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Two photographers, including one working for The Associated Press, were struck by rubber-coated bullets fired at close range by an Israeli border policeman on Sunday. An Israeli police spokesman says it's unclear why the officer fired.

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Wildlife biologist Andrea Turkalo shared with NPR’s Morning Edition how she had to quickly flee the bai last year as war closed in in Central African Republic, shortly before the elephant slaughter. But she’s still working to try to save the elephants that remain — collaborating, in part, with Nir Kalron, a former Israeli soldier who now […]

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An Israeli SWAT team descended on a mentally ill man who had taken his 4-year-old niece hostage. The unidentified 30-year-old suspect barricaded himself inside his brother’s seventh floor apartment in Ashkelon and refused to cooperate with police. After negotiations failed, SWAT was called to take down the man, the Daily Mail reports. They hung precariously […]

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