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This could have been a good week for Donald Trump, in which the U.S. president could have chalked up a political win over the Democrats with the end of the government shutdown. But any gloating time was short-lived, overshadowed by the spectre of Jeffrey Epstein and Trump's past connection to the late convicted sex offender.
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Violent attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank are at a record high, the United Nations says, making it perilous to carry out the economically crucial harvest.
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Palestinians see the violence, and its tolerance by right-wing Israeli officialdom, as part of a broader campaign to harass them and make life so unbearable that they will abandon their villages.
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