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A Closer Look at the Year in Pictures
[ad_1] The Year in Pictures is a way to commemorate the big news events from January to December: the ones that traumatized us — and there are many — mixed with some moments of bliss. [ad_2] Source link
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Boeing Urges Airlines to Inspect 737 Max Planes for Possible Loose Bolts
[ad_1] Boeing has urged airlines to inspect all 737 Max airplanes for a possible loose bolt in the rudder-control system after an international airline discovered a bolt with a missing nut while performing routine maintenance, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday. After the international airline, which the agency did not name, noticed the missing nut, Boeing discovered that an…
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2023 Obituaries: A Host of Consequential, and Very Long, Lives Lost
[ad_1] In February 1961, The New York Times, citing a study by the American Medical Association, ran a brief article reporting that Americans could very well enjoy a life expectancy of 120 years during the 21st century. The A.M.A., reflecting a now bygone era perhaps more optimistic than our own, was foreseeing a continuing tide of advances in medical science…
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‘Significant Damage’ Reported As Storm Gerrit Moves Through Britain
[ad_1] A powerful storm bringing strong, gusty winds as it moves across Britain has left thousands of customers in Wales and England without power, delivered heavy rain and flood warnings, and disrupted train journeys ahead of the long New Year’s weekend. A possible tornado damaged some homes in England’s greater Manchester area, at one point leaving more than 3,000 homes…
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What Happened in One of Israel’s Deadliest Attacks in Gaza
[ad_1] In this airstrike, Israel was targeting a senior Hamas leader. Dozens of people in a residential neighborhood were killed in the attack. [ad_2] Source link
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In Burkina Faso, Criticizing the Army Could Get You Drafted
[ad_1] One Friday earlier this month, just as Dr. Daouda Diallo stepped out of the passport office in the capital of the West African nation of Burkina Faso, four men grabbed him off the street, pushed him into a vehicle and drove off. Dr. Diallo, a pharmacist-turned-rights-activist who had recently been awarded a prestigious prize for human rights work, has…
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A Pint of Wine? Britain Plans to Bring Back an Old-Fashioned Measure.
[ad_1] In 2024, the Brits will be able to drink like Winston Churchill again. The government announced on Wednesday that it would allow stores and pubs to sell pints of wine, famously said to be the former prime minister’s favorite quantity of champagne. What? But also, why? It’s a side effect of Brexit, Britain’s official exit from the European Union…
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Thursday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] Can Israel really dismantle Hamas? Skepticism is growing over one of Israel’s key objectives: to eliminate Hamas, the Islamist political and military organization that maintains control over the Gaza Strip. Increasingly, critics such as President Emmanuel Macron of France are questioning whether resolving to destroy such a deeply entrenched organization was ever realistic. Since Hamas first emerged in 1987,…
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Surging Mexico Border Crossings Push U.S. Resources to Brink
[ad_1] At a remote spot in the Arizona desert, near a hole in the border wall, dozens of migrants huddled over wood fires. After fleeing war in Sudan, violent gangs in Central America or Mexican cartels, the men had all crossed into the United States illegally, walked on foot over rugged terrain for hours, and arrived at this outpost exhausted,…
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Jacques Delors, Passionate Architect of European Unity, Dies at 98
[ad_1] Reluctance in France and Britain kept the commitment to political unity, an aspirational United States of Europe, weak. Still, four countries — Austria, Norway, Finland and Sweden — joined the union during Mr. Delors’s presidency. Mr. Delors’s married Marie Lephaille in 1948. She died in 2020. Their son, Jean-Paul, died of leukemia in 1982. Their daughter, Ms. Aubry, is…
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