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Gazan Tailors Use Covid-19 P.P.E. to Meet Diaper Demand
[ad_1] The lack of diapers has left some parents using plastic bags out of desperation. [ad_2] Source link
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Despite Interpol Fixes, Strongmen Find New Ways to Abuse It
[ad_1] For years, strongmen and autocrats had a novel weapon in their hunt for political enemies. They used Interpol, the world’s largest police organization, to reach across borders and grab them — even in democracies. An award-winning Venezuelan journalist was detained in Peru. An Egyptian asylum seeker was stopped in Australia. And Russia has tried repeatedly to secure the arrest…
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Tuesday Briefing
[ad_1] Aleksei Navalny’s widow keeps fighting. [ad_2] Source link
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Two Hospitals in Southern Gaza Are Left Barely Functioning
[ad_1] An Israeli raid last week has reduced one of Gaza’s biggest hospitals to little more than a shelter for a small, terrified crew of patients and medical staff, while health officials warned on Monday that food and fuel supplies were almost gone at another hospital that has endured a nearly monthlong siege in the same city, Khan Younis. Israel…
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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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Brazil’s President Lula Recalls Ambassador to Israel, Escalating a Dispute
[ad_1] President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil recalled his ambassador to Israel on Monday, as tensions escalated between the countries over the Brazilian leader’s sharp remarks against Israel’s war on Hamas. Mr. Lula summoned the ambassador, Frederico Meyer, back to Brazil “for consultations,” according to a statement from the country’s foreign ministry. Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, reprimanded…
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Why South Korean Doctors Have Walked Off the Job
[ad_1] Hundreds of interns and residents in South Korea walked off the job on Tuesday, disrupting an essential service to protest the government’s plan to address a shortage of doctors by admitting more students to medical school. While South Korea takes pride in its affordable health care system, it has among the fewest physicians per capita in the developed world.…
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The Wife of Haiti’s Assassinated President Is Accused in His Killing
[ad_1] A Haitian judge has indicted 51 people for their roles in the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, including his wife, Martine Moïse, who is accused of being an accomplice, despite being seriously wounded in the attack. A 122-page copy of the indictment by Judge Walther Voltaire that was provided to The New York Times does not accuse her…
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Israel May Add Restrictions to Al Aqsa Mosque Access for Ramadan
[ad_1] The Israeli government was locked in debate on Monday on whether to increase restrictions on Muslims’ access to an important mosque compound in Jerusalem during the holy month of Ramadan, leading to predictions of unrest if the limits are enforced. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that a decision had already been reached, without…
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Tuesday Briefing: Navalny’s Widow Speaks Out
[ad_1] Navalny’s widow vowed to continue his work In a video released yesterday, Yulia Navalnaya said she would carry on her husband’s work to challenge President Vladimir Putin’s autocratic rule and called on his followers to rally alongside her. “I ask you to share my rage,” she told Navalny’s followers in the video posted to his YouTube feed, “to share…
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