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​Eritrean asylum seekers clash with police during a demonstration in Tel Aviv.
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Eritrean riot fuels Bibi backlash

Over 150 people were injured, eight seriously, during violent clashes between hundreds of Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv, Israel, over the weekend. Protesters breached police barriers, smashing storefronts, car windows, and an event set-up at the Eritrean embassy. Riot police responded with tear gas and stun grenades, and at least 30 officers were injured in battles with demonstrators. Thirty-nine suspects, including some found to be carrying weapons, tear gas, and an electrical stun gun, were arrested.

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Europe

Ukraine’s war and the non-Western world

A new poll provides more evidence that Western and non-Western countries just don’t agree on how best to respond to the war in Ukraine.

US President Joe Biden during a campaign stop ahead of the midterm elections in Hallandale Beach, Florida.
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What We're Watching: Biden's secret papers, Ukrainians in Oklahoma, Tigrayan demobilization

Check your closets for classified docs, Ukrainian fighters headed for Oklahoma, the long road to peace in Ethiopia

What We’re Watching: Argentine VP assassination attempt, Ethiopian escalation, Zaporizhzhia tour
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What We’re Watching: Argentine VP assassination attempt, Ethiopian escalation, Zaporizhzhia tour

Argentina's VP Cristina Fernández de Kirchner survived an assassination attempt, Eritrea jumps back into Ethiopia’s civil war, UN nuclear inspectors assess Zaporizhzhia damage

What We’re Watching: SCOTUS immigration ruling, Barbecue runs Haiti quake relief, Eritreans back in Tigray
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What We’re Watching: SCOTUS immigration ruling, Barbecue runs Haiti quake relief, Eritreans back in Tigray

US Supreme Court ruling on "Remain in Mexico" policy, Haitian gang leader runs quake relief distribution, Eritrean troops are back in conflict-ridden Tigray

Is Ethiopia’s Tigray region really on the road to peace?
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Is Ethiopia’s Tigray region really on the road to peace?

Ethiopia's civil war in Tigray is on pause after a sudden ceasefire from the government. Will the truce hold? We analyze what's at stake for the country and the wider region.

Margaret Keenan, 90, is the first patient in Britain to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at University Hospital, administered by nurse May Parsons, at the start of the largest ever immunization program in British history, in Coventry.
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What We’re Watching: UK vaccine rollout, Eritrea in Tigray, football diplomacy

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Ethiopia at war with itself

Ethiopia is on the brink of civil war over its northern Tigray region. As the ethnic strife deepens, the crisis has already spilled over the border, and could become a humanitarian catastrophe for the entire Horn of Africa. What are the two sides fighting over?





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