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Ravi Nessman

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Nessman is director of global text for The Associated Press. He has covered major news stories in the United States, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
An Israeli soldier on top a tank on the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Sunday, Sunday, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Netanyahu snaps back against growing US criticism after being accused of losing his way on Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sharply protesting against growing criticism from top ally the United States over his leadership amid the war with Hamas.
 
Israeli soldiers are seen near the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel, Monday, March 4, 2024. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Israel escalates its criticism of a UN agency in Gaza. It says 450 of its workers are militants
Israel has ramped up its criticism of the embattled U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. It said Monday that 450 employees of UNRWA were members of militant groups in the Gaza Strip, though it provided no evidence to back up its accusation.
 
A woman, with a photograph of a child who was abducted during the unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel, hands out yellow ribbons to passing drivers in central Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Yellow ribbons is the symbol for those who are actively asking for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Many Israelis are furious at their government’s chaotic recovery efforts after Hamas attack
More than two weeks after Hamas’ attack, many Israelis are furious at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, not just for failing to prevent the initial attack, but for failing to come to their aid afterward.
 
Palestinians inspect the damage of a destroyed house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)
Israeli airstrikes surge in Gaza, destroying homes and killing dozens at a time
The toll represents a massive increase in casualties in the already reeling territory. Israel has been striking Gaza since Hamas militants attacked southern Israeli towns on Oct. 7.
 
Palestinians look for survivers in buildings destroyed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
Second aid convoy reaches Gaza as Israel attacks targets in Syria and occupied West Bank
The second aid convoy destined for desperate Palestinian civilians reached Gaza as Israel widened its attacks to include targets in Syria and the occupied West Bank.
 
An Israel soldier gestures to passers-by as he drives a military vehicle near the border between Israel and Gaza Strip, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Gaza awaits aid from Egypt as Israel readies troops for ground assault
Israel’s defense minister has told ground troops to be ready to enter the Gaza Strip, though he didn’t say when the invasion will start.
 
Palestinians carry belongings as they leave al-Ahli hospital, which they were using as a shelter, in Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. The Hamas-run Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike caused the explosion that killed hundreds at al-Ahli hospital, but the Israeli military says it was a misfired Palestinian rocket. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)
Israel will let Egypt deliver some aid to Gaza, as doctors struggle to treat hospital blast victims
Israel says will allow Egypt to deliver limited quantities of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the first crack in a 10-day seal on the territory.
 
Wounded Palestinians wait for treatment in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, after arriving from al-Ahli hospital following an explosion there, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. The Hamas-run Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike caused the explosion that killed hundreds at al-Ahli, but the Israeli military says it was a misfired Palestinian rocket. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)
After blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital, Hamas and Israel trade blame as rage spreads in region
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says a massive blast hit a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter, killing hundreds of people.
 
At al-Aqsa hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, a Palestinian woman reacts next to the wounded during an Israeli airstrike, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
Gaza hospitals are overwhelmed with patients and desperately low on supplies as invasion looms
Medics in Gaza are warning that thousands could die as hospitals packed with wounded people run desperately low on fuel and basic supplies.
 
Palestinians clash with Israeli forces at the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Palestinians go on strike as Israel-Hamas fighting rages
Palestinians across Israel and the occupied territories went on strike in a rare collective protest of Israel’s policies.
 
A man inspects the rubble of destroyed commercial building and Gaza health care clinic following an Israeli airstrike on the upper floors of a commercial building near the Health Ministry in Gaza City, on Monday, May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
Israel strikes Gaza tunnels as truce efforts remain elusive
The Israeli military has unleashed another heavy wave of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, and says it has destroyed militant tunnels and the homes of nine Hamas commanders.
 
A woman reacts while standing near the rubble of a building that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on Saturday that housed The Associated Press, broadcaster Al-Jazeera and other media outlets, in Gaza City, Sunday, May 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
Israeli warplanes stage more heavy strikes across Gaza City
Israeli warplanes have staged another series of heavy airstrikes in Gaza City hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled the fourth war with Gaza’s Hamas rulers would rage on.
 
