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The Israeli military said Friday that its forces advanced into central Rafah, pushing even deeper into the southern city of Gaza, despite international backlash and pressure from allies to scale back the latest offensive.Israeli commandos, supported by tanks and artillery, were operating in central Rafah, the Israeli army said in a statement, without specifying precise locations. On Wednesday, the Israeli military said it had established "operational control" over the border area with Egypt, an eight-mile-long strip known as the Philadelphia Corridor on the outskirts of Rafah.Commercially available satellite images, taken on Thursday by Planet Labs, also show that the Israeli…

In the charges against his niece, Trump argued that she had broken the terms of a confidentiality agreement that was part of a settlement tied to the will of Fred C. Trump, the former president's father, who died in 1999. Mrs. Trump, who revealed her role as a source for the Times in a 2020 memoir, argues that the First Amendment protected her actions. In a three-page opinion Thursday, the state appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling that there was a "substantial legal basis" for Trump's breach of contract. The opinion also notes several questions that will need to…

Madrid's regional president, Isabel Ayuso, said in a radio interview Thursday that her government will take steps to hinder the implementation of the new law and will appeal as it is unconstitutional. Pablo Simón, a political scientist at the Carlos III University of Madrid, said judges could also take legal action if they found the granting of general legal amnesty discriminatory. "Each judge has different criteria," Simón explained, adding that he could also resort to the intervention of the European Court of Justice "if he considers that the granting of the general amnesty is discriminatory", in which case "the law…

Palestinians inspecting some of the damage a day after an Israeli attack near a camp for displaced people in Rafah on Sunday started a fire that killed at least 45 people.Credit…Eyad Baba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Seeking to capitalize on outrage over Sunday's Israeli attack that set fire to an encampment and killed at least 45 displaced Palestinians, including children, many U.N. Security Council diplomats this week are backing a new resolution that would call for the 'immediate suspension of the fire and the end of the fire. Israeli military operations in the city of Rafah.But they will have to…