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U.S. Vetoes Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution at U.N. Security Council
[ad_1] The United States on Friday vetoed a United Nations resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has launched hundreds of strikes, relief efforts were faltering and people were growing so desperate for basic necessities that some were stoning and raiding aid convoys. The U.N. secretary general, António Guterres, and most members of the Security…
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U.S. Sticks to Its Position on Israel as Gaza Crisis Deepens
[ad_1] The Biden administration showed no new signs on Friday that it was prepared to take a tougher line on Israel’s military operation against Hamas as desperate conditions in Gaza grew even worse, with civilian deaths rising and aid groups warning of shortages of water, food and medicine. Biden officials say Israel must do more to limit civilian casualties and…
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E.U. Agrees on Artificial Intelligence Rules With Landmark New Law
[ad_1] European Union policymakers agreed on Friday to a sweeping new law to regulate artificial intelligence, one of the world’s first comprehensive attempts to limit the use of a rapidly evolving technology that has wide-ranging societal and economic implications. The law, called the A.I. Act, sets a new global benchmark for countries seeking to harness the potential benefits of the…
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How ‘India’s Daughters’ Became a Times Series
[ad_1] Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. I have attended Hollywood awards ceremonies and watched couture-clad A-listers walk the red carpet, but I have never seen anyone look as glamorous as Arti Kumari on the day of her wedding in Bihar, India. For the final ceremony…
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Macron Visits Notre-Dame as Restoration Continues
[ad_1] President Emmanuel Macron of France checked on the progress in the rebuilding of the 860-year-old landmark that was ravaged by a fire in 2019. His visit came one year to the day before Notre-Dame is scheduled to reopen. [ad_2] Source link
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New Sickle Cell Therapies Will Be Out of Reach Where They Are Needed Most
[ad_1] The Food and Drug Administration’s approval on Friday of two groundbreaking gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease has brought a rare moment of hope and celebration to people with the agonizing blood disorder. But there is no clear path for the new therapies — one-time treatments so effective in clinical trials that they have been hailed as cures…
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U.N. Secretary-General Demands a Cease-Fire in Gaza
[ad_1] The U.N. secretary-general and most members of the Security Council called on Friday for the council to demand a permanent cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, saying that the humanitarian catastrophe in the enclave could threaten world stability. The resolution submitted by the United Arab Emirates set up a showdown with the United States, which made clear it would once…
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Premier League TV Rights Deal Steps Back From Streaming
[ad_1] The technical term might be “vertical integration.” Or, on reflection, perhaps that is not quite right, and it would — in the jargon — be known as “synergy.” Maybe those are the same thing. Either way, the concept is best encapsulated by Jack Donaghy, the vulpine executive portrayed by Alec Baldwin in the presumably now problematic sitcom “30 Rock.”…
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The Year in ‘Sensitive Content’
[ad_1] When I open Instagram early in the morning, I might see a monkey nursing her baby, an ad for ribbed leggings, a montage about manifesting a pregnancy and a video of two men tenderly lifting a boy’s body onto a white sheet. In this video, posted by the Palestinian photographer Belal Khaled, the men hold the boy at his…
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World’s Stinkiest Cheese Hits Supermarket Shelves in Britain
[ad_1] There is a cheese that may stand alone. In proud fetidness, that is. Rory Stone, a 59-year-old cheesemaker at Highland Fine Cheeses in Scotland, has been overrun with orders for a washed-rind cheese called the Minger, which he is billing as the most putrid-smelling cheese in the world. “Everybody is still asking for samples, and it just hasn’t stopped,”…
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