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JERUSALEM, unidentified — Israel was taken by surprise when hundreds of Hamas militants stormed across the border from Gaza on Saturday and killed hundreds while abducting around another 150.
MANILA, Philippines – World Boxing Council (WBC) minimumweight champion Melvin Jerusalem will put his title on the line in the Philippines against undefeated Mexican Luis Castillo in September.
MANILA, Philippines — The country’s only reigning world boxing champion Melvin Jerusalem is mandated to stake his WBC minimumweight crown against No. 1 contender Luis Castillo of Mexico and MP Promotions head Sean Gibbons said yesterday he’s moving mountains to set the defense tentatively on Sept. 7 in Manila or General Santos City or Masbate or anywhere in the Philippines.
JERUSALEM, undefined — Days after Israel announced a daily pause in fighting on a key route to allow more aid into Gaza, chaos in the besieged Palestinian territory has left vital supplies piled up and undistributed in the searing summer heat.
CAIRO, Egypt — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was heading back to the Middle East on Monday to push a ceasefire plan, but Israeli politics and silence from Hamas raised further questions on whether he can succeed.
BACOLOD CITY, Philippines — Israel is looking for more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) amid hundreds of repatriations and the war in Gaza.
JERUSALEM — An aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Sunday that Israel had accepted a framework deal for winding down the Gaza war now being advanced by US President Joe Biden, though he described it as flawed and in need of much more work. In an interview with Britain’s Sunday Times, Ophir Falk, chief foreign policy advisor to Netanyahu, said Biden’s proposal was “a deal we agreed to — it’s not a good deal but we dearly want the hostages released, all of them.” “There are a lot of details to be worked out,” he said, adding that Israeli conditions, including “the release of the hostages and the destruction of Hamas as a genocidal terrorist organization” have not changed. Biden, whose initial lockstep support for Israel’s offensive has given way to open censure of the operation’s high civilian death toll, on Friday aired what he described as a three-phase plan submitted by the Netanyahu government to end the war. The first phase entails a truce and the return of some hostages held by Hamas, after which the sides would negotiate on an open-ended cessation of hostilities for a second phase in which remaining live captives would go free, Biden said. That sequencing appears to imply that Hamas would continue to play a role in incremental arrangements mediated by Egypt and Qatar – a potential clash with Israel’s determination to resume the campaign to eliminate the Iranian-backed Islamist group. Biden has hailed several ceasefire proposals over the past several months, each with similar frameworks to the one he outlined on Friday, all of which collapsed. In February he said Israel had agreed to halt fighting by Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that began on March 10.
JERUSALEM, undefined — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday insisted on Hamas's destruction as part of an Israeli plan presented by US President Joe Biden to end the Gaza war.
CEBU, Philippines — Sila si basketball superstar June Mar Fajardo, world boxing champion Melvin Jerusalem, ug karting sensation William John Riley Go nga nanghawod sa kalibutanhong bantawan nagsawo sa dungog isip "Athletes of the Year" atol sa malampuson nga 38th Sportswriters Association of Cebu-San Miguel Beer (SAC-SMB) Cebu Sports Awards niatong Domingo, Mayo 26, didto sa The Terraces sa Ayala Center Cebu.