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Israel Says Its Military Is Starting to Shift to a More Targeted Gaza Campaign

Israel said its military is starting to shift from a large-scale ground and air campaign in the Gaza Strip to a more targeted phase in its war against Hamas, and Israeli officials have privately told their American counterparts that they hoped the transition would be completed by the end of January, U.S. officials said. Israel’s

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Killing of Hezbollah commander in Lebanon fuels fear Israel-Hamas war could expand outside Gaza

The Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah confirmed Monday that one of its senior commanders, Wissam al-Taweel, was killed in southern Lebanon. Three security sources told the Reuters news agency he and another operative were killed when their car was hit by an Israeli strike. “This is a very painful strike,” one of the sources told Reuters,

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Mexican authorities investigate massacre after alleged attack by cartel drones and gunmen

An alleged cartel attack in a remote community in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero killed at least six people and injured 13 others, the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said Sunday. Those killed apparently died in a burned-out vehicle, according to investigators’ interviews with residents, but the bodies were removed by locals before agents arrived.

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Francis Urges Ban on Surrogacy, Calling It ‘Despicable’

Pope Francis on Monday called surrogate motherhood a “despicable” practice that should be universally banned for its “commercialization” of pregnancy, including the practice among wars, terrorism and other threats to peace and humanity in an annual speech to ambassadors. An unborn child must not be “turned into an object of trafficking,” Francis said, adding. “I

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