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When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to occupy a sensitive corridor of land in the Gaza Strip along the border with Egypt late last year, Cairo's response was public, explicit and threatening.“It must be strictly underlined that any Israeli move in this direction will lead to a serious threat to Egyptian-Israeli relations,” the Egyptian government said in a statement in English in January, weeks after Netanyahu announced plans to occupy the area. called the Philadelphia Corridor. Egypt has said an Israeli military presence there would violate the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries.This week, the Israeli army announced that it had taken “tactical control” of the corridor. Yet while the Egyptian government has faced internal pressure to take a toughe...

A third farm worker in the United States has been infected with avian influenza, raising concerns about an outbreak among dairy cattle first identified in March.The worker is the first in this outbreak to have respiratory symptoms, including cough, sore throat and watery eyes, which generally increase the likelihood of transmission to other people, federal officials said Thursday.The other two people only had severe eye infections, probably due to exposure to contaminated milk.All three individuals had direct exposure to dairy cows, and so far none have spread the virus to other people, Dr. Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a news conference.This suggests that the virus, called H5N1, has not acquired the ability to spread betwe...

The decision follows weeks of intense behind-the-scenes conversations with the Ukrainians, made even more urgent after Russia began a major assault on Kharkiv around May 10. Three days later, on May 13, Sullivan, Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. held one of their regularly scheduled secure video conferences with their Ukrainian counterparts. Once again, the Ukrainians pressed Biden to lift US restrictions on firing into Russian territory, arguing that the president's concerns about escalation were overblown. But now, they said, the issue has become more urgent because the Russians are bombing civilian sites around Kharkiv from inside their border, knowing that the Ukrainians could not fully respond.After the meeting, officials said, Mr. Sull...

Elon Musk-owned social media service a person familiar with the plans.The town halls, which will be done in partnership with cable channel NewsNation, have yet to be scheduled and the moderators have not been chosen, said the person, who wished to remain anonymous because the plans have not yet been made public. X users will be able to ask presidential candidates questions during events.In an appearance on NewsNation on Wednesday evening, Mr. Kennedy confirmed his plans to participate in a town hall, adding that Mr. Musk has offered use of the platform.X has undergone a transformation under Musk's ownership, as the billionaire has slashed his workforce, overhauled his technology and used the platform to advance his personal agendas.The town halls follow a March meeting between Trump a...

Israel's announcement on Wednesday that its forces have gained control over a strip of land running along the southern border of the Gaza Strip suggests that one of the objectives of the country's war against Hamas has been achieved, but portends further isolation for Palestinians in the enclave.Here's a look at the importance of the border strip to Israel, the Palestinians and Egypt:What is the border strip?It is a land about 100 meters wide that extends about eight miles from Israel's border to the Mediterranean. The new border, which divided the city of Rafah, was established under the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty. Gaza lies to the northeast, while Egypt lies to the southwest. Egyptian border guards guard the territory under an agreement with Israel made in 2005, whe...

PTSD diagnoses among college students more than doubled between 2017 and 2022, rising most sharply as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered campuses and upended students' lives, according to new research released Thursday. young adults.According to the findings, the prevalence of PTSD rose to 7.5% from 3.4% during that period. Researchers analyzed responses from more than 390,000 participants in the Healthy Minds Study, an annual web-based survey.“The magnitude of this increase is truly shocking,” said Yusen Zhai, the study's lead author, who directs the community counseling clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His clinic had seen multiple young people struggle following traumatic events. So he expected an increase, but not that big.Dr. Zhai, an assistant professor in...

Dishes served at a community center for Indian expatriates near Washington, D.C., ranged from chana masala, a popular North Indian chickpea curry, to idli, a South Indian rice cake.Equally varied were the guests' opinions on the general elections in India. Some have praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic achievements. Supporters of candidates challenging Modi's party criticized what they saw as his contempt for minorities and democratic norms.“What is the vision for India in 2024?” the host, Somu Kumar, a manager at a cloud computing company, recently talked about that winter lunch. “This makes a lot of people excited to talk.”The 35 million-strong Indian diaspora, roughly equivalent in population to the Delhi metropolitan area, represents a small minority of the n...

At a vast complex in Warren, Michigan, General Motors' hopes for the future of its driverless cars come to fruition in a virtual reality headset offered to visitors.In one video, the electric, autonomous car drives itself. Wirelessly connected to traffic lights and surrounding roads, the car avoids collisions and reduces congestion, part of what GM calls its “0-0-0” vision – “zero accidents, zero emissions, zero congestion.”At least, that's the plan. GM's driverless future seems much further away today than it did a year ago, when Cruise, GM's driverless car subsidiary, was engaged in an aggressive expansion of its robot taxi services, testing in 15 cities across 10 states .On October 2, a Cruise driverless car hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet on a San Francisco stree...

Seeking to capitalize on outrage over Sunday's Israeli attack that set fire to an encampment and killed at least 45 displaced Palestinians, including children, many U.N. Security Council diplomats this week are backing a new resolution that would call for a halt immediate fire and the halt to Israeli military operations in the city of Rafah.But they will have to overcome objections from the United States, which has veto power over the Council and has signaled it will not support the resolution in its current form.Algeria, the only Arab representative in the current composition of the Security Council, drafted and circulated the one-page resolution, which states that “Israel, the occupying Power, will immediately stop its military offensive and any other actions in Rafah." We call for ...