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The World in Brief from The Economist
Israel vows to continue Rafah operation; Xi to visit Serbia, and more
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Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said that the country’s war cabinet had “unanimously decided” to “continue its operation” in Rafah. Also, Xi Jinping published a letter in a Serbian newspaper condemning NATO’s bombing of China’s embassy in Belgrade in 1999.
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