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Israel’s War Cabinet Reflects the National Consensus, for Now
[ad_1] The war cabinet’s functionality “doesn’t mean the personal accounts are deleted; they are just suspended,” said Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel Democracy Institute, a nonpartisan research group. “There’s no harmony there,” he added, “just an understanding of the gravity of the moment.” It is in many ways in Mr. Netanyahu’s interest, analysts said, to keep Israel in a…
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Putin’s Annual News Conference in Russia Gets Underway
[ad_1] President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is holding his year-end news conference on Thursday, resuming an annual tradition at a critical moment for the war his forces are waging in Ukraine. The December news conference has traditionally been a wide-ranging marathon that offers reporters a rare — albeit stage-managed — chance to pose potentially tricky questions. There were about…
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Thursday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] A global climate deal After two weeks of furious debate, diplomats from nearly 200 countries at the U.N. climate summit in Dubai reached a sweeping agreement that explicitly called for “transitioning away from fossil fuels.” The deal calls on countries to quit adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere entirely by midcentury, to triple the amount of renewable energy installed…
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World Bank Warns Record Debt Burdens Haunt Developing Economies
[ad_1] Surging interest rates are saddling the world’s poorest countries with record levels of debt and complicating investments in public health, education and infrastructure initiatives that are key to helping their populations emerge from poverty, the World Bank warned on Wednesday. In its latest report on international debt, the World Bank said that low- and middle-income countries had paid $443.5…
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Australian Court Throws Out Conviction of Mother Accused of Killing 4 Children
[ad_1] A court of appeal on Thursday overturned the conviction of a woman once labeled Australia’s worst female serial killer by the tabloids for the deaths of her four young children. The woman, Kathleen Folbigg, 56, was found guilty in 2003 of killing the children and sentenced to 30 years in prison. But Australia’s scientific community rallied around her, citing…
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Inside the Border Talks That Could Decide the Fate of Ukraine Aid
[ad_1] President Biden and Democrats on Capitol Hill are seriously considering Republican demands for deeply restrictive immigration policies in exchange for billions of dollars in aid for Ukraine, a move that activists say would devastate America’s obligations to welcome desperate migrants fleeing war and oppression. Mr. Biden has said he is willing to make “significant compromises” on border security to…
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Britain’s dangerous game of constitutional hardball
[ad_1] Back in April 2022, when Boris Johnson was still Britain’s prime minister, he announced a plan that was immediately contentious: to send asylum seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda without first hearing their claims for refugee protection in the United Kingdom. The proposal, which meant that even those granted asylum would stay in the small African country, was so…
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The U.S. criticizes Israel for ‘indiscriminate’ bombing in Gaza.
[ad_1] President Biden met with the families of Americans being held hostage in Gaza at the White House on Wednesday, a day after giving his most critical remarks to date about what he called Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” of the territory. Mr. Biden said on Tuesday that the nature of Israel’s attacks on Gaza was eroding what had been broad international…
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Argentina’s New ‘Anarcho-Capitalist’ President Starts Slashing
[ad_1] Javier Milei won Argentina’s presidency last month by wielding a roaring chain saw on the campaign trail to symbolize the slashing he planned for the nation’s government. On Tuesday, two days after taking office, the self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist” unveiled deep spending cuts and a sharp devaluation of Argentina’s currency, carrying the struggling nation of 46 million into a stretch of…
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10 Israeli Soldiers Are Killed in Gaza
[ad_1] The Israeli military on Tuesday suffered one of its highest single-day casualty counts since Israel began its ground invasion of Gaza in late October: Ten soldiers were killed in combat in the north of the enclave, the military said. Israeli military radio reported that nine of the soldiers had been killed in heavy fighting in Shajaiye, a neighborhood in…
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