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Sydney Asbestos Problem Grows as Taylor Swift Venue Tests Negative
[ad_1] Officials in Sydney, Australia, said on Sunday that they had found traces of asbestos at 34 public sites across the city in recent weeks, and that a venue for an upcoming Taylor Swift concert was declared free of the toxic mineral. The hunt for asbestos in recycled mulch in the city began last month, and sites that have tested…
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Avdiivka: The Death Throes of a Ukrainian City
[ad_1] Even from a few miles away, the death rattle of another Ukrainian city echoed through the mist and fog. Russian warplanes were dropping more thousand-pound bombs on Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, reducing an already battered city to rubble and ashes. Since Jan. 1, President Vladimir V. Putin’s forces have dropped around one million pounds of aerial bombs on an…
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The Documentary Aleksei Navalny Knew We’d Watch After His Death
[ad_1] About two-thirds of the way through, Navalny is relaxing between interviews with Roher when a woman asks if he’s getting annoyed by the questions about his past. No, Navalny tells her, in Russian: Roher can ask whatever he wants. She says that’s fine, but that he seems agitated. Navalny stops and explains: “It’s just that I realize that he’s…
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Thaksin Shinawatra, Former Thai Prime Minister, Freed on Parole
[ad_1] Thailand’s ousted former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, a leader once seen as a threat to the country’s wealthy elite, was released on parole on Sunday, after spending only a fraction of his original eight-year prison term in detention — in a hospital. Mr. Thaksin, who was removed in a coup and spent years in exile, made a stunning return…
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‘We’re Going to Stand Up’: Queer Literature is Booming in Africa
[ad_1] As a queer teenager growing up in northern Nigeria, Arinze Ifeakandu often found himself searching for books that reflected what he felt. He combed through the books at home and imagined closer bonds between the same-sex characters. He scoured the book stands in Kano, the city where he lived, hoping to find stories that focused on L.G.B.T.Q. lives. Later,…
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Residents Oppose Expanding Drug Use Sites to Suburban Vancouver
[ad_1] British Columbia’s rampant drug deaths have more than once thrust public health officials into uncharted territory. It became the first province to decriminalize small quantities of hard drugs for personal use in 2022, about two decades after Vancouver opened the first supervised injection site in North America. But as overdoses increase in some British Columbia towns, there is disagreement…
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As a Son Risks His Life to Topple the King, His Father Guards the Throne
[ad_1] The riot police appeared out of nowhere, charging furiously toward the young protesters trying to oust King Mswati III, who has ruled over the nation of Eswatini for 38 years. The pop of gunfire ricocheted through the streets, and the demonstrators started running for their lives. Manqoba Motsa, a college student, and his fellow Communists quickly slipped into disguise,…
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Netanyahu Says He Won’t Bow to Pressure to Call Off Rafah Invasion
[ad_1] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel insisted on Saturday that Israel would not bow to international pressure to call off its plan for a ground invasion of Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza that is now packed with more than a million Palestinians. Many of the people now in Rafah are displaced and living in schools, tents or the…
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Newly Vulnerable, Israelis Remain Traumatized and Mistrustful
[ad_1] After the Hamas invasion on Oct. 7, Doron Shabty and his wife and their two small children hid in Sderot, near the border with Gaza, and survived. A reservist in the infantry, he went into the army the next day. He just returned after more than 100 days in Gaza, having lost friends. Mr. Shabty, 31, who sees himself…
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Navalny’s Health Was Imperiled by Prison Conditions
[ad_1] Aleksei A. Navalny portrayed himself as invincible, consistently using his hallmark humor to suggest that President Vladimir V. Putin couldn’t break him, no matter how dire his conditions became in prison. But behind the brave face, the reality was plain to see. Since his incarceration in early 2021, Mr. Navalny, Russia’s most formidable opposition figure, and his staff regularly…
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