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          Israel considered its options after Iran’s attack
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          Israel showed signs that it would not immediately retaliate
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          Israel’s war cabinet met yesterday without deciding when or how to respond to the assault. But officials said they would relax restrictions on large gatherings and educational activities, a possible indication that they did not expect an immediate escalation.
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          Iran’s attack, in retaliation for an Israeli strike that
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          in Syria, represented a moment of great risk, because it was the first time it had
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          in the two nations’ long shadow war. But it caused little damage, largely because Iran had telegraphed its intentions well in advance.
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          “The matter can be deemed concluded,” Iran’s mission to the U.N. said in a statement yesterday. “However, should the Israeli regime make another mistake, Iran’s response will be considerably more severe.”
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          International response:
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          President Biden reached out to Israel
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          to discourage further escalation, fearing a wider war in the Middle East;
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          Group of 7 leaders condemned Iran’s attack
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          , but also urged restraint.
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          In Gaza,
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          three people said
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          Israeli troops fired at a crowd of people trying to return to their homes
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          in the enclave’s north. The Palestinian Authority’s news agency said five people were killed, but the circumstances of the deaths could not be confirmed independently, and the Israeli military did not immediately respond to questions about the incident.
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              Donald Trump, accustomed to the White House and his Florida estate, will spend days in a dingy Manhattan courthouse.
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          Jury selection begins today in Donald Trump’s
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          , a first for an American ex-president.
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          Manhattan prosecutors, who have accused Trump of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal, have advantages that include insider witnesses and a jury pool drawn from one of the most liberal counties in the U.S. Mr. Trump and some aides and lawyers privately concede that the jury is unlikely to acquit him outright, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.
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          So Trump is seeking to write his own reality, telling a story that he believes could pave his return to the White House in November. He has framed his failed efforts to delay the case as evidence that he cannot receive a fair trial, casting himself as a political martyr under attack from the prosecution and the judge.
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          Win or lose, Trump will be the first presidential candidate whose
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          , before being decided by millions of voters, will be shaped by 12 people in a jury box. Here’s
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              A memorial at a mall in Bondi Junction, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, on Sunday, the day after a man with a knife killed six people there.
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          A stabbing rampage shocked Australia
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          One of the deadliest mass killings in Australia’s recent history
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          A knife-wielding man at a mall in a Sydney suburb stabbed nearly 20 people, including a 9-month-old girl. Six people died, including the baby’s mother. The attacker — whose motives remained unclear — was shot and killed by a police officer, the authorities said.
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          “These things don’t happen in Australia,” said Kristie Spong, 54, who had been to the mall with her daughter a few days earlier and returned Sunday to lay flowers at a memorial.
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