Major shift

US Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two as she departs from Ellington Airport in Houston, Texas, on Thursday (Friday in Manila). Harris is returning to Washington, DC after delivering remarks at a teachers’ union event. In an earlier meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Harris called for the establishment of a Palestinian state and, similar to Biden, urged both Netanyahu and Hamas to agree to a ceasefire and hostage release deal to end the war sparked by Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. AFP