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They Said ‘I Do’ in a Moscow Prison
[ad_1] Nadezhda Shtovba did not wear a white dress to her wedding. There were no bridesmaids or groomsmen. She and her husband, Yegor, did not exchange wedding bands either — rings are banned in Butyrka prison. That is where Yegor Shtovba has spent the past 15 months in pretrial detention. In September 2022, he had read a love poem written…
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Half of Gazans Are at Risk of Starving, U.N. Warns
[ad_1] Walaa Zaiter’s four children have been hungry for weeks, but she can barely find them food. They ask for sandwiches, fruit juice and homemade Palestinian dishes like she used to cook before the war began. In a fleeting moment of internet access, she said, she once caught the children huddled around her phone to watch a YouTube video of…
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Powerful Earthquake Hits Japan, Triggering Tsunami Warnings
[ad_1] A powerful earthquake hit the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture in central Japan around 4:10 p.m. on Monday, triggering multiple tsunami warnings and evacuation orders in several prefectures. The quake 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. The…
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How to Start the New Year? Keep the Sea Goddess Happy.
[ad_1] Each New Year’s Eve, more than two million revelers — twice as many as typically fill Times Square — dress in white and pack Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro to watch a 15-minute midnight fireworks extravaganza. The one-night hedonistic release is one of the world’s largest New Year’s celebrations and leaves Copacabana’s famed 2.4 miles of sand strewed…
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Monday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] Signs of strain between the U.S. and Israel No other episode in the past half-century has tested the ties between the U.S. and Israel so significantly as the current war in Gaza. President Biden’s initial resolve to stand by Israel has given way to frustrating phone calls, sharp public comments and exhausting marathon meetings as the relationship has grown…
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U.S. Helicopters Sink 3 Houthi Boats in Red Sea, Pentagon Says
[ad_1] A clash between Iranian-backed Houthi fighters who were attacking a commercial freighter and U.S. Navy helicopters responding to the ship’s distress call ended on Sunday morning with the killing of all the crew members on three Houthi boats, the Pentagon said, a sharp escalation of violence at a moment when the White House is considering direct strikes on Iran’s…
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Conflict in Israel and Gaza, in Photos
[ad_1] More than two months after a Hamas-led attack in Israel killed 1,200 people, according to officials, the Israeli military is hunting for members of Hamas, the group that runs Gaza, including its most wanted man in the territory: Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader it considers the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attacks. The military has also been bombarding the…
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Asian American Officials Cite Unfair Scrutiny and Lost Jobs in China Spy Tensions
[ad_1] When Thomas Wong set foot in the United States Embassy in Beijing this summer for a new diplomatic posting, it was vindication after years of battling the State Department over a perceived intelligence threat — himself. Diplomatic Security officers had informed him when he joined the foreign service more than a decade ago that they were banning him from…
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Monday Briefing: Ukraine Steps Up Sabotage
[ad_1] Ukraine steps up sabotage, targeting trains As Russia and Ukraine each fail to make substantial advances at the front in their war, Ukraine has been turning to guerrilla tactics, including sabotage, assassinations and the targeting of Russian trains and train tunnels. On Nov. 29, Ukrainian saboteurs placed explosives on a Russian freight train roughly 3,000 miles from the Ukrainian…
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As War Rages in Ukraine, Denmark Turns an Office Park Back Into an Arsenal
[ad_1] The old Krudten ammunition plant, near the northernmost tip of Denmark, is a quiet shell of a factory that has sat empty for years despite its legacy of churning out bullets, artillery and explosives for the Danish military. But that is about to change: With the war in Ukraine fueling growing demand for Western weapons, the Danish government has…
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