Arab League summit kicks off in Baghdad with Gaza at the top of the agenda

BAGHDAD (AP) — Regional leaders were to meet in Baghdad on Saturday at the annual summit of the Arab League, with the war in Gaza expected to once again loom large. In March, at an emergency summit in Cairo, Arab leaders endorsed a proposed plan for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip without displacing its roughly 2 million residents. Saturday’s summit comes two months after after Israel ended a ceasefire reached with the Hamas militant group in J…