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Stories from Israel, the USA, Thailand and Chad.

Palestinians who hold Israeli passports make up around a fifth of the country’s population, and have rarely been involved in any violent conflict with Israeli Jews. But as rocket fire was exchanged between Israel and Gaza last month, Jewish and Arab mobs took to the streets of Israel’s mixed cities - attacking passers-by, looting shops, vandalising property and desecrating religious sites. Yolande Knell finds that in Jaffa, divisions have opened up that will be hard to heal:

Joe Biden may have been globetrotting these past few weeks, but inside the United States there are still plenty who do not accept that he really is their president. Despite investigations which have uncovered no evidence for it, they believe that the presidential contest was stolen. Gabriel Gatehouse went to a meeting in Texas, where these dissenting voices found a willing audience.

There was a point last year when street protests in Thailand were seen as a threat to the government, and even to the country’s widely-revered monarchy. Tens of thousands of people gathered on the streets of the capital, Bangkok, and in many other cities, defying attempts by the police to disperse them. One year on, however, the protests have fizzled out, with many of their leaders put in jail. Jonathan Head asks why their uprising failed.

There’s a new government in the central African country of Chad. Idris Deby, the military ruler who was in power for nearly thirty years is dead, reportedly killed on the battlefield. Now his son has been installed as a replacement – he too is a general. Meanwhile, ordinary Chadians are fed up with the lack of drinking water, and inadequate roads, schools, and hospitals. Mayeni Jones went to meet a senior member of the new government, and discovered he was far from shy about showing off his own remarkable wealth.

(Image: View over Jaffa. Credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)