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What I’m Reading: A History Of Forced Population Transfers
[ad_1] When I’m trying to get my head around a topic, I often like to approach it somewhat diagonally: reading not just about the thing in question, but also about similar problems that have come up around the world. So after briefly writing about the issue of forced population transfer in Gaza a few weeks ago, I picked up “Making…
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Satellite images show Israeli tanks 600 feet from Al-Shifa Hospital
[ad_1] Satellite images show that Israeli forces are stationed one block from Al-Shifa, the biggest hospital in Gaza City, an area that has been the site of intensified fighting in recent days. The Times obtained and analyzed the images, taken Tuesday by a commercial satellite image provider, that show Israeli armored vehicles, likely tanks, 600 feet southwest of the hospital…
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So Thieves Nabbed Your Catalytic Converter. Here’s Where It Ended Up.
[ad_1] One morning in September, a truck disgorged its load of pulverized rock with a resounding bang inside Stillwater Mining’s metallurgical plant north of Yellowstone National Park. The mined ore contains platinum, palladium and rhodium, three of the earth’s rarest, most expensive metals — and vital components in the millions of catalytic converters that reduce polluting emissions from gasoline-powered vehicles.…
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Sailors Trade Tips on How to Stop Orca Attacks on Boats
[ad_1] The first time orcas appeared near his catamaran, Florian Rutsch was surprised, but prepared. Like many venturing around the Iberian Peninsula, Mr. Rutsch had browsed Facebook groups, Telegram chats and other online platforms where sailors have been swapping tips on a relatively recent phenomenon: How do you get orcas to leave your boat alone? In May, when the crew…
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Biden’s Goal in Meeting With Xi: Avoid a Spiraling Conflict
[ad_1] When President Biden meets President Xi Jinping of China at a lush estate on the edge of Silicon Valley on Wednesday, his primary goal will be simple: find a way to avoid an increasingly bitter competition with China from tipping into conflict. For two leaders who have agreed on very little as their nations have spiraled into their worst…
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Is Argentina the First A.I. Election?
[ad_1] The posters dotting the streets of Buenos Aires had a certain Soviet flare to them. There was one of Argentina’s presidential candidates, Sergio Massa, dressed in a shirt with what appeared to be military medals, pointing to a blue sky. He was surrounded by hundreds of older people — in drab clothing, with serious, and often disfigured, faces —…
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How FIFA Handed Saudi Arabia the 2034 World Cup
[ad_1] As the world reeled from the coronavirus crisis in the fall of 2020, the president of soccer’s global governing body, Gianni Infantino, headed to Rome for an audience with Italy’s prime minister. Wearing masks and bumping elbows, Mr. Infantino, the president of FIFA, and the prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, greeted each other in front of journalists before disappearing with…
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With 102 Workers Killed, U.N. Agency in Gaza Struggles to Provide Aid
[ad_1] Nearly all of the agency’s funding comes from donations from countries including the United States, Germany and the European Union, but it has been struggling financially for years. UNRWA entered 2023 with $75 million in debt and asked donors for $1.6 billion for its yearly budget, Ms. Touma said. But it had received less than half of that when…
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U.K. Supreme Court to Rule on Deporting Asylum Seekers to Rwanda
[ad_1] Britain’s Supreme Court will rule on Wednesday whether the government’s contentious policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful, in a pivotal moment for the ruling Conservative Party during an already turbulent week. The Rwanda policy was first announced in April 2022 by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as he attempted to make good on a Brexit campaign promise…
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Wednesday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] Israel says it is inside Gaza hospital The Israeli military said early this morning that its troops were raiding Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, a complex of buildings where thousands of people have sheltered and conditions for patients have grown increasingly grim as supplies have dwindled. Fighting has been raging nearby for days, and the hospital was struck at least four…
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