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Three U.S. troops suffered non-combat injuries in the effort to make a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza into a conduit for humanitarian aid, with one in critical condition at an Israeli hospital, U.S. officials said on Thursday.The injuries were the first for U.S. forces during the latest operation to bring humanitarian aid to Palestinians.The pier was announced by U.S. President Joe Biden in March and involved the military assembling the floating structure off the coast. Estimated to cost $320 million for the first 90 days and involve about 1,000 U.S. service members, it went into operation last week.U.S. Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, told reporters that two of the troops had a sprained ankle and a minor back injury."Two were very minor, routine injuries. Those individuals returned to duty," Cooper said.A third service member, injured on a ship at sea, was medically evacuated to a hospital in Israel, he said. A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the individual was in critical condition.
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Sounds dangerous, have we considered asking Israel to lift its blockade instead?
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday called an election earlier than most expected—for July 4—and the gallows humor in his party is that there is no benefit in prolonging the agony of defeat. After 14 years in office, the ruling Tories will need a miracle to pull off a victory this time.The PM seems to be betting that an election campaign will finally cause Britons to listen to his agenda for the next five years. He also hopes debates will help him remind voters that Labour is a party of the left rather than the inoffensive centrists that Mr. Starmer wants Britons to believe they are.Mr. Sunak will try to offer a tax contrast with Labour, which always raises taxes. But voters may not believe the Conservatives after their recent record. Foreign policy won’t work as Mr. Starmer has been stalwart in support of Ukraine and surprisingly good in support of Israel.Britain could use a vigorous debate addressing its many serious challenges and economic decline. Immigration ranks as a top concern as voters worry about the cost of providing housing and social services to illegal migrants and the humanitarian disaster of crossing the English Channel in small boats.Fiscal crises loom, especially for a socialized healthcare system that will struggle to cope with an aging population. This and other entitlements impinge on security spending in a more dangerous world, as both parties struggle to explain how they’ll fund their pledges to devote 2.5% of GDP to defense.
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Hundreds of students walked out of Harvard University’s commencement ceremony on Thursday morning as degrees were conferred, while hundreds chanted “Let them walk!”, a reference to 13 student protesters who were not allowed to graduate after a vote Wednesday by the Harvard Corporation, the university’s governing body.The walkout was a jarring reminder of continuing unrest on the Cambridge campus, on a day when more than 9,000 graduates and their families were gathered in Harvard Yard for celebration and reflection.At the start of the ceremony, the university’s interim president, Alan Garber — loudly booed by some in the crowd — acknowledged the turmoil, and the possibility that “some among us may choose to take the liberty of expressing themselves to draw attention to events unfolding in the wider world.”“This moment of joy coincides with moments of fear and dread, grief and anger, suffering and pain,” he said. “Elsewhere, people are experiencing the worst days of their lives.” He asked the crowd to observe a minute of silence.Student speakers at the ceremony strongly criticized the Harvard Corporation for its vote on Wednesday to bar the 13 undergraduate protesters from receiving their degrees in the wake of campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war. The move was seen by the students and their faculty supporters as a violation of an agreement made between administrators and students to clear their encampment from Harvard Yard.
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These students are America’s moral voices. Many of the older generation have lost it.
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More importantly, where were FSB while this was all going down even though they were warned by their own embassies Why…
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Europe should be smarter about this, they’ve seen firsthand the US doesn’t honor its commitments. The Europeans will hav…
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