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The vote comes after the United States last month vetoed a Security Council measure granting full U.N. membership to a Palestinian state.

Gross domestic product increased 0.6 percent in the first quarter, after shrinking the two previous quarters.

The Biden administration says it is still waiting to see a detailed plan for how Israeli forces plan to evacuate civilians from the city of Rafah.

A Pentagon spokesman said bad weather had made it impossible to install a new floating pier and causeway.

No trucks have entered the Gaza Strip since Sunday, according to the U.N.

Analysts say Ukraine is trying to disrupt the Russian military’s logistical routes and combat operations by targeting the facilities that supply fuel for its tanks, ships and fighter jets.

The British home secretary, James Cleverly, accused Russia’s domestic intelligence agency of a pattern of “malign activity” in Britain and Europe.

The measure, which must still be signed into law, echoes a practice used by Russia, which has drafted tens of thousands of inmates into the war.

Comments from Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III in a Senate hearing signaled the kind of leverage the United States can use to influence Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza.

The group — the largest set of Americans retrieved from the war zone — was joined by a 9-year-old noncitizen whose brother is an American.