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Trapped in a Tunnel for 15 Days, With No End in Sight
[ad_1] Over the two weeks that dozens of Indian construction workers have been trapped in a Himalayan road tunnel, the authorities have reported meter-by-meter progress toward reaching them and offered hopeful timelines for their rescue. Each time a breakthrough has appeared imminent, politicians have rushed to the scene. Yet 15 days after disaster struck, the 41 men are still stuck.…
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Monday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] A third exchange of hostages for prisoners Hamas, the armed group that controls Gaza, released 17 more hostages, including a 4-year-old girl, and said it would seek to extend a temporary cease-fire with Israel. The current four-day pause is scheduled to end today. An additional 39 Palestinians in custody were freed on Sunday, according to Israel’s prison service. The…
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Female Rangers ‘Don’t Go All Alpha Like the Men’ to Protect a Forest
[ad_1] Riding her motorbike while balancing a backpack, a wok and a sharp cleaver, Asmia expertly maneuvered her way up a dangerous cliffside: a three-mile trip along a precipitous dirt path, barely 40 inches wide, to reach the mouth of the forest. Asmia is one of the 15 members of a team of rangers — 10 of whom are women…
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U.S. Navy Rescues Central Park From Pirate Attack in Gulf of Aden
[ad_1] The U.S. Navy intervened to stop the hijacking of a commercial cargo ship by pirates in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia on Sunday, according to American defense officials. Sailors from the U.S.S. Mason, a Navy destroyer, captured the attackers who had boarded the Central Park, a chemical tanker, a senior defense official said. Zodiac Maritime, the London-based company…
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Monday Briefing: A 3rd Hamas-Israel Exchange
[ad_1] Avigail Idan, 4, was released from Gaza yesterday.Credit…Hostages and Missing Families Forum Hamas and Israel make their 3rd prisoner-hostage exchange Hamas released 17 more hostages yesterday, including one American — Avigail Idan, who turned 4 on Friday, nearly seven weeks after her parents were killed in the Oct. 7 cross-border assault on southern Israel. Here’s what we know about…
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Biden to Skip U.N. Climate Summit, White House Official Says
[ad_1] President Biden will not attend a major United Nations climate summit that begins Thursday in Dubai, skipping an event expected to be attended by King Charles III, Pope Francis and leaders from nearly 200 countries, a White House official said Sunday. The official, who asked to remain anonymous to discuss the president’s schedule, did not give a reason Mr.…
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Pro-Cease-fire Activists Shut Down Manhattan Bridge for Hours
[ad_1] Hundreds of protesters from an anti-Zionist Jewish group shut down the Manhattan Bridge on Sunday, snarling city traffic for hours. The demonstration, organized by the activist group Jewish Voice for Peace, which favors a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, began around 2 p.m., with a large Police Department contingent on the scene. Drivers sat bumper to bumper for at…
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As Hamas Releases More Hostages, Longer Cease-Fire Appears Possible
[ad_1] A third group of Gaza Strip hostages, including a 4-year-old American girl whose parents were killed in the Hamas raids on Israel, was freed on Sunday, raising the prospect more captives could be set free and a fragile truce extended. The 17 hostages released by Hamas, who were seized when the militants raided Israel on Oct. 7, included three…
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Palestinian Father Welcomes His Imprisoned Son Back Home in the West Bank
[ad_1] The father was glued to his television screen for days, anxiously watching the news to see if his 17-year-old son would be among those released from an Israeli prison as part of the deal struck between the Israeli government and Hamas last week. The deal offered a glimmer of hope to the father, Ziad Dawoud, 53, who had not…
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Shooting of 3 Palestinian Men in Vermont Investigated as Possible Hate Crime
[ad_1] The police in Burlington, Vt., on Sunday were investigating the shooting of three students of Palestinian descent as a possible hate crime, the city’s mayor said. The three victims, all men in their 20s and students of American universities, were walking near the University of Vermont on Saturday when they were shot and wounded by a white man with…
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