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Israel Orders New Evacuations in Northern Gaza as U.N. Suspends Food Deliveries
[ad_1] Israel’s military ordered two neighborhoods of Gaza City to evacuate on Tuesday amid signs of hunger and mounting desperation in the northern part of the enclave at a time when the focus of Israel’s offensive has shifted south. The evacuations came as the World Food Program halted deliveries in the north on Tuesday, describing scenes of chaos as its…
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Russian Pilot Who Defected to Ukraine Is Believed Dead in Spain
[ad_1] Maksim Kuzminov pulled off a daring escape last summer when he defected to Ukraine and handed his military helicopter over to Ukrainian commandos in exchange for half a million dollars. Ukraine trumpeted the defection as a major coup. But in Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia, he was guilty of the most grievous sin anyone can commit: Treason. Ukrainian intelligence officials…
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Protesting Polish Farmers Block Much of Ukraine’s Western Border
[ad_1] As the war continued to rage in Ukraine’s east, much of its Western border was blocked on Tuesday by another fight, this one with Polish farmers. The farmers have for months been protesting an influx of Ukrainian products that they say is crowding the Polish market and undercutting their livelihood. On Tuesday, they obstructed check points for commercial transportation,…
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South Africa Calls Israeli Policies Toward Palestinians ‘Apartheid’
[ad_1] new video loaded: South Africa Calls Israeli Policies Toward Palestinians ‘Apartheid’ transcript Back transcript South Africa Calls Israeli Policies Toward Palestinians ‘Apartheid’ South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands recalled his country’s history of racial discrimination during a hearing at the International Court of Justice on the legality of Israeli policies in Palestinian territories. We as South Africans sense, see,…
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Yulia Navalnaya’s X Account Is Suspended and Then Restored
[ad_1] The social media platform X temporarily suspended on Tuesday an account created by Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Aleksei A. Navalny, and then restored it, saying it had been mistakenly flagged by its automated security protocols. Ms. Navalnaya opened the account on Monday to announce that she would continue her husband’s work advocating for a free, peaceful and democratic…
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At UN Court Hearing, South Africa Says Palestinians Endure ‘More Extreme Form of Apartheid’
[ad_1] South Africa said Tuesday that Israel’s policies toward Palestinians were “a more extreme form of apartheid,” invoking its charged history of racial discrimination to add to global pressure on Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The court, the United Nations’ highest judicial body, is hearing six days of arguments over Israel’s “occupation, settlement and annexation”…
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Russia Arrests U.S. Citizen, Accusing Her of Treason by Aiding Ukraine
[ad_1] Russia’s main security agency said on Tuesday that it had arrested a dual citizen of Russia and the United States on accusations of committing state treason by raising funds for Ukraine. The Federal Security Service, known as the F.S.B., identified the detainee as a 33-year-old woman who lives in Los Angeles. It said in a statement that she had…
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Yulia Navalnaya, Aleksei Navalny’s Widow, Takes Center Stage
[ad_1] It was August 2020, and Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Russia’s most famous opposition leader, was striding through the battered, gloomy hallways of a provincial Russian hospital, looking for the room where her husband lay in a coma. Aleksei A. Navalny had collapsed after being given what German medical investigators would later declare was a near-fatal dose of the…
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U.S. Prepares UN Resolution Supporting Temporary Cease-Fire: Israel-Hamas War Live Updates
[ad_1] Within weeks of President Biden imposing financial sanctions on Israelis accused of violent assaults in the occupied West Bank, crowdfunding campaigns on behalf of two of the men had collected the equivalent of more than $170,000. Far-right Israelis pledged the funds in a show of support for the settlers, whose efforts to exert Israeli control over lands in the…
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He Showed the World Gaza’s Suffering. But ‘Nothing Changed.’
[ad_1] When war broke out in Gaza on Oct.7, Motaz Azaiza, a Palestinian photographer, turned his camera to covering pain and loss in a territory under siege. In doing so, he attracted millions of followers — documenting the war while also trying to survive it. [ad_2] Source link
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