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Republicans Block Ukraine Aid Bill Over Border Objections
[ad_1] Republicans on Wednesday blocked an emergency spending bill to fund the war in Ukraine, demanding strict new border restrictions in exchange and severely jeopardizing President Biden’s push to replenish the war chests of American allies before the end of the year. The failed vote highlighted waning support in the United States for continuing to fund Ukraine’s war effort at…
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Israel and Hamas Battle for a City in Gaza, Sparking Another Exodus
[ad_1] Since the war began, more than 15,000 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the territory’s health officials, and much of the region’s housing stock has been damaged or destroyed. Nearly 1.9 million people, or about 85 percent of the total population of Gaza, have fled their homes, squeezing into an area covering less than one-third of the…
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Thursday Briefing: Gazans Flee Khan Younis
[ad_1] Gazans flee Khan Younis, but refuge is hard to find The Israeli offensive in the southern Gaza Strip has set off another migration of distressed civilians, as thousands of people flee the city of Khan Younis, where the Israeli military is waging close-quarter battles with Hamas fighters. Many Palestinians have fled to the southern border town of Rafah, where…
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Gazans Flee Fighting to Al-Masawi, but Find Little Shelter There
[ad_1] Faced with fierce fighting in the south of Gaza, large numbers of civilians have fled to a tiny seaside village where Israel has said they can find safety. Its name is Al-Mawasi — and once there, Gazans have found no shelter, no humanitarian and little in the way even of basic infrastructure. Yousef Hammash, an employee of the Norwegian…
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U.S. Charges 4 Russian Soldiers With War Crimes Against an American
[ad_1] The Justice Department said on Wednesday that it had charged four Russian soldiers with torturing an American living in the war-ravaged region of Kherson in Ukraine, using a war crimes statute for the first time since it was enacted nearly three decades ago. The indictment, unsealed in Virginia, could be followed by other charges against Russians found to have…
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Biden Plans to Call on Congress to Approve Aid to Ukraine
[ad_1] President Biden plans to call on Congress on Wednesday to put aside partisan differences and promptly pass a multibillion-dollar aid package for Ukraine, warning that failure to do so could enable President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to reclaim momentum in the war. Efforts to resupply Ukraine as well as Israel appear at an impasse as Republicans insist on…
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Nguyen Qui Duc, Whose Salon Became a Hanoi Hub, Dies at 65
[ad_1] Nguyen Qui Duc, the proprietor of a salon and exhibition space that became a Hanoi landmark, where both Vietnamese and foreigners gathered for music, poetry and long nights of drinks and sushi, died on Nov. 22 in a hospital in Hanoi. He was 65. The cause was lung cancer, said his sister and sole survivor, Dieu-Ha Nguyen. A war…
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As Political Turmoil Intensifies in Ukraine, Opposition Leader Calls for Unity
[ad_1] The Ukrainian opposition leader, Petro O. Poroshenko, has appealed for political unity as turmoil intensifies in his country after he was blocked from leaving for a trip abroad that he said was aimed at lobbying for more military support. “It was a surprise and shock for me when they tried to stop me,” Mr. Poroshenko said in an interview…
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Read Your Way Through Madrid
[ad_1] What books can take me behind closed doors or show me other facets of the city? I have a weakness for the play “Bohemian Lights,” by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán. In it, we spend almost 24 hours with the poet Max Estrella, reflecting on the decadence of Spanish society in the 1920s (in general, reflecting on the decadence of…
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Can Carbon Capture Live Up to the Hype?
[ad_1] World leaders at the annual United Nations climate talks have battled for years over whether they should “phase out” fossil fuels like coal or just phase them “down.” Now, another phrase has taken center stage at this year’s summit in Dubai: Should countries agree to end the use of “unabated” fossil fuels? That peculiar word choice might allow nations…
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