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"Right now we are completing the mission and I can say that our extensive activity in Jenin is not a one-time operation," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a checkpoint near the city.Palestinian fighters from militant groups including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah had fortified the camp with roadblocks and checkpoints to counter regular army raids.Power and water supplies remained cut off in the camp and in some areas of the city after bulldozers ripping through roads looking for makeshift bombs severed cables and a main water main.Israeli forces discovered underground caches of explosives, one hidden in a tunnel…

“We need to train them so that they are not afraid. We need to train them to be better prepared,” said Flight Commander Chia-Hsien Chao, 34, an instructor at the base who also graduated from the Air Force Academy.Taiwan defense officials say a turning point was the trip last August by Nancy Pelosi, who, as Speaker of the House at the time, was the highest-ranking US official to visit the island in 25 years. China strongly opposed and condemned Pelosi's visit, which it viewed as promoting Taiwan independence, and responded after she left with live-fire drills that encircled the island…

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh is recognized as a city of bridges, industry and championship sports teams, and now, in a much newer development, as a powerhouse of progressive politics.The progressive candidates are in the midst of a revealing winning streak over more moderate Allegheny County Democrats, who for decades had a firm grip on power in Pittsburgh.In May, progressive State Rep. Sara Innamorato, who began her rise by defeating a left-wing Democratic state legislator in the 2018 primary, has won a hotly contested Democratic race. for county executive, the highest office in the entire county. On the same day, Matt Dugan,…

Masked gunmen attacked and seriously injured a prominent Russian journalist and a lawyer in Russia's Chechnya region Tuesday morning after forcing their car to stop, the journalist, her employer and human rights groups said.Yelena Milashina, a well-known journalist for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was traveling to the Chechen capital Grozny from the local airport with Alexander Nemov, a lawyer, when they were attacked.Milashina and Nemov, who had planned to attend a court hearing in the case of a woman they believed was being unfairly persecuted for political reasons, were taken to a hospital in a neighboring region and are expected…