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Friday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] A mass shooting at a college in Prague A 24-year-old student at Charles University in Prague killed 14 people and wounded more than 20 others at the school, some critically, in a rare shooting spree yesterday in the Czech Republic. The gunman later fell from the roof of a building. The police said they believed he had first killed…
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U.S. Prepares to Lift Ban on Sales of Offensive Weapons to Saudi Arabia
[ad_1] The Biden administration is preparing to relax restrictions on some weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, U.S. officials said on Thursday, crediting the kingdom’s peace talks with a militia in Yemen for hastening an easing of the constraints. President Biden imposed the ban two years ago amid concerns that U.S. weapons were being used against civilians in Yemen, where hundreds…
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Israeli Military Uncovers New Evidence About Hostage Deaths in Gaza
[ad_1] Israel’s military said it has learned that its forces had come close to finding three hostages before they were mistakenly killed by Israeli troops in Gaza last week, an episode that has roiled the country and raised pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to quickly reach a deal to free Hamas’s remaining captives. The news was the latest to…
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Trying to Avoid U.N. Council Veto, Egypt and U.S. Hash Out Aid Deal for Gaza
[ad_1] Health authorities in Gaza say that about 20,000 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in Israel’s campaign, and the U.N. has warned of a humanitarian disaster as the territory’s civic and health care infrastructure collapses. U.N. officials earlier this month said that nearly 60 percent of people in Gaza were on the verge of starvation,…
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Friday Briefing: U.N. Prepares to Vote on Gaza Aid
[ad_1] U.N. Security Council prepares to vote on Gaza aid After a week of delays, the U.S. held high-level negotiations with Egypt yesterday to find a compromise on a U.N. Security Council resolution that would allow for scaled-up, safe delivery of aid to Gaza, an American official said. Here’s the latest. The U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the U.N., Robert Wood,…
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‘There Was No Sense of Time’: Israeli Teen Recounts Captivity in Gaza
[ad_1] Sahar Kalderon, 16, was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7. Her father and 12-year-old brother were also kidnapped. The siblings were released on Nov. 27 as part of a cease-fire deal. Their father remains in captivity. [ad_2] Source link
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This Antarctic Octopus Has a Warning About Rising Sea Levels
[ad_1] Scientists have long wondered whether the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a ticking time bomb in terms of sea level rise. New evidence from the DNA of a small octopus that lives in the Southern Ocean suggests that the ice sheet is indeed at risk of collapsing, according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Science. The…
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Iceland Asks Tourists To Please Stay Away From the Volcanic Eruption
[ad_1] The authorities in Iceland on Thursday reiterated calls to tourists to avoid the site of a volcanic eruption, a spectacular show of spewing lava, after a hiker had to be rescued by helicopter earlier in the week. The eruption occurred Monday night in Iceland’s most populated area, sending fountains of lava into the sky. The area, the Reykjanes Peninsula,…
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U.S. and Europe Eye Russian Assets to Aid Ukraine as Funding Dries Up
[ad_1] The Biden administration is quietly signaling new support for seizing more than $300 billion in Russian central bank assets stashed in Western nations, and has begun urgent discussions with allies about using the funds to aid Ukraine’s war effort at a moment when financial support is waning, according to senior American and European officials. Until recently, Treasury Secretary Janet…
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1898: Russia and the Red Sea
[ad_1] BERLIN, MONDAY — The following curious notice appears in a Berlin paper: “It’s said that Russian officials holding a high position in their own country are now on a secret mission in England, where they have been negotiating for the last month with officials in the British Civil Service.” Their alleged object is to obtain information, maps and plans…
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