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Monitor Daily Podcast

August 07, 2024
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Amelia Newcomb
Senior editor

Amid high-level diplomacy and discourse about a widening conflict in the Middle East, it’s easy to overlook the very real people on the ground, the ones trying to navigate a fight they have little true voice in. Today we talk with some of them – both Israelis and Palestinians waiting and watching warily as they shop for Shabbat dinners in Tel Aviv and move ahead with wedding plans in the West Bank. Like those we talked to in Gaza earlier this year, they are doing their best to live as normally as possible in distressingly abnormal times.


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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris holds a campaign rally with her newly announced running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in Philadelphia on Aug. 6, 2024.

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Far-right rioters throw a flaming garbage bin toward a hotel housing foreign asylum-seekers in Rotherham, England, Aug. 4, 2024.
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John Woods, director of Allston Brighton Community Development Corp., stands in front of Hill Memorial Baptist Church, July 11. The church and grounds will be turned into a housing complex for older adults.

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People shake hands at a mosque during riots in Liverpool, Britain, Aug. 2.

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Enomoto Haruka of Japan dives during the women’s 3 m springboard preliminary at the Paris Olympics, Aug. 7, 2024. The top 18 divers advance, meaning that Ms. Enomoto, who ranked sixth, will compete in the semifinal.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

We hope you enjoyed today’s stories. Tomorrow, keep an eye out for our report from Bangladesh. Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate, will be sworn in as the country’s transitional leader in the wake of the former prime minister’s hasty exit from power. 

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