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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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Ukraine’s Children With Special Needs Suffer the ‘Huge Pressure’ of War
[ad_1] Maksym, 13, needs a life of stability and routines, but almost two years of war in Ukraine have given him anything but that. The boy, his adult brother and his mother fled their home city, Mariupol, under Russian attack. His father was captured as a prisoner of war. And Maksym has had to live with the sounds of bomb…
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Tuesday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] The nightmare of giving birth in Gaza The streets were empty. The ambulance couldn’t come for more than half an hour, and the hospital’s maternity ward no longer functioned. The only sounds were the noises of planes and shelling. For Wajiha al-Abyad, who had fled her home weeks earlier, giving birth in Gaza last month was “something like a…
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Tuesday Briefing: OpenAI’s Future in Doubt
[ad_1] OpenAI staff threatened to leave The future of OpenAI is in jeopardy after more than 700 of its 770 employees signed a letter yesterday saying they may leave the company for Microsoft if the ousted chief executive, Sam Altman, is not reinstalled at the high-profile artificial intelligence start-up. OpenAI’s four-person board shocked the tech industry Friday afternoon when it…
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Families of Hostages in Gaza Are Desperate for Proof of Life
[ad_1] “We share the frustration. We understand the pain,” said Jason Straziuso, a spokesman for the Red Cross. “We’re not bulletproof, and it’s not possible for us to walk into a conflict zone in hostile territory without permission — to walk up to a group of people, most certainly holding guns that they will use, and demand that they let…
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Video Shows Yemen’s Houthi Militia Hijacking Ship in the Red Sea
[ad_1] Yemen’s Houthi militia released a video on Monday showing its forces hijacking the ship Galaxy Leader, a day after announcing it had seized the vessel in the Red Sea as a demonstration of support for “the oppressed Palestinian people.” The video, whose authenticity was verified by The New York Times, shows at least 10 armed men on the deck…
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Deadly Strike Rocks a Hospital in Gaza, Where Few Are Still Working
[ad_1] Another hospital in the Gaza Strip came under fire on Monday, as the World Health Organization warned that the enclave’s devastated health system had largely collapsed, with none of its functioning hospitals capable of handling complicated medical cases. At least 12 people were killed and dozens of others were wounded in the latest attack, on the Indonesian Hospital in…
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Napoleon’s Hat Sells for $2.1 Million at Auction in France
[ad_1] A black felt bicorn hat belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte sold for 1.9 million euros, or $2.1 million, at an auction in Fontainebleau, France, on Sunday, fetching the highest price ever paid for one of the 19th-century French emperor’s hats. “There is something a bit mystical about it,” said Raphaël Pitchal of the French auction house Osenat. “It has a…
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Being Born in Gaza
[ad_1] Samah Qeshta, a 29-year-old midwife, is one of about 50,000 pregnant women in the Gaza Strip relying on a health care system that has been crippled by Israel’s ongoing siege. [ad_2] Source link
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28 Premature Babies Evacuated From Al-Shifa Hospital Arrive in Egypt
[ad_1] Twenty-eight premature babies who had been in intensive care at the embattled Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza were transported across the border to Egypt for medical care on Monday, according to an Egyptian state television network, Al Qahera News. The babies had become a symbol of civilian suffering at the hospital, which was surrounded by Israeli forces last week…
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