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Rishi Sunak Faces One of His Toughest Weeks as U.K. Prime Minister
[ad_1] Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain embarked on one of the most politically fraught weeks of his tenure on Monday, facing a mutiny against his flagship immigration policy and testifying before an official inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic. On a day of split-screen drama in the capital, Mr. Sunak expressed sorrow for Britain’s heavy death toll from Covid-19, saying,…
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As Zelensky Heads to Washington, Russia Targets Kyiv With Missiles
[ad_1] As President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine heads to Washington on an urgent mission to rally flagging Western support for his nation, the Russian military on Monday targeted the Ukrainian capital with the most intense salvo of ballistic missiles in months. Explosions boomed over the snow-covered capital, Kyiv, shortly after 4 a.m.: Missiles racing toward the city at several times…
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The Louvre Is Raising Ticket Prices Ahead of the Summer Olympics in Paris
[ad_1] The Louvre Museum said it would raise its basic ticket price to 22 euros from 17 euros beginning next month in the latest sign that visitors may face higher costs ahead of next year’s Summer Olympics in Paris. The Louvre, which expects to have welcomed nearly 9 million visitors by the end of the year, said the approximately 30…
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Will Guatemala’s President-Elect, Bernardo Arévalo, Actually Take Office?
[ad_1] When the anticorruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo won a landslide victory in Guatemala’s presidential race, voters streamed into the capital of Central America’s most populous country to celebrate. But as Mr. Arévalo’s foes intensify efforts to bar the president-elect from taking office just weeks from now, the mood on the streets has changed. Indigenous protesters camped in front of the…
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Chinese Coast Guard Ship Shoots Water Cannon at Philippine Vessel
[ad_1] Video captured by a Times reporter showed how China attempted to prevent Filipino fishers from gaining access to Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea. [ad_2] Source link
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What It Feels Like To Be the Target of China’s Water Cannons
[ad_1] The Filipino fishers on wooden boats waved at our vessel, a Philippine fisheries boat, from less than a mile away, but no one on our ship dared to move. Encircling us were two Chinese Coast Guard ships and five Chinese militia vessels. Then came the water cannon. One of the Chinese Coast Guard ships had fired the high-intensity water…
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Monday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] A ‘dire’ situation at the Gaza-Egypt border Tens of thousands of Palestinians have gathered near Gaza’s border with Egypt, as they attempt to flee Israel’s complete siege of the Gaza Strip. Aid officials warned that conditions were “dire” amid “extreme” overcrowding, and they have raised alarms about the spread of disease and the risk of a potential mass displacement…
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Gazans Mass at Border for Safety, but Find Only More Peril
[ad_1] The last point of refuge for Palestinians fleeing from Israel’s relentless siege of Gaza is collapsing under the weight of tens of thousands of people seeking food and shelter, stirring fears of a potential mass displacement into Egypt, United Nations officials warned on Sunday. Pressure is mounting in the area near Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, Rafah, where many…
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Shlomo Avineri, Israeli Scholar Skeptical About Peace, Dies at 90
[ad_1] Shlomo Avineri, an Israeli political scientist, historian and former government official whose pessimism about resolving the conflict with Palestinians did not stop him from advocating measures to ease it, died on Nov. 30 in Jerusalem. He was 90. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by Hebrew University, also in Jerusalem, where he taught, and by his daughter and…
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Dr. Gao Yaojie, Who Exposed AIDS Epidemic in Rural China, Dies at 95
[ad_1] Gao Yaojie, a Chinese doctor who defied government pressure in exposing an AIDS epidemic that spread across rural China through reckless blood collection, died on Sunday at her home in Upper Manhattan. She was 95. Her death was confirmed by her friend and associate Prof. Arnold J. Nathan, a scholar of Chinese politics at Columbia University. Dr. Gao’s relentless…
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