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Thousands of people joined vigils in Berlin and London on October 22 to oppose antisemitism and support Israel, while in Paris and other cities, thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators demanded a cease-fire and relief for people in the besieged Gaza Strip. Some of those who gathered in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate carried Israeli flags or posters with photos of some of the more than 200 people seized by Hamas as hostages during the militants’ deadly October 7 incursion into Israel. “It is unbearable that Jews are living in fear again today — in our country of all places,” President...

A court in Iran sentenced two female journalists to up to seven years in prison for “collaborating” with the United States government among other charges. Both have been imprisoned for over a year following their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody in September 2022, local reports said. It was a preliminary sentencing that can be appealed in 20 days. The two journalists, Niloofar Hamedi, who broke the news of Amini’s death for wearing her headscarf too loosely, and Elaheh Mohammadi, who wrote about her funeral, were sentenced to seven and six years in jail...

President Joe Biden told a crowd of Democratic donors about a decades-old photo he took with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an aside that seemed intended to illustrate his long support of Israel and track record of speaking bluntly with the conservative Israeli leader. Biden said he had written on the photo of himself as a young senator and Netanyahu as an embassy hand, “Bibi, I love you. I don’t agree with a damn thing you say.'” He told donors at a fundraiser on October 20, that Netanyahu still keeps the photo on his desk and had brought it up...

President Joe Biden is trying to sweeten his pitch to allocate more money for Ukraine by mixing in billions of dollars for securing the Mexico-U.S. border, in the hope that it will bring more Republicans on board. The idea came up in September, after Ukraine assistance was stripped out of a stopgap measure to keep the government running due to growing Republican resistance to financing the war effort. A lot has changed since September 30: The House has lost its speaker and Republicans are in disarray over selecting a new one, and the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel...

When the sun rose on October 20 and the autumn heat baked the rotten debris on Gaza’s streets, Mohammed Elian emerged from the zipper hole of his new canvas home. Elian, and hundreds of other Palestinians displaced by the latest war between Israel and Hamas, have crowded into a squalid tent camp in southern Gaza. It is an image that has brought back memories of their greatest trauma. After the Israeli military ordered Elian’s family, along with more than 1 million other Palestinians, to evacuate the north, the smartly dressed 35-year-old graphic designer from Gaza City ended up homeless...

Fifty years after the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the current crisis in the Middle East has the potential to disrupt global oil supplies and push prices higher. But experts say do not expect a repeat of the catastrophic price hikes and long lines at the gasoline pump. The Israel-Hamas war is “definitely not good news” for oil markets already stretched by cutbacks in oil production from Saudi Arabia and Russia and expected stronger demand from China, the head of the International Energy Agency said. Markets will remain volatile, and the conflict could push oil prices higher, “which is definitely...