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At Canada’s Northern College, Most of the Students are From India
[ad_1] On a college campus in northern Canada, eight hours by car from Toronto, most of the students who fill the classrooms are from a country half a world away: India. The young men and women stretching on mats in the gymnasium are more likely to be from Punjab or Gujarat, two Indian states, rather than rural Ontario. Hindi and…
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Winter Conditions Bring More Misery to Gaza
[ad_1] At night, amid heavy rains and dropping temperatures, Heba and Ehab Ahmad held their two youngest children tightly, relying on their body heat and a thin blanket to keep them warm as water and gusts of wind blew through the holes in their makeshift tent. “We have nothing to keep us warm and dry,” said Ms. Ahmad, 36. “We…
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Ukraine Accuses Senior Defense Official of Embezzling $40 Million
[ad_1] The Ukrainian police have arrested a senior Defense Ministry official on suspicions that he embezzled nearly $40 million as part of a fraudulent purchase of artillery shells for Ukraine’s military. The Ukrainian authorities have been working to clean up the ministry since reports of graft and financial mismanagement led to the removal in September of the minister at the…
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Without a Truce, U.N. Resolution May Do Little for Gaza, Aid Groups Say
[ad_1] United Nations and other aid officials warned on Saturday that a new U.N. Security Council resolution calling for stepped-up aid delivery to the increasingly hungry and sick civilians of the Gaza Strip would fail to stop the spiraling humanitarian crisis because it did not demand a full halt to the fighting. The resolution approved on Friday directs the secretary…
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Israel Relies on Combat Dogs in Gaza
[ad_1] They search for explosives and are the first members of the Israeli military to enter tunnels and other areas that could have traps in the Gaza Strip. Israel is relying heavily on dogs in its military campaign to push Hamas and other militant groups out of Gaza’s maze of tunnels and blasted buildings. “Dogs are doing amazing work,” the…
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How to Create a Black Hole Out of Thin Air
[ad_1] How many ways are there to leave this universe? Perhaps the best known exit entails the death of a star. In 1939 the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Harlan Snyder, of the University of California, Berkeley, predicted that when a sufficiently massive star runs out of thermonuclear fuel, collapses inward and keeps collapsing forever, shrink-wrapping space, time…
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How Russian and Chinese Interference Could Affect the 2024 Election
[ad_1] The U.S. government is preparing for its adversaries to intensify efforts to influence American voters next year. Russia has huge stakes in the presidential election. China seems poised to back a more aggressive campaign. Other countries, like Iran, might again try to sow division in the United States. As Washington looks ahead to the 2024 vote, U.S. intelligence agencies…
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Red Sea Shipping Halt Is Latest Risk to Global Economy
[ad_1] The attacks on crucial shipping traffic in the Red Sea straits by a determined band of militants in Yemen — a spillover from the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza — is injecting a new dose of instability into a world economy already struggling with mounting geopolitical tensions. The risk of escalating conflict in the Middle East is the latest in…
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Stateless People in Australia Freed From Detention, but Still Unfree
[ad_1] When Gus Kuster finished a one-year prison sentence in Australia, he anticipated rebuilding his life there, in the only country he has ever known. Instead, as a noncitizen and stateless person, he spent the following five years being shuttled between grim immigration detention centers, with seemingly no release date in sight. Dozens of other people, none of them Australian…
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Airstrike in Gaza Kills U.N. Worker and More Than 76 of His Relatives
[ad_1] A U.N. aid worker and more than 70 members of his extended family were killed on Friday near Gaza City, the same day that aid agencies sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council for passing a resolution that did not call for a full cease-fire in the besieged enclave. An Israeli airstrike killed Issam Al Mughrabi, who had worked at…
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