World
WordPress is a favorite blogging tool of mine and I share tips and tricks for using WordPress here.
-
Lawmakers Call for Raising Tariffs and Severing Economic Ties With China
[ad_1] Bipartisan lawmakers on Tuesday called for severing more of America’s economic and financial ties with China, including revoking the low tariff rates that the United States granted Beijing after it joined the World Trade Organization more than two decades ago. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party released a wide-ranging set of recommendations for resetting America’s economic…
Read More » -
UK Parliament’s Rwanda Vote Today, Explained
[ad_1] Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain faces a critical vote in Parliament on Tuesday. At issue is a highly contentious immigration policy that aims to deter asylum seekers from crossing from France to Britain on small boats by putting hundreds of them on one-way flights to Rwanda. Mr. Sunak must persuade enough of his own governing Conservative Party to…
Read More » -
Turkey Suspends Soccer Matches After Referee Attack
[ad_1] The punch landed only seconds after the referee Halil Umut Meler blew his whistle to end Monday night’s game in Turkey’s top soccer league. The first kick, and then the second, came after that, as the referee lay on the grass, desperately trying to protect his head with both hands. Within hours, the referee was in the hospital, the…
Read More » -
Hamas Strongholds Targeted by Israel: Khan Younis, Jabaliya and Shajaiye
[ad_1] With Israel pressing its offensive in Gaza, its forces were engaged in intense battles on Monday in three areas of the strip where Israeli officials believe Hamas militants still have strongholds. Khan Younis Khan Younis is the largest city in southern Gaza. Its prewar population of about 200,000 people swelled in the first month of the war, after Israel…
Read More » -
The Gaza Strip Before and After Israel’s Invasion, in Satellite Images and Video
[ad_1] Nine weeks ago, the Gaza Strip was a bustling home to more than two million people. Today, neighborhoods have been flattened by Israeli airstrikes and farming communities have been bulldozed by invading Israeli tanks. Video and satellite imagery captured in late November and early December reveals a devastating transformation in much of northern Gaza. The Port of Gaza used…
Read More » -
Israel Evacuation Orders in Gaza Sow Confusion
[ad_1] The WhatsApp group members had advantages many fellow Gazans lacked: working cellphones and a way to communicate with one another to avoid deadly Israeli strikes. But snippets of their conversations about the besieged southern city of Khan Younis show how even they were flummoxed by Israel’s sometimes contradictory evacuation warnings, which they described as confusing. “How do you know…
Read More » -
All 7 Members of BTS Are Now in Military Service in South Korea
[ad_1] Fans of the K-pop band BTS have known for years that a day would come when its seven members would all be doing mandatory service in the South Korean military. That day arrived on Tuesday. For many BTS fans, who happen to call themselves Army, seeing their favorite musicians enter the armed forces was as painful as they expected…
Read More » -
How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time
[ad_1] French, by most estimates the world’s fifth most spoken language, is changing — perhaps not in the gilded hallways of the institution in Paris that publishes its official dictionary, but on a rooftop in Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast. There one afternoon, a 19-year-old rapper who goes by the stage name “Marla” rehearsed her upcoming show, surrounded…
Read More » -
Three Months After Biden, It’s Xi’s Turn to Court Vietnam
[ad_1] China’s leader, Xi Jinping, arrived in Vietnam on Tuesday for a relatively rare trip abroad, seeking to elevate ties with an important neighbor just three months after President Biden visited Hanoi on a similar mission. Few nations now feature more centrally in the great-power competition between the United States and China, placing Vietnam, which has a long history of…
Read More » -
Tuesday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] Israel issues a warning to Hezbollah Israel warned that attacks by the Hezbollah militia along the border with Lebanon could not continue and would require a response. In a show of solidarity with Hamas, Hezbollah has launched repeated missile and drone attacks on army bases and other targets inside Israel, forcing the evacuation of civilians and prompting cross-border strikes.…
Read More »