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The Buenos Aires Yoga School promised spiritual salvation, but former members and prosecutors say it pushed some female members into prostitution as it cultivated powerful friends.

A star-studded concert pulled out all the stops to celebrate one of the country’s most important art forms.

An uneasy stalemate exists in the South Pacific territory as Paris continues to enforce a nightly curfew and a ban on the sale of alcohol.

The Israeli military said it killed militants in the central part of the enclave on Friday, a day after a strike on a former school, where Gazan officials say civilians were killed.

Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, inundated by a rapidly rising casualty count, is so full that the crowds themselves are hampering treatment.

The Israeli military said it had targeted Hamas operatives at a U.N.-run school complex. Palestinian officials said the dead included women and children.

The Israeli military said it had been targeting militants who were hiding in the complex in an effort to evade attack. The former U.N. school was housing 6,000 displaced Gazans.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters were hiding inside three classrooms, a military spokesman said.

Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.