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Manchester United Sells 25 Percent Ownership Stake to Jim Ratcliffe
[ad_1] After a year of rumors, offers, final deadlines and final, final deadlines, the owners of Manchester United on Sunday announced that they had sold a minority stake in the team, English soccer’s most successful club, to the British petrochemical billionaire Jim Ratcliffe. The sale of the 25 percent stake in United, the former English and European champion, was confirmed…
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Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Found in an Arctic Prison
[ad_1] The Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny has been moved to a prison north of the Arctic Circle but “is doing well,” his spokeswoman said on Monday, ending a 20-day mystery over his whereabouts that had many supporters fearing the worst. “We have found Aleksei,” the spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said on social media. “His lawyer saw him today.” After…
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‘God Is Under the Rubble in Gaza’: Bethlehem’s Subdued Christmas
[ad_1] There will be no musical festivities. No tree-lighting ceremony. No extravagant decorations that normally bedeck the West Bank city of Bethlehem at Christmas. With the war in Gaza raging, this is a city in mourning. In perhaps the most overt display of how Israel’s war in Gaza has dampened Christmas celebrations in the city seen as the birthplace of…
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With Israeli Raids in the West Bank, ‘There’s No Such Thing as Sleeping at Night’
[ad_1] Mangled pipes poured sewer water into what remained of the road. On either side of the runoff were piles of broken pavement, churned up by bulldozers. The archway at the entrance to the neighborhood had been demolished; the gnarled hull of a black car sat nearby. Almost all of the residents of Jenin, a more than 70-year-old refugee camp…
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Kerala Cinema Offers a Subtler View of India
[ad_1] It is an Indian film without song and dance. The lovers don’t share a word, their main interaction a fleeting moment of eye contact in the monsoon rain. There are no car chases and no action stunts. The men are vulnerable. They cry. And yet when “Kaathal — The Core,” a film in the Malayalam language about a closeted…
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Hoping for Peace With Houthis, Saudis Keep Low Profile in Red Sea Conflict
[ad_1] After Iran-backed rebels took over the capital of Yemen in 2014, a 30-year-old Saudi prince named Mohammed bin Salman spearheaded a military intervention to rout them. With American assistance and weapons, Saudi pilots embarked on a bombing campaign called Operation Decisive Storm inside Yemen, the mountainous nation on their southern border. Officials expected to swiftly defeat the rebels, a…
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Christmas Comes Early in Ukraine, but Not a Moment Too Soon
[ad_1] Christmas lights flickered on ahead of schedule. Families sang carols a little sooner. And the first presents of the season — by tradition hidden under a pillow or in a boot — appeared two weeks early. Of Ukraine’s many Western-oriented changes, put in place bit by bit since independence and accelerated during the war, one brought special joy this…
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Israel Says It Is Stepping Up War Against Hamas in Gaza
[ad_1] Israeli leaders vowed on Sunday to pursue their war against Hamas, even as Israel’s own casualties mounted, with 15 soldiers reported killed in the Gaza Strip since Friday. “The war is exacting a very heavy cost from us,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israelis. “However, we have no choice but to continue to fight.” All but one of the…
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Strikes Kill Dozens in Central Gaza, Local Health Officials Say
[ad_1] Dozens of victims, including children, were taken to a nearby hospital in Deir al-Balah. The Israeli military said it was reviewing the incident. [ad_2] Source link
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A Special Christmas Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] ‘The most wonderful time of the year’ At a dairy farm in New York this month, carolers serenaded a herd of 28 cattle. Across Europe, Christmas markets popped up like fairy-dusted street fairs. And there’s cheer to be found even in the farthest reaches of the cosmos — the winking lights of the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster shine from…
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