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Jiang Ping, the ‘Conscience of China’s Legal World,’ Dies at 92
[ad_1] Jiang Ping, a legal scholar who helped lay the foundation for China’s civil code, and whose experiences with political persecution shaped his relentless advocacy for individual rights in the face of state power, died on Dec. 19 in Beijing. He was 92. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by the China University of Political Science and Law, where…
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Israel, Citing Hezbollah Rocket Strikes, Warns of War in Lebanon
[ad_1] As Israel pounded targets in the Gaza Strip from the air and sea on Wednesday, a member of the country’s war cabinet threatened action on a second front, along the border with Lebanon, where the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah has fired rocket barrages into Israel. “I say to our friends around the world: The situation in the northern border necessitates…
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Shakira Honored With a Statue in Her Hometown in Colombia
[ad_1] The Colombian coastal city of Barranquilla this week revealed a 21-foot-tall tribute to one of the country’s most famous cultural exports: Shakira. “A heart that composes, hips that don’t lie, an unmatched talent, a voice that moves the masses and bare feet that march for the good of children and humanity,” reads the plaque below the statue. “I am…
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Thursday Briefing: Chinese Spies Compete With U.S. Spies
[ad_1] Chinese spies rise to meet the U.S. China’s Ministry of State Security is deploying artificial intelligence and other advanced technology to compete with the C.I.A. At the same time, the C.I.A. is pouring resources into monitoring Chinese companies that are developing A.I., quantum computing and other such tools. The ministry’s main source of information was once gossip at embassy…
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Erdogan Compares Netanyahu to Hitler in Televised Remarks
[ad_1] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel exchanged sharp words on Wednesday after Mr. Erdogan compared the Israeli leader to Adolf Hitler while discussing Israel’s war in Gaza. ‘‘Is what Netanyahu is doing any less than Hitler? It is not,’’ Mr. Erdogan said in televised remarks in Ankara, Turkey, at a science awards…
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Intel Moves Forward With $25 Billion Chip Plant Expansion in Israel
[ad_1] The semiconductor giant Intel confirmed on Wednesday that it would invest $25 billion to expand a chip factory in southern Israel after a $3.2 billion grant from the government there, moving ahead with a major investment in a country currently at war. Expanded operations at the existing manufacturing site in Kiryat Gat, northeast of Gaza, are set to begin…
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Hamas and Other Militants Are Firing Rockets Into Israel Every Day
[ad_1] As Israel wages a war in Gaza aimed at dismantling Hamas’s military capacity, the armed group and its affiliates have continued to fire rockets at Israel nearly every day, aiming deep inside its borders and striking some of the country’s biggest cities. Since Hamas led a terrorist attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, Hamas and other armed groups…
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Eiffel Tower Closes for Labor Action on Creator’s Anniversary
[ad_1] Historically minded visitors to Paris might have made a plan to check out the Eiffel Tower on Wednesday. After all, it was the 100th anniversary of the death of Gustave Eiffel, the eponymous civil engineer whose company designed and built it. But the sign they discovered by the landmark bore grim tidings: “La Tour Eiffel est actuellement fermée.” The…
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Wolfgang Schäuble, German Politician Who Helped Forge European Unity, Dies at 81
[ad_1] Wolfgang Schäuble, who was among the most influential and combative political figures in postwar West Germany, and who played central roles in his country’s reunification with the Communist east and in its subsequent projection of economic might, died on Tuesday. He was 81. His death was announced by the Germany’s Parliament, the Bundestag. Mr. Schäuble’s uncompromising financial rigor was…
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Israeli Raid on West Bank Refugee Camp Kills 6, Palestinians Say
[ad_1] An Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank has left six Palestinians dead, the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health said on Wednesday. They were the latest casualties in a surge of violence in the territory since the war in Gaza began on Oct. 7. The Israeli military said that its forces had carried out “counterterrorism…
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