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Israeli officials consider Hamas response to cease-fire proposal
Voice of America
Displaced Palestinians shelter in a UN-run school which was damaged in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 4, 2024. Smoke billows over hills in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights after rockets were fired from the Lebanese side of the border, July 3, 2024. Palestinians react, following an Israeli strike near a UN-run school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, in this still image taken from a video, July 3, 2024.
Israeli forces and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah traded aerial attacks along the border Thursday in the latest of months of exchanges that have raised fears of the Israeli war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip spreading to a wider regional conflict.
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Kylian Mbappe of France reacts after an injury during a quarter final match between Portugal and France at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Hamburg, Germany, July 5, 2024. Kylian Mbappe of France reacts after an injury during a quarter final match between Portugal and France at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Hamburg, Germany, July 5, 2024.
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This underwater photo taken on June 14, 2024 shows Black Turtle Dive conservation teacher Sandra Rubio (R) and her student Nannalin "Fleur" Pornprasertsom (L) surveying bleached corals around Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani. This underwater photo taken on June 14, 2024 shows Black Turtle Dive conservation teacher Sandra Rubio (R) and her student Nannalin "Fleur" Pornprasertsom (L) conducting a coral survey around Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani. This underwater photo taken on June 14, 2024 shows bleached corals around Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani. This aerial photo taken on June 15, 2024 shows Mae Head pier on Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani. This photo taken on June 14, 2024 shows Black Turtle Dive conservation teacher Sandra Rubio (L) teaching coral conservation to her students in the Black Turtle Dive classroom in Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani. This underwater photo shows Gavin Miller, the scientific program director from marine research center Global Reef, cleaning an artificial structure for coral planting around Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani, June 16, 2024. Black Turtle Dive conservation teacher Sandra Rubio holds a coral health chart used by citizen scientists to track the health of corals, in the Black Turtle Dive classroom in Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani, June 14, 2024. This underwater photo taken on June 14, 2024 shows fish swimming over bleached corals around Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani. This underwater photo taken on June 15, 2024 shows a crown of thorns feeding amongst bleached corals around Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani.
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FILE - A doping control official attends the women's semifinal ice hockey game played between Canada and Russia on Feb. 19, 2018, at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea. FILE - Igor Son of Kazakhstan competes in the men's 61 kilogram weightlifting event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 25, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Son, who won the bronze in the category, was among six weightlifters from Kazakhstan to receive doping bans.
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Tsenguun Saruulsaikhan, then a candidate vying for a position in Mongolia's parliament, speaks at a party headquarters in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, June 27, 2024. A Mongolian woman consults a fortuneteller divining fortunes with stones on a street across from Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on June 27, 2024.