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Storm Kills 13 in Argentine Port of Bahía Blanca
[ad_1] At least thirteen people were killed in Argentina Saturday after a violent storm thrashed the port city of Bahía Blanca with strong winds and rain, about 400 miles south of the capital, Buenos Aires, officials said. The nation’s meteorological service warned residents of Buenos Aires that the storm, which had gusts of up to 86 miles per hour, making…
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In Rightward Shift, New Zealand Reconsiders Pro-Maori Policies
[ad_1] It is a rarity among nations that were once colonized: a country that widely uses its Indigenous language, where a treaty with its first peoples is mostly honored and where Indigenous people have permanent representation in the halls of power. But a decades-long push to support Māori, New Zealand’s Indigenous people — who lag far behind the wider population…
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At Least 61 Migrants Drown Off Libya, I.O.M. Says
[ad_1] More than 60 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Libya, an international migrant agency said on Saturday, another chapter in the unrelenting toll in the Mediterranean Sea as people in Africa flee famine, conflict and other upheavals for distant shores. The International Organization for Migration in Libya said in a post on the social platform X that women and…
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Three Israeli Hostages Killed in Error Had White Flag, Israel Says
[ad_1] The Israeli military on Saturday said three hostages mistakenly killed by Israeli troops had been shirtless, unarmed and bearing a makeshift white flag. The troubling details of how they died have created widespread anguish and prompted renewed calls for a pause in the fighting to allow more hostages to be released. The military, which acknowledged that the killings violated…
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China Braces for Cold Wave After Snow Causes Train Crash
[ad_1] Temperatures across China are forecast to plunge this weekend, as parts of the country reel from widespread disruptions caused by wintry conditions and heavy rains, including a subway collision in Beijing that left hundreds of commuters hospitalized. The cold snap comes after an abnormally warm fall, when the country logged its warmest October in decades. The average high temperature…
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Blue Carbon Is One of Many Companies Inking Carbon Market Deals
[ad_1] First, the little-known Emirati company set its sights on a forest the size of Maine. Then, another one that was big as South Carolina. After that, it focused on a chunk of land the size of Puerto Rico. As the oil-rich emirate of Dubai prepared to host this year’s United Nations-sponsored climate summit, the company, named Blue Carbon and…
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Gaza communications have been nearly blacked out for two days.
[ad_1] Gaza has been plunged into a near communication blackout for two days — at least the fifth such mass outage of phone and internet lines during the 10-week war — leaving more than two million Palestinians virtually cut off from the outside world and one another amid ongoing Israel’s airstrikes and ground attacks. This is the longest such outage…
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Tensions Spilling Over from Gaza to Red Sea Escalate
[ad_1] The tensions spilling over from the war in Gaza to merchant shipping in the Red Sea escalated on Saturday when Britain said that one of its warships had shot down a suspected attack drone. The Houthis, an armed group that controls much of northern Yemen, have been staging drone and missile assaults on Israeli and American targets since the…
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Israel mourns as the accidental killings of hostages reverberate.
[ad_1] The deaths of three hostages whom Israel said its troops had mistakenly shot and killed in Gaza were reverberating in Israel early Saturday as political leaders mourned them and protesters urged their government to prioritize the remaining hostages’ safe return over the country’s war goals. The Israeli military announced the accidental killings on Friday, hours after saying it had…
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Sheikh Nawaf, Emir of Kuwait, Dies at 86
[ad_1] Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, the emir of Kuwait who took power as the ruler of his tiny oil-rich state at a time of paralysis and political infighting in 2020, has died, Kuwait’s state news agency said on Saturday. He was 86. “With great sadness and sorrow, we offer our condolences to the Kuwaiti people, Islamic and Arab nations…
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