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Missiles Hammer Kyiv in Large-Scale Attack on Ukraine
[ad_1] Missiles and drones hammered Kyiv on Tuesday morning, officials said, in what appeared to be a large-scale Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital and other cities. The Ukrainian Air Force said the barrage involved some of Russia’s most powerful weapons, possibly including hypersonic missiles that fly at several times the speed of sound. Loud bangs jolted Kyiv as its…
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Lee Jae-myung, South Korea Opposition Leader, Is Stabbed
[ad_1] Lee Jae-myung, the leader of South Korea’s main opposition party, was stabbed in the neck on Tuesday, according to the police and live-streamed TV footage. Mr. Lee, the leader of the Democratic Party, was visiting the southern port city of Busan when an unidentified man stabbed him in the neck with a knifelike weapon, according to the footage. Mr.…
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Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead
[ad_1] Peter Magubane, a Black South African photographer whose images documenting the cruelties and violence of apartheid drew global acclaim but punishment at home, including beatings, imprisonment and 586 consecutive days of solitary confinement, died on Monday. He was 91. His death was confirmed by family members speaking to South African television news broadcasts. No other details were provided. Such…
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Israel’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Judiciary Law
[ad_1] Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law limiting its own powers, a momentous step in the legal and political crisis that gripped the country before the war with Hamas, and pitted the court against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government. The court’s 8-7 ruling has the potential to throw Israel’s national emergency government, formed after the Oct.…
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Putin and Zelensky Address Their Citizens on New Year’s Eve
[ad_1] Russia hit Ukraine with missiles and drones hours before the leaders of the two countries used New Year’s Eve speeches to their people on Sunday to offer starkly different messages at the end of another year of brutal war. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said the Russian invasion had already demonstrated his country’s strength and resilience — and he called…
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Tuesday Briefing: Israel’s Top Court Rejects Move to Limit It
[ad_1] Israel’s Supreme Court rejects a move to limit its power Israel’s Supreme Court narrowly struck down a law proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that was meant to limit the court’s own powers. The momentous ruling, which was decided by a majority of eight judges to seven, could ignite a constitutional crisis. Here’s the latest. Members of Netanyahu’s Likud…
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Powerful Earthquake Hits Japan, and Officials Warn of Aftershocks
[ad_1] A powerful earthquake struck western Japan on Monday, triggering tsunami warnings and evacuation orders, trapping people under collapsed buildings and disrupting electricity and mobile phone services in Ishikawa Prefecture, the epicenter of the quake, the Japanese authorities said. Initial reports suggested the quake did not cause the major tsunami waves or fatalities that had initially been feared, but officials…
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Powerful Earthquake Hits Japan, Setting Off Tsunami Warnings
[ad_1] The epicenter of the quake was in Ishikawa Prefecture, along the west coast of Japan. [ad_2] Source link
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Map: Earthquake Strikes Japan – The New York Times
[ad_1] An earthquake struck the Noto peninsula at around 4:10 p.m., local time, and had a magnitude of 7.6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake measured 7.5 magnitude. As seismologists review available data, they may revise the reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may…
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Fukushima Disaster Still Looms Large in Japan Years After Quake
[ad_1] As Japan assesses the damage from Monday’s major earthquake, it is still reckoning with the devastating nuclear crisis triggered by an quake nearly 13 years ago, one that placed the name of Fukushima on par with Chernobyl’s and traumatized the nation. In March 2011, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and a tsunami devastated the northeast coast of Japan and knocked out…
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