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An Israeli raid targeting alleged militants in a West Bank flashpoint killed three Palestinians Wednesday, including the brother of a man blamed for a deadly attack in Tel Aviv. The violence was the latest to hit Jenin, in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an area that has seen near daily clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen since an escalation that began in March.  The Palestinian health ministry recorded three dead and 44 wounded by live fire in the latest Israeli operation. Among them was Abed Hazem, whose brother Raad was named as the killer of three Israelis in a shooting spree in Tel Aviv's busy nightlife district in April. Raad Hazem was shot dead after a massive Israeli manhunt. Israeli forces have been pursuing Abed and Raad's father Fathi for months.  The army only immediately confirmed two deaths during an operation it said targeted "two suspects involved in a number of recent shooting attacks". -- AFP

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Washington will operate "undaunted and unafraid" throughout Asia, including the Taiwan Strait, US Vice President Kamala Harris says as she addressed American troops in Japan. Speaking after attending Tuesday's funeral for assassinated former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe, Harris accused China of "disturbing behaviour" in the East China Sea and South China Sea and "provocations across the Taiwan Strait". "The United States believes that peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait is an essential feature of a free and open Indo-Pacific," she says, using Washington's term for the Asia-Pacific region. — AFP

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It will be "difficult" for NASA to make a new attempt to launch its massive Moon rocket in October, an official from the US space agency says, with a lift-off in November looking more likely.  The SLS rocket, the most powerful ever designed by NASA, had to be returned overnight to its storage hangar in order to shelter it from the approach of Hurricane Ian.  The next possible launch windows -- determined according to the positions of the Earth and the Moon -- are from October 17 to 31, then from November 12 to 27. — AFP 

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The UN reaffirms its commitment to Ukraine's "territorial integrity", as pro-Moscow authorities in several parts of the war-torn nation claimed victory in annexation votes condemned internationally as a sham. "The United Nations remains fully committed to the sovereignty, unity, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, within its internationally recognized borders," Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo tells a meeting of the UN Security Council.   Addressing the meeting by video link, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky once more denounced the ballots hastily organized in Russian-occupied regions -- Donetsk and Lugansk in the east and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south. — AFP

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Twitter and Elon Musk spar in court, each digging for evidence to prevail in a high-stakes trial next month over the billionaire's bid to break his buyout deal. Musk has been keen to find evidence to back his accusation that Twitter misled regulators and investors about what portion of accounts are actually spam or software "bots," as well as its key measures regarding growth. Twitter, which has sued Musk to force him to complete the $44 billion buyout deal, seeks material or testimony to prove he is contriving excuses to walk away because he changed his mind. — AFP

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