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Germany Freezes Government Spending as Budget Crisis Deepens
[ad_1] What Is Affected: No funding pledges for next year. The halt in new spending authorizations applies to all ministries. It also covers a special fund of about €200 billion that was set up to support companies in the aftermath of the pandemic and the energy crisis ignited by Russia’s war in Ukraine. “We are not talking about a shutdown…
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Who Are the Palestinian Prisoners Who Could Be Released in the Hostage Deal?
[ad_1] Negotiations around the release of Israeli women and children held hostage in Gaza have centered around an exchange for Palestinian women and minors held in Israeli prisons. The size of that group has grown quickly during the six weeks of war and upheaval since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, according to a Palestinian prisoners’ rights group. The…
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2 Journalists Killed in Israeli Strike in Lebanon, Network Says
[ad_1] As cross-border clashes intensified between Israel and the armed group Hezbollah, three people, including two television journalists, were killed in an Israeli strike on Tuesday in southern Lebanon, Lebanese officials said. The Lebanese military and Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister blamed Israel for the attack. The Israeli armed forces did not immediately comment on the episode. Al-Mayadeen, a pan-Arab network…
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Palestinian Mothers in Gaza Fear Giving Birth in a War Zone
[ad_1] “My experience during childbirth was a nightmare in every sense of the word, or something like a horror film,” said 29-year-old Wajiha al-Abyad. Her contractions started at around 9 p.m. on Oct. 29. “We called for an ambulance, but they told us they couldn’t come. The streets were empty and pitch-black, and there was no sound to be heard…
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A.I. Killer Drones Are Becoming Reality. Nations Disagree on Limits.
[ad_1] It seems like something out of science fiction: swarms of killer robots that hunt down targets on their own and are capable of flying in for the kill without any human signing off. But it is approaching reality as the United States, China and a handful of other nations make rapid progress in developing and deploying new technology that…
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Mosab Abu Toha, Noted Palestinian Poet, Disappears in Gaza, Family Says
[ad_1] A celebrated Palestinian poet and essayist who founded the Gaza Strip’s first English-language library disappeared on Sunday after he was stopped by the Israeli military as his family was fleeing to southern Gaza, relatives said. The free speech organization PEN America said on Monday that the poet, Mosab Abu Toha, had been detained by Israel and expressed concern. The…
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What Are the Risks of A.I. Drones and Weapons?
[ad_1] Swarms of killer drones are likely to soon be a standard feature of battlefields around the world. That has ignited debate over how or whether to regulate their use and spurred concerns about the prospect of eventually turning life-or-death decisions over to artificial intelligence programs. Here is an overview of how the technology has evolved, what types of weapons…
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Indonesian Hospital Patients Transported to Nasser Hospital
[ad_1] Injured patients, including children, were moved by bus from one Gaza hospital to another on Monday. [ad_2] Source link
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Rishi Sunak’s Dilemma: When to Hold an Election He Looks Poised to Lose
[ad_1] No question in British politics will be more regularly asked, and reliably brushed aside, over the next few months than when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to call the country’s next general election. He must do so by January 2025. The conventional wisdom is that with his Conservative Party trailing the opposition Labour Party by 20 percentage points in…
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Electronic Warfare Confounds Civilian Pilots, Far From Any Battlefield
[ad_1] Electronic warfare in the Middle East and Ukraine is affecting air travel far from the battlefields, unnerving pilots and exposing an unintended consequence of a tactic that experts say will become more common. Planes are losing satellite signals, flights have been diverted and pilots have received false location reports or inaccurate warnings that they were flying close to terrain,…
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