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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday said it was reviewing a response by the Islamist Hamas militant group to a ceasefire and hostage release proposal, as it continued to press Israel to halt plans for a ground invasion of Rafah.

Hamas earlier said in a brief statement that its chief, Ismail Haniyeh, had informed Qatari and Egyptian mediators that the group accepted their proposal for a ceasefire.

CIA Director Williams Burns... (continue reading...)

By Hollie Adams

OXFORD (Reuters) - British students set up pro-Palestinian protest encampments on Oxford and Cambridge universities' historic campuses on a cloudy spring Monday, in a show of solidarity with their American peers.

By early morning, students had erected dozens of brightly coloured tents on the lawns outside the relatively dull, yellow, 19th-century neo-Gothic Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

By Carolina Mandl

Beverly Hills (Reuters) - Ken Griffin, Citadel's founder and chief executive, said on Monday that he is unsure when the Federal Reserve may be able to cut interest rates this year, but it may come in December.

Speaking at the Milken conference, Griffin said two factors may make it more difficult for the Fed to cut rates soon: stickier inflation in services and the U.S. presidential elections in November.

By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) -People who carry two copies of the APOE4 gene are virtually guaranteed to develop Alzheimer's and face symptoms at an earlier age, researchers reported on Monday in a study that could redefine such carriers as having a new genetic form of the mind-wasting disease.

The reclassification could change Alzheimer's research, diagnosis and approaches to treatment, according to the researchers, whose study was... (continue reading...)

By Shivam Patel

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he does not oppose Islam or Muslims and wants the community to think about their future growth as they vote in an ongoing general election that completes its third phase on Tuesday.

Modi's critics accuse him and his party of targeting minority Muslims for electoral gains and the allegations grew after Modi referred to Muslims in a recent speech as... (continue reading...)