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Quebec Still Longs for Its Lost Hockey Team, a Nationalist Symbol
[ad_1] When the Nordiques left Quebec nearly 30 years ago, the hockey team’s departure fueled the kind of mythologizing and nostalgia familiar to fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Nordiques’ stint in Quebec, playing there in the N.H.L. from 1979 to 1995, overlapped with the French-speaking province’s two failed attempts to secede from the rest of Canada, and the team’s…
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Ukraine’s Patriot Defenses at Work: Shuddering Booms and Bursts of Light
[ad_1] The first warning was a blip, a small anomaly picked up by radar scanning the skies over Ukraine. Within seconds, it became clear that the blip was a Russian ballistic missile streaking in Kyiv’s direction at several times the speed of sound. It was just before 4 a.m. on Dec. 11, and there was no time to sound air-raid…
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Resolving New Year’s Resolutions – The New York Times
[ad_1] How far into the New Year do you progress before you stop greeting people with “Happy New Year”? Is it two weeks? The end of January? Valentine’s Day? I like the practice. We’re all here together, at the threshold of the year that will be. It’s like we’re all co-owners of this new house called 2024, and we’re saying…
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Boeing’s 737 Max 9 and the Alaska Airline Grounding: What to Know
[ad_1] An emergency landing on Friday of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet in Portland, Ore., led the company to ground dozens of similar models of the plane in its fleet. But it also raised troubling new questions about the safety of a workhorse aircraft design dogged by years of problems and multiple deadly crashes. No one was…
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After Niger Coup, U.S. Scrambles to Keep a Vital Air Base
[ad_1] On a barren swath of land in the Sahara, U.S. Air Base 201 stands far from public sight, on the outskirts of a remote city in one of the world’s poorest countries, its role more elusive than ever since its completion nearly six years ago. Most of the drones that once monitored jihadist activities in volatile African countries have…
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Hezbollah Fires Rockets at Israel in Response to Assassination in Beirut
[ad_1] The Lebanese militia Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets toward a small military base in northern Israel on Saturday morning, in what the group said was an initial response to the assassination of a senior Hamas commander in Lebanon five days ago that has raised fears of a wider conflagration. Hezbollah said in a statement that the strikes had…
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Canada’s Foreign Student Surge Prompts Changes, and Anxiety
[ad_1] The education consultant in India didn’t reveal to Maninderjit Kaur, a Canada-bound student, where exactly, relative to Toronto, the college she had enrolled in was. Ms. Kaur told my colleague, Norimitsu Onishi, that after a never-ending Uber ride — eight hours and 800 Canadian dollars later — she had ended up in Timmins, Ontario, a place she had never…
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In Indonesia, Democracy or Dynasty?
[ad_1] Not long ago, the eldest son of President Joko Widodo of Indonesia was running a catering business and a chain of dessert shops. Now he is the symbol of a budding political dynasty and the beneficiary of family maneuvering. With the help of a high court ruling led by his uncle, the president’s son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, 36, has…
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Election Will Further Test Bangladesh’s Ailing Democracy
[ad_1] There is little doubt that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will seize a fourth consecutive term when Bangladesh goes to the polls on Sunday. The bigger question is what will remain of the country’s democracy. The main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has been crushed and left with little mobilizing capacity. Its leaders who are not already in jail…
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U.K. Rain Causes Hundreds of Flood Warnings and Travel Disruptions
[ad_1] In England, hundreds of flood warnings are in place. Torrential rains that swept across parts of England overnight prompted a wave of weather alerts and travel disruptions early Friday, forecasters and officials said, warning that some rivers could see flooding continue for days. Nearly 300 flood warnings, which indicate flooding is expected, were in place across England on Friday…
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