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forces in the war against Iran.Three suspicious vehicles were stopped near the base, and investigators are examining several possible motives and connections.President Trump says he rejected an Iranian offer for a seven-day pause in fighting and an immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran had sought relief from the U.S.naval blockade on its oil exports and access to billions of dollars frozen abroad in exchange for reopening the waterway.CNN is back in the White House TV pool after a dayslong dispute over press access.
The pause meant major moments, including Trump's U.N.appearance and Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit, went without the usual pooled television coverage.Mass shootings across South Africa have killed 38 people in recent days.
The attacks in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban struck a restaurant, tavern and house party, and police have not announced motives in the latest cases.Born in 1947, the year before Israel's creation, Sliman Mansour said he didn't always think of himself as Palestinian."In the early 1970s, I started to discover I'm a Palestinian," he told NPR.
"So my art took a 90-degree turn." Living under Israeli occupation, he said, made politics impossible to escape.But he also believed beauty was part of how art reached people: "If you don't speak to the hearts of the people, if you don't speak to the feelings of the people, then you don't reach people." Beauty, he said, was "an important way to reach these hearts."Mansour died on Aug.
24 at 79 and was buried in Bir Zeit, in the occupied West Bank, near the olive groves of his ancestors.Listen to an in-person interview with him, and see some of the art here.Being a parent can be overstimulating.
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