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COP28 Begins With Fossil Fuels, and Frustration, Going Strong
[ad_1] As leaders from nearly every nation on the planet gather on Thursday in the United Arab Emirates to confront global warming, many are carrying a sense of disillusionment into the annual climate summit convened by the United Nations. Countries talk about the need to cut the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet, but emissions are reaching record highs…
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Daisaku Ikeda, Who Led Influential Japanese Buddhist Group, Dies at 95
[ad_1] Daisaku Ikeda, the president of Soka Gakkai International, the global arm of a Buddhist movement in Japan that spawned an influential political partner to the country’s governing party, died on Nov. 15 at his home in Tokyo. He was 95. His death was confirmed by Soka Gakkai in a statement. Mr. Ikeda (pronounced ee-KEH-da) was the third leader of…
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Thursday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] Biden defends clean energy agenda On a tour of a wind turbine factory in Colorado, President Biden rebuked conservative opponents who had characterized his climate policies as “a massive failure.” But even as he stressed the importance of an economy built on clean energy, the president said little about climate change, just days after declining to attend COP28, the…
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Russia Asks Court to Label Gay Rights Movement as ‘Extremist’
[ad_1] In recent years, L.G.B.T.Q. people in Russia have lived under increasing fear as the Kremlin has ratcheted up measures curtailing gay and transgender rights in tandem with the repressive search for “internal enemies” during the war in Ukraine. In the latest threat, the Ministry of Justice will seek a court order on Thursday to declare the international gay rights…
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Pope’s Critics Feel the Sting After His Patience Runs Out
[ad_1] As Pope Francis smiled warmly at the circus performers spinning and flipping in front of him at his weekly general audience in the Vatican on Wednesday, he looked every bit the grandfatherly figure who has for the last decade sought to make the church a kinder, gentler and more inclusive place. Except for the people feeling his wrath. There…
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Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Freed From Israeli Prison in Hostage Exchange
[ad_1] The prominent Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi and more than two dozen other women and children were released from Israeli prisons early Thursday, Israeli and Palestinian authorities said, in the latest exchange for hostages held in Gaza. The Israeli military arrested Ms. Tamimi, 22, in a predawn raid on Nov. 6 on suspicion of inciting violence and calling for terrorist…
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Henry Kissinger Is Dead at 100
[ad_1] “History has treated Acheson more kindly,” Mr. Kissinger wrote. “Accolades for him have become bipartisan.” Thirty-five years after his death, he said, Acheson had “achieved iconic status.” Mr. Kissinger clearly became an icon of a different kind. And he was acutely aware that the challenges facing the nation had changed. At age 96, he plunged into questions surrounding artificial…
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What We Know About Israeli Hostages Hamas Released on Wednesday
[ad_1] Hamas freed a group of 10 Israeli hostages and four Thai nationals on Wednesday, the sixth such release of hostages since a cease-fire began on Friday. The group included a few relatives of people who had already been released. Here’s what we know about the Israeli hostages released on Wednesday. Ra’aya Rotem, 54 Ra’aya RotemCredit…Hostages and Missing Families Forum,…
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Britain Says Bye-Bye to Its Only Pandas as They’ll Soon Depart for China
[ad_1] Britain’s only two pandas will soon be returned to China, officials said, in a send-off that has dispirited fans of the playful, waddling bears and signals what appears to be the end, at least for now, of panda diplomacy. “Bamboo bon voyage,” the Edinburgh Zoo of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland said on its website, noting that there…
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Gaza Mediators Seek Cease-Fire Extension
[ad_1] Top officials from Qatar, Egypt and the United States pushed on Wednesday to lock in another temporary extension of the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, seeing it as the best way to ease the embattled territory’s humanitarian crisis, secure the release of more Israeli hostages and slow the war’s escalating death toll for at least a little longer. But…
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