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Boris Johnson to Face Tough Questions at Covid Inquiry
[ad_1] Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister whose tenure was dominated and ultimately derailed by the coronavirus pandemic, is set to testify on Wednesday before an official inquiry into his government’s handling of the crisis. Mr. Johnson will face hard questions about whether he waited too long to impose a lockdown as the virus engulfed Britain in March 2020.…
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Wednesday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] ‘Horrific accounts of unimaginable cruelty’ President Biden condemned the “unimaginable cruelty” of Hamas attackers who raped and mutilated women in Israel on Oct. 7, and he blamed the terrorist group’s refusal to release its remaining female hostages for the breakdown in cease-fire talks. Hamas has rejected the allegations. Read an analysis of Biden’s foreign policy strategy. “Survivors and witnesses…
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Shooting in London’s Hackney Leaves a Woman Dead
[ad_1] A 42-year-old woman was fatally shot in east London on Tuesday evening in a rare deadly shooting, the authorities said. Police found three people with gunshot wounds. The woman, whose name has not been released, died at the scene. A 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were taken to a hospital, where their conditions are being assessed, Metropolitan Police…
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U.S. Air Force Says Osprey Crash Off Japan Left No Survivors
[ad_1] The U.S. Air Force said on Tuesday that all eight of the airmen aboard the CV-22 Osprey that crashed in waters off southern Japan last week were believed to have been killed, and that the military was now focused on recovering their remains and debris from the aircraft. “The honorable service of these eight airmen to this great nation…
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Arab Citizens of Israel Released in Deals With Hamas Fear a Backlash
[ad_1] About one-fifth of Israelis are Arabs whose families were living in what would become Israel before the state was founded in 1948. Unlike the Palestinian refugees who ended up in the West Bank, Gaza and neighboring Arab countries, this group remained in Israel and received citizenship. While they carry Israeli passports, vote and can exercise other civil rights, many…
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Israel-Hamas War Intensifies in Southern Gaza; Civilians Say No Place Is Safe
[ad_1] Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesman, said on Monday that while it was too early to make definitive assessments, the United States saw signs that Israel was making changes to limit civilian casualties, including reducing mass displacement. He pointed to the more detailed evacuation map published by the Israeli military, saying it represented “a much more targeted request” and…
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Israeli Doctors Help Child Hostages Return Home
[ad_1] “They spoke about death as if they’re going down to the grocery and speaking about which ice cream they will buy,” Dr. Mozer-Glassberg said. The war has hit women and children especially hard in Gaza as well. They make up many of the 15,000 people reported killed in Gaza since the war began on Oct. 7, according to U.N.…
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Alberto Fujimori Is Ordered Released From Prison in Peru
[ad_1] Peru’s top court on Tuesday ordered former President Alberto Fujimori released from prison, where he is serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations, defying an order by an international court that the South American country keep him behind bars. The court, Peru’s Constitutional Tribunal, voted 3 to 1 to reaffirm its decision to instate a presidential pardon granted…
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“We sleep fearing we might be dead”
[ad_1] Jason Shawa Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Hatem Ali/Associated Press Yousef Masoud for The New York Times Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times During the cease-fire, more medical supplies and other aid made it into Gaza, and some hospitals were able to resume some treatments, like…
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House Declares Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism, Dividing Democrats
[ad_1] House Democrats splintered on Tuesday over a resolution condemning the rise of antisemitism in the United States and around the world, with more than half of them declining to support a measure declaring that “anti-Zionism is antisemitism.” The resolution denouncing antisemitism, drafted by Republicans, passed by a vote of 311 to 14, drawing the support of all but one…
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