gazans often the subject of heated debate. "We find in our surveys that 67 percent of Palestinians in Gaza had little or no trust in Hamas in that period right before the attacks," said Amaney Jamal...
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Joint Base Andrews (United States) (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday he would seek "concrete measures" from Israel to minimize harm to Gaza civilians as he headed on his second crisis trip to the Middle East since a Hamas assault triggered a war. President Joe Biden has promised full support and ramped-up military aid to Israel for its retaliatory strikes in Gaza, but in a visible shift of tone has also voiced empathy for Palestinian suffering which has stoked anger in parts of the world. "We will be talking about concrete steps that can and should be taken to minimize...
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Washington (AFP) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken has acknowledged the emotional toll that the war between Israel and Hamas has taken on US diplomats amid media reports of internal dissent over Washington's handling of the conflict. Blinken sent a letter to all State Department employees Thursday night noting the "challenging" circumstances affecting the US diplomatic corps, some of whom feel the "ripples of fear and bigotry" the conflict has generated. US leaders including President Joe Biden and Blinken have pledged unwavering support for Israel, publicly blessing the country's reprisals ...
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