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will have to send troops into rafah, the city in the southern gaza, to achieve its war aims of eliminating hamas. he has been briefing a government committee in which he acknowleged his difference with the white house on that, not on the objective, per se, more on the means. that much is clear. president biden has been firm in his belief that a full scale of invasion of rafah would be a disaster. the white house has invited key security officials to washington to discuss the strategy probably early next week . here s what the us national security adviser said ahead of that meeting. the president has rejected, and did again today, the strawman that raising questions about rafah is the same as raising questions about defeating hamas. that sjust nonsense. our position is that hamas should not be allowed a safe haven in rafah or anywhere else, but a major ground operation there would be a mistake. the un human rights chief, volker turk, warned today israel could be using starvat ....
and zambia has been seen by many as a test case for how well the common framework works. but despite protracted negotiations, the zambia debt relief deal has collapsed, raising doubts about the workability of the common framework. zambia s president hakainde hichilema, who inherited a huge debt overhang when he was elected in 2021 has been spearheading efforts to get the country s economy back on track. i spoke to the zambian president in an exclusive interview and began by asking him about the economy. i think we did our part as a country in terms of meeting our obligations. we did that well ahead of time. now it is for the other part of the stick to come on board. the bilateral creditors, i think we are doing reasonably well. delayed? yes, it was delayed. but the private creditors, we now need to close and put this to bed so that it can create the headroom we needed, we anticipated long before. but these delays are beginning to negate the gains that we already mad ....