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Man Stabs South Korean Politician
[ad_1] Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s opposition party leader, was attacked by a man who appeared to be wearing a blue crown. In footage from Korean media, the attacker’s image has been blurred. [ad_2] Source link
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Junior Doctors at N.H.S. Begin 6-Day Strike
[ad_1] Thousands of young doctors walked off the job in England on Wednesday, dealing another blow to the country’s already-reeling National Health Service and raising concerns about a cascade of canceled medical appointments and surgeries. The strike, which started at 7 a.m. and was scheduled to last six days, would be the longest labor action yet by the doctors, who…
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Dismissals Point to Xi JInping’s Quiet Shake-Up of China’s Military
[ad_1] The expelled officials included some of the brightest rising stars in President Xi Jinping’s military: two generals who oversaw satellite launches and manned space missions; an admiral who helped entrench Beijing’s presence in the disputed South China Sea; and a missile commander who had honed China’s ability to respond to a possible nuclear war. They were among nine high-ranking…
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Wednesday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] Blast in Beirut kills senior Hamas leader The deputy head of Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri, and two leaders of its armed wing were killed in an explosion in Lebanon that the group attributed to Israel. Israel has refused to discuss the matter, but two senior U.S. officials said that Israel was responsible for the strike. Hamas’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said…
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Deputy Hamas Leader Is Killed in Lebanon as Fears Grow of a Wider War
[ad_1] Hamas on Tuesday accused Israel of killing Saleh al-Arouri, a top leader of the group, along with two commanders from its armed wing, the Qassam Brigades. Mr. al-Arouri is the senior-most Hamas figure to be killed since Israel vowed to destroy the organization and eliminate its leadership after a deadly Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7. Mr. al-Arouri was assassinated…
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Hamas Used Gaza Hospital as a Command Center, U.S. Intelligence Says
[ad_1] U.S. spy agencies believe that Hamas and another Palestinian group fighting Israel used Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza to command forces and hold some hostages, according to new American intelligence declassified on Tuesday. The hospital was the focus of a large Israel Defense Forces effort in November to take control of the facility, an operation that came under intense international…
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Wednesday Briefing: Beirut Blast Kills Senior Hamas Leader
[ad_1] A blast in Beirut killed a senior Hamas leader The deputy leader of Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri, and two leaders of its armed wing were killed in an explosion in Lebanon yesterday, the group said on its official Telegram channel. The three died in what Hamas described as a “Zionist raid” in a suburb of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.…
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Maureen Flavin Sweeney, Whose Weather Report Delayed D-Day, Dies at 100
[ad_1] On certain rare occasions, ordinary people in the midst of an average day have changed history. In 1947, Muhammad edh-Dhib, a young Bedouin shepherd looking for a sheep gone astray, discovered a hidden cave that contained the Dead Sea Scrolls, the earliest known version of most of the Hebrew Bible. Making his rounds one night in 1972, Frank Wills,…
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Video Shows Planes Colliding on Tokyo Airport Runway
[ad_1] Five Japan Coast Guard crew members were killed after a Japan Airlines plane collided with their aircraft while landing at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Tuesday evening. [ad_2] Source link
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Who is Saleh al-Arouri, the Senior Hamas Leader Killed in Beirut?
[ad_1] Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy Hamas leader who the group said was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday, was accused of masterminding attacks on Israel and had helped usher in a closer relationship between Hamas and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon. The chief of Hamas’s West Bank operations, Mr. al-Arouri was killed in an explosion that also…
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