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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 Men Down’: For Ukrainian Medics, It Was Time to Move
[ad_1] To save lives, Ukrainian combat medics must stay alive. So, deep inside a position that soldiers call “the black forest” in eastern Ukraine, the medical corps of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade tries to remain hidden. The zero line — where Russian and Ukrainian forces are squared off in trench lines within sight of each other — is only a…
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U.S. Steel Acquisition Proposal Tests Biden’s Industrial Policy
[ad_1] U.S. Steel is an iconic example of the lost manufacturing muscle that President Biden says his economic policies will bring back to the United States. But last month, the storied-but-diminished company announced plans to be acquired by a Japanese competitor. That development has put Mr. Biden in an awkward bind as he tries to balance attempts to revitalize the…
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Israel Says It Dismantled Hamas Operations in Northern Gaza: Live Updates
[ad_1] Displaced Palestinians carrying bags of wood at a makeshift tent camp in the Muwasi area, southern Gaza, last week. For three months, Israel has been bombarding Gaza, displacing a majority of the enclave’s residents.Credit…Fatima Shbair/Associated Press Israel’s military said it had dismantled Hamas’s military capabilities in northern Gaza, and was now focusing on doing the same in the central…
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Bangladesh Votes in Election Marred by Crackdown and Boycotts
[ad_1] Polls opened on Sunday in Bangladesh for a parliamentary election with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina nearly guaranteed a fourth consecutive term in office, in a vote that has been marred by a widespread crackdown on the opposition. Security remained tight and the mood tense across the country of 170 million people as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the main opposition,…
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Japan Earthquake Survivor in Her 90s Rescued After Five Days
[ad_1] Police and other rescue workers pulled a woman in her 90s out from under a collapsed house on Saturday in western Japan, five days after a powerful earthquake struck the region, killing more than 126 people. Few details were available, but video footage showed a fleet of rescuers surrounding the site in Suzu, one of the hardest-hit villages. According…
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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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Arno J. Mayer, Unorthodox Historian of Europe’s Crises, Dies at 97
[ad_1] Arno J. Mayer, a historian whose unorthodox reading of the first half of the 20th century challenged conventional understandings of World War I, World War II and the Holocaust, died on Dec. 17 in a senior care facility in Princeton, N.J. He was 97. His son Daniel confirmed the death. Dr. Mayer, who was born in Luxembourg, fled to…
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Ukraine Says Russian Attacks Kill 11 Civilians
[ad_1] Ukrainian officials said on Saturday that Russian missile strikes on a city and a village close to the eastern frontline had killed at least 11 people, including five children, and wounded eight. Vadym Filashkin, the governor of the Ukrainian-controlled areas of the Donetsk region, said the Russian military hit the area with a barrage of missiles on Saturday evening,…
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As Gaza Losses Mount Under Israeli Strikes, Proper Burials Are Another Casualty
[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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