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Israeli planes hit Gaza as Jerusalem crisis deepens

Bloomberg Israeli fighter jets struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, killing at least two people, in response to rockets fired by Palestinian protesters into Israel. The clashes came as Muslims took to the streets from the West Bank to Jakarta to protest US President Donald Trump’s move to recognise contested Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Violence associated with the “Day ...

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‘Macron doesn’t get everything right on Europe’

Bloomberg Martin Schulz signalled he wouldn’t give France a blank check on European policy if he takes the party into a government with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Fresh from re-election as head of Germany’s second-biggest party, Schulz combined a defense of his call for a “United States of Europe” by 2025 with a message to French President Emmanuel Macron. Schulz has ...

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Honduras election row drags on with no winner

Bloomberg Honduras is headed into its third week without a winner in presidential elections amid a political standoff between the two leading candidates and few signs its worst crisis in a decade is about to end. The Central American country of 9 million has slipped into a full-blown constitutional emergency since a chaotic November 26 election ended in claims that ...

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