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Israel has used white phosphorus in Gaza and in two rural locations near the border with Lebanon, Human Rights Watch alleged in a recently released report amid escalating conflict.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -More than 1 million Palestinians in northern Gaza faced an Israeli deadline on Saturday to flee south, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had only just begun to retaliate for last week's Hamas rampage across southern Israel.

Elon Musk's X illegally fired an employee in retaliation for her internet posts challenging its return-to-office policy, the U.S. labor board alleged on Friday. In the complaint, a regional director of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) accused X — formerly known as Twitter — of violating the federal law that prohibits punishing employees for communicating and organizing with others about their working conditions.

Hamas will confront an ever-more capable opponent trained for years by a clandestine support network that stretches far beyond the tiny enclave to Iran and allied Arab groups. Hamas' deadly attack on southern Israel six days ago — unprecedented for the group in its planning and scale — was a devastating demonstration of the military expertise it has gained since seizing control of Gaza in 2007. «Necessity is the mother of invention,» said Ali Baraka, a senior Hamas official, adding that the group had long drawn on money and training from Iran and Iranian regional proxies like Lebanon's Hezbollah, while bolstering its own forces in Gaza.

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reported that Citi is also planning to trim 30 investment banking jobs and 20 corporate ones at its London unit to deal with adverse market conditions,. The company is aiming to reduce its cost base to deal with current market conditions.

Reuters reported citing US media reports. The Swedish Academy, responsible for Nobel Prize selection, praised Louise Gluck's poetry for its unreserved examination of family and childhood using a distinct and austere beauty.

Automotive News executive editor Jamie Butters discusses the expansion of the UAW strikes and its impact on car buyers.

Investing.com — “Never a dull moment in the oilfield,” oil services firm Panther says on its website. By that extension, of course, are the oil markets, which seldom go a day, or even hours, without drama.

France city of Arras on Friday that President Emmanuel Macron condemned as «barbaric Islamic terrorism.» Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said France was now on its highest state of alert and that the Arras attack bore a link to events in the Middle East, where Israel is conducting a military offensive to root out Hamas fighters after their deadly rampage. Only a day earlier, Macron had urged the French to remain united and refrain from bringing the Israel-Hamas conflict home. Visiting the site of the attack, Macron paid his respects to the dead teacher, whose body still lay under a cover surrounded by a pool of blood. "(He) stepped in and undoubtedly saved a lot of lives himself," Macron said. «Our choice is made not to give in to terror, not to let anything divide us.» The suspect, who has been arrested, was a former student of the Lycee Gambetta high school where the attack happened, a police source said.

ALSO READ: NASA’s first asteroid sample has landed that may give clues about Earth's enemies in outer space The launch, shown live on NASA TV, marks the latest in a series of recent NASA missions seeking insights about the origins of our planet about 4.5 billion years ago by sending robotic spacecraft to explore asteroids - primordial relics from the dawn of the solar system. NASA said that asteroid Psyche measures roughly 173 miles (279 km) across at its widest point.

One Reuters journalist has been killed and two others injured in southern Lebanon, the news wire service says.

AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden's prayers are with families of a Reuters news videographer who was killed while working in southern Lebanon, White House spokesperson Olivia Dalton told reporters on Friday.

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) — Nordic and Baltic seismologists said that they had detected blast-like waves on Sunday when a Baltic Sea gas pipeline ruptured but that the data was not strong enough to determine whether explosives were involved.

The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.4% in September, keeping the annual rate at 3.7%, the same as in August, while economists polled by Reuters had forecast it would gain 0.3% on the month and 3.6% year-on-year. «The data will keep the Fed on its toes,» said Nicholas Van Ness, U.S.

The government has launched the park to bolster the e-CNY ecosystem and payment solutions using the digital yuan. Residents are incentivised to move to the park for up to three years of free rent and loans. Commercial banks are being offered up to 20 million yuan to settle there, and start ups are offered up to 50 million yuan.

International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over potential war crimes carried out by Hamas militants in Israel and Israelis in the Gaza Strip, even though Israel is not a member state, the ICC's top prosecutor told Reuters on Thursday. The occupied Palestinian territories including the Gaza Strip fall under the jurisdiction of the ICC, meaning the court has the authority to prosecute Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza. «If there is evidence that Palestinians, whether they're Hamas or Al Quds Brigades or the armed wing of Hamas or any other person or any other national of any other state party, has committed crimes. Yes, we have jurisdiction wherever they're committed, including on the territory of Israel,» ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said in an interview. In his first comments since Hamas launched brutal attacks on Israel on Saturday and Israel responded with devastating bombings of the Gaza Strip, he said the images are «heartbreaking».