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Russia Sentences Activist to Penal Colony for Antiwar Notes on Price Tags
[ad_1] A Russian court has sentenced a pacifist artist to seven years in a penal colony for leaving price tags with small antiwar messages in a supermarket, the latest example of the Kremlin’s resolve to stamp out opposition to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The artist, Aleksandra Y. Skochilenko, 33, was found guilty on Thursday of spreading false information about the…
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Celebrity Campaign Shines Spotlight on New Zealand Bird Contest
[ad_1] The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. Like so many modern elections, the poll to decide New Zealand’s favorite bird has, in past years, been beset by accusations of vote rigging, foreign influence and debates about candidates’ eligibility. But this year, the Bird of the Century contest has…
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Everton Stripped of 10 Points in Premier League, Deepening Team’s Crisis
[ad_1] Everton, a founding member of England’s Premier League that has fallen into financial crisis, faced yet more pain on Friday after it was given a 10-point penalty for breaching the league’s economic rules. The punishment sent Everton to the bottom of the league standings and left it facing the threat of relegation from England’s top division at the end…
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Iceland Works to Protect Power Plant as it Awaits a Volcanic Eruption
[ad_1] Iceland is fortifying a power plant that supplies electricity and hot water to about 30,000 people and is continuing to allow the residents of the evacuated town most at risk to go in one by one and gather personal belongings as the country waits for a possible volcanic eruption. The work on the power plant is a preventive measure…
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A Dying Anticorruption Crusader Considers His Life’s Own Misdeeds
[ad_1] His anticorruption crusade has made him a household name in Thailand, but Chuwit Kamolvisit would be the first to tell you that his own life has been neither admirable nor one others should emulate. A self-professed “super pimp” — and known to others as “the godfather of sex” — Mr. Chuwit, 62, once owned six massage parlors in Bangkok…
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Israeli and Palestinian Activists Ask Americans to Take Side of Peace
[ad_1] It’s a message that has not been prominently heard or seen in many American protests and rallies. Most events have taken place under an Israeli or Palestinian flag, focusing on one people’s pain, struggle or victimhood. That type of narrow approach can erase everything around it, said Cara Raich, a conflict adviser based in New York. “As with most…
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In Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Leaves Raw Wounds
[ad_1] The commander of the victorious army watched on in triumph as his troops goose-stepped in columns through the central square of the former breakaway capital they had captured in a brazen attack just weeks before. The commander, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, was taking a victory lap last week around the Nagorno-Karabakh city of Stepanakert, also known as Khankendi,…
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Friday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] Satellite images of the Al-Shifa hospital complex, compiled using photos and videos released by the Israeli military, statements from health officials in Gaza and images from Maxar Technologies.Credit…The New York Times Israel raids Al-Shifa for a second day Two days into its search of the Al-Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza, the Israeli military offered video of weapons it said…
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Gaza Is Plunged Into a Communications Blackout Amid a Severe Fuel Shortage
[ad_1] The Gaza Strip was in a communications blackout on Thursday, leaving most of the more than two million people in the enclave cut off from the outside world amid an escalating Israeli ground operation and relentless bombardment. Two major Palestinian mobile networks, Jawwal and Paltel, said that “all telecom services” in the besieged strip were out of service “as…
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Friday Briefing: Israel Continues to Search Al-Shifa
[ad_1] Israeli forces search Al-Shifa for the second day Israeli soldiers yesterday were still combing Al-Shifa Hospital, which the Israeli military has said concealed a secret Hamas base. The Gaza health ministry said that thousands of people remained inside the Al-Shifa Hospital compound with little food and water. A communications blackout swept through Gaza, making it exceedingly difficult to reach…
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