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    Graduates Stage Protest at University of Michigan Commencement

    Demonstrators gathered and chanted briefly at the start of the commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan on Saturday. Photo: Nic Antaya/Getty Images

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    Israeli forces kill Hamas gunmen in West Bank raid

    STORY: Israeli forces killed five Palestinians in an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank, including four fighters from the militant group Hamas.That’s according to Israeli and Palestinian officials on Saturday.Hamas confirmed that four of the men killed during the raid near the city of Tulkarm were from its al-Qassam armed wing. The Palestinian health ministry said their bodies had been taken by the Israeli military.There was no information about the fifth man, whose body was too disfigured for immediate identification.During the raid, the Israeli army leveled a two-story house with a bulldozer in an operation that lasted more than 12 hours.According to Palestinian Health Ministry records, nearly 500 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or Jewish settlers in the West Bank or East Jerusalem since Oct. 7.That’s when Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and abducting 252 others, according to Israeli tallies. Health authorities in the Hamas-ruled enclave say more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's seven-month-old assault on the Gaza Strip. Palestinians want the West Bank and Gaza, which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war, as the core of an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.U.S.-backed talks to reach an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians have been stalled for the past decade but the Gaza war has raised pressure for a revival of efforts to reach a two-state solution.

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    Toddler rescued from roof top in deadly Brazil floods

    STORY: A video shared on Instagram by the army's aviation command showed an officer hitting the roof of the house with a brick to rescue the child and pull him to safety. Reuters blurred the toddler's face to protect his identity.The toddler and his relatives were trapped in the floods in Lajeado, in southern Brazil.Heavy rains in the state have left dozens of people dead and missing. More than 32,000 have been displaced with storms affecting hundreds of cities in the state which borders Uruguay and Argentina.