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Israel orders partial Rafah evacuation; Xi meets Macron, and more
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Israel said it had begun ordering 100,000 people in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza, to evacuate to a nearby Israel-declared humanitarian zone. Also, Xi Jinping arrived at the Élysée Palace in Paris for talks with Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen.
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