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Live Updates: Aleksei Navalny Is Dead, Russian Authorities Say
[ad_1] Feb. 16, 2024, 8:48 a.m. ET Feb. 16, 2024, 8:48 a.m. ET Yulia Navalnaya with her husband, Alexei Navalny, at a rally in Moscow in 2013.Credit…Evgeny Feldman/Associated Press Reports of Aleksei A. Navalny’s death came as his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, was at a prominent security conference in Munich, meeting with European and American leaders in an effort to draw…
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Zelensky Heads to Berlin and Paris to Shore Up Support as U.S. Wavers
[ad_1] President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is making a whirlwind trip through Berlin and Paris on Friday in a bid to shore up European backing at a critical moment for his country’s fight against Russia, with United States support wavering and Ukraine desperately in need of more arms. Mr. Zelensky is expected to sign security agreements with Chancellor Olaf Scholz…
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Troops Search Nasser Hospital in Southern Gaza: Israel-Hamas Live Updates
[ad_1] A wall is going up in the desert of Egypt near the border of the war-torn Gaza Strip, but no one is talking much about it. Satellite imagery, photographs and video analyzed by The New York Times show a large patch of land being bulldozed and the wall being built in the buffer zone between Egypt and Rafah, the…
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The $2.8 Billion Hole in U.S. Sanctions on Iran
[ad_1] Tugboats maneuvered the tanker Eternal Fortune into a berth at the Kharg Island oil terminal on Oct. 28, 2023, while it was falsely broadcasting its location as in the Gulf of Oman. The vessel was insured by an American company. Maxar Technologies Tug boats maneuvered the tanker Eternal Fortune into a berth at the Kharg Island oil terminal on…
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As Gaza Death Toll Mounts, the Peace Lobby Fights for Influence in Washington
[ad_1] When the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the most influential pro-Israel group in the United States, wants to use its muscle, it can call on its considerable resources to run negative ads against lawmakers who oppose its agenda and pour money into funding a challenger. When the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker group that is pushing for…
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Four Dead At Nasser Hospital After Outage, Gaza Health Ministry Says
[ad_1] Early Friday, the Hamas-run health ministry said on its Facebook page that the hospital’s power supply had cut out, endangