.Graeme Wood: 'Without consideration of the October 7 attacks, something is missing from the ICJ proceedings...The case is going forward almost as if the Gaza war were not preceded by, and in retaliation for, an attack that itself resembled genocide.' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The Republican presidential frontrunner confirms he wants to build detention camps for illegal immigrants and send the U.S. military to deport ~ 11 million people

Scoop: Lawmakers & staff in both parties (including Speaker Johnson) wanted to add the Assad Anti-Normalization Act to last week's national security supplemental bill, but the White House strongly objected & so it was removed from the package. Shame.

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“To me, you can’t really understand the situation without recognizing that Hamas started this engagement by launching a massacre of almost unimaginable scale and brutality and then retreated to what has always been its key strategic defense in Gaza, which is intentionally placing

NEW WP investigation: In June Indian intelligence officer Vikram Yadav aka CC1 handled hit on Sikh separatist Pannun on US soil likely authorized by RAW chief Samant Goel, acc to US/Indian sources + US intel assessment... w Greg Miller Ellen Nakashima🧵
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“White House officials warned the Modi government this month that The Post was close to publishing an investigation that would reveal new details about the case. It did so without notifying The Post.” washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

“For many Serbs, it’s as if the Taliban wanted to build a luxury apartment compound on the site of New York’s Twin Towers.
That’s how news of a redevelopment project proposed by Jared Kushner…is being taken in some quarters of Belgrade.” politico.eu/article/trump-…

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(Reuters) - Ukraine's top commander said on Sunday Kyiv's outnumbered troops had fallen back to new positions west of three villages on the eastern front where Russia has concentrated significant forces in several locations.

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“Some senior U.S. officials have advised Blinken that they do not find ‘credible or reliable’ Israel's assurances that it is using U.S.-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law, according to an internal State Department memo” reuters.com/world/middle-e…

“U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Putin likely didn’t order Navalny to be killed…The assessment doesn’t dispute Putin’s culpability for Navalny’s death, but rather finds he probably didn’t order it at that moment.” wsj.com/world/russia/a…

'Mike Johnson had been speaker for less than two months when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to him with a stark message: Time is running out.'

Behind-the-scenes, from Alex Ward politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

Israel rebukes US calls for investigation into mass graves in Gaza ow.ly/O6bh105qWT4

Leaked USAID memo says Israel failed to fulfill White House's requirement to adhere to int'l humanitarian law and permit unimpeded delivery of US-funded humanitarian aid to Gaza, columlynch reports.

Blinken required to certify to Congress by May 8.

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