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Aug 2024
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Ukraine’s incursion, Khan Younis evacuat...

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Russia has evacuated parts of a second region next to Ukraine after Kyiv sharply increased military activity near the border. It is just days after its biggest incursion into sovereign Russian territory since the start of the 2022 war. Israel has expanded evacuation orders in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, forcing tens of thousands of Palestinian residents and displaced families to leave. The Paris Olympics has delivered a dazzling summertime success but President Macron must now deal with a self-created political crisis that he swept under the carpet until the Games were over.


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