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From Lebanon to the Red Sea, a Broader Conflict With Iran Looms
[ad_1] President Biden and his top national security aides believed last summer that the chances of conflict with Iran and its proxies were well contained. After secret talks, they had just concluded a deal that led to the release of five imprisoned Americans in return for $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds and some Iranian prisoners. The militants that Tehran…
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Monday Briefing: Bangladesh’s Troubled Election
[ad_1] Bangladesh voted amid crackdowns and boycotts Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh was nearly guaranteed a fourth consecutive term in office as voting ended in a low-turnout election yesterday. Security remained tight as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the main opposition, boycotted the election as unfair and pushed for a nationwide strike. In the days leading up to the vote,…
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Dignified burials have become another casualty in Gaza.
[ad_1] For four days, Kareem Sabawi’s body lay wrapped in a blanket in a cold, empty apartment as his family sheltered nearby. He was killed during intense Israeli bombardment near his family home, his father and mother said, and in the days that followed, it was too dangerous to step outside and lay their 10-year-old child to rest. His family…
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Blinken Continues His Middle East Tour in Hopes of Reducing Tensions
[ad_1] Antony J. Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, held meetings on Sunday with leaders in Jordan and Qatar as part of a weeklong eastern Mediterranean and Middle East tour aimed at reducing the risk that the war in Gaza could spread in the region. Mr. Blinken met separately in Amman with King Abdullah II and Ayman Safadi, Jordan’s foreign…
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West Bank Violence Rises as Israel Vows to Wipe Out Hamas in Gaza
[ad_1] As the war in the Gaza Strip ended its third month on Sunday , with top diplomats touring the region to try to stop the conflict from spreading, Israel said it had broken up Hamas’s command structure in northern Gaza and signaled that it would not change its objective of dismantling the group’s capabilities across the ravaged territory. “The…
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A Small-Town Stabbing Takes On a Larger Significance for France
[ad_1] The traditional village ball 18 minutes outside the city ended in the traditional way: young men fighting outside. What made it different were the flashing knives. Three young men were rushed to the hospital early in the morning on Nov. 19. One, the 16-year-old captain of a local rugby team, died en route from a stab wound to his…
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London Tube Strike Called Off
[ad_1] The mayor of London on Sunday announced that a planned strike that would have ground the city’s underground Tube system to a halt this week had been suspended. “Londoners and visitors to our city will no longer face several days of disruption,” the mayor, Sadiq Khan, announced on social media late Sunday afternoon. “This shows what can be achieved…
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Blessing of Same-Sex Couples Rankles Africa’s Catholics
[ad_1] The Vatican’s recent declaration allowing the blessing of same-sex couples caused a stir around the globe, but perhaps most of all in Africa, a rising center of the Roman Catholic Church’s future. In one statement after the next, bishops in several countries spoke of the fear and confusion the declaration has caused among their flocks, and said it was…
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Two Journalists Are Killed in Gaza, Including the Son of Al Jazeera Reporter
[ad_1] As of Saturday, at least 70 Palestinian journalists and media workers had been killed in Gaza, some while covering the conflict, some when they were at home or sheltering with their families, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which said it was also investigating “numerous” other reports of journalists being killed. Their deaths have made it difficult to…
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War Brings Tensions, and Assault Rifles, Into an Israeli College
[ad_1] In a classroom at the University of Haifa in late December, Yitzhak Cohen, a fourth-year law student, began the shoulder-shrugging, arm-contorting choreography familiar to any student trying to remove a backpack. But instead of a knapsack, Mr. Cohen, 28, a reservist who had recently returned from fighting in Gaza to attend the university’s orientation, unshouldered his military-issue Tavor assault…
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