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Residents, plantation workers, and security officials gather around a large charred metallic fragment, suspected to be rocket debris, at an oil palm plantation in East Kotawaringin Regency, in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province. Indonesian authorities were investigating after a piece of rocket the size of a car crashed into an oil palm plantation on Indonesian Borneo.

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Benjamin Netanyahu sought for weeks to orchestrate a new air strike on Iran but ran into resistance from the military.

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Gadi Eisenkot greets supporters during a campaign rally on Sunday.
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Australia’s two-state solution is dismissed in Israel

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