FILE - In this Nov. 11 2020, file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves after a function at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters following a state election in New Delhi, India. Despite clear signs that India was being swamped by another surge of coronavirus infections, Modi refused to cancel campaign rallies, a major Hindu festival and cricket matches with spectators. The crisis has badly dented Modi’s carefully cultivated image as an able technocrat. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
India’s virus surge damages Modi’s image of competence
Despite clear signs India was being swamped by another surge of coronavirus infections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government refused to cancel a major Hindu festival and held election rallies with thousands of unmasked supporters.
 
Dreamers work to create huge new park in Delhi
NEW DELHI (AP) — In a tangle of forgotten, overgrown brush in the heart of India’s capital, a quiet plan has been hatched to change the landscape of one of the world’s most populous cities.
 
Dreamers work to create huge new park in Delhi
NEW DELHI (AP) — In a tangle of forgotten, overgrown brush in the heart of India’s capital, a quiet plan has been hatched to change the landscape of one of the world’s most populous cities.
 
AP Exclusive: More Bangladesh factories dangerous
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladeshi garment factories are routinely built without consulting engineers.
 
For India’s poor, a school under a railway bridge
NEW DELHI (AP) — Their classroom is a flattened patch of dirt and rocks under the elevated rail tracks.
 
Professor on quest for India’s hidden inventors
SEHORE, India (AP) — It’s 43 degrees Celsius (110 F), and Prof. Anil Gupta has been hiking the scorched plains of central India for hours.
 
Professor on quest for India’s hidden inventors
SEHORE, India (AP) — It’s 43 degrees Celsius (110 F), and Prof. Anil Gupta has been hiking the scorched plains of central India for hours.
 
State election has big implications for all India
SITAPUR, India (AP) — One of India’s most powerful and controversial politicians rises from a throne-like armchair, a clutch of candidates standing deferentially behind her and two large portraits flanking the stage.
 
Indian Telecommunications Minister Kapil Sibal addresses a press conference in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Sibal said that Internet giants such as Facebook and Google have ignored his demands to screen derogatory material from their sites, so the government would have to take action on its own. The dispute highlights India's ongoing difficulty in balancing the Internet culture of freewheeling discourse with its homegrown religious and political sensitivities. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)
India wants websites to screen derogatory content
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top telecommunications official said Tuesday that Internet giants such as Facebook and Google have ignored his demands to screen derogatory material from their sites, so the government would have to act on its own.
 
London Olympics under fire for Dow Chemical ties
LONDON (AP) — Just a few months ago, Dow Chemical was hailed by the organizers of the London Olympics for saving a visual centerpiece — an artistic wrap around Olympic Stadium.
 
Bhutan’s ‘Idol’ rocks dragon lutes, Buddhist hymns
THIMPHU, Bhutan (AP) — The musician strummed his dragon-headed lute, launching a nervous young woman into a high-pitched, ululating song broadcast live across the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
 
War refugees interned in camps built by donors
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — In just six months, one of the world’s largest camps for war refugees has been carved out of the jungles of northern Sri Lanka, complete with banks, post offices, schools and a supermarket.
 
Sri Lankan editor points finger from the grave
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Lasantha Wickrematunge, a prominent Sri Lankan journalist and outspoken critic of the government’s war on ethnic Tamil rebels, knew he was marked for death — and thought he knew why.
 
Sri Lanka says rebel group on brink of defeat, AS
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — When Hamilton Wanasinghe was Sri Lanka’s military chief in the early 1990s, he tried to buy desperately needed weapons from Russia to fight the Tamil Tiger rebels.
 
India terror begins with corpses on train platform
MUMBAI, India (AP) _ 9:21 p.m. Wednesday, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus __ Two young men walk casually through Mumbai’s main railway station, a worn Victorian hulk bustling with late commuters heading home, scurrying past small food stands and juice bars and vendors selling newspapers.