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The Pentagon on Tuesday said Gazan civilians have not yet received any of the aid unloaded from the humanitarian pier that the United States constructed off the coast of Gaza.

Crowds of Palestinians swarmed aid convoys in the Gaza Strip this weekend, blocking the delivery of aid from a U.S.-built pier on the coast.

Tones varied from insightful to uproarious as winemakers shared their stories during last Thursday’s Wine and Words fundraiser benefiting the Friends & Foundation, St. Helena Public Library.

The U.S. $320 million pier off the coast of Gaza is poised to fail unless Israel can secure food shipments from looters, says the U.N. World Food Program. Recent aid truck convoys were stripped of all their goods before they could reach a warehouse in central Gaza.

Russia has launched a likely space weapon and deployed it in the same orbit as a US government satellite, the Pentagon said. "Russia launched a satellite

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Ambassador Robert Wood alluded to the suspected Russian space weapon launch in remarks at the U.N. Security Council.

U.S.-Russia tensions rise as Russia launches suspected counterspace weapon against U.S. satellite. U.S. monitoring and assessing the situation.

Lawmakers and former diplomats say the U.S. should allow strikes in Russia with American weaponry

The United Nations said that only five of 16 trucks made it to the warehouses in Gaza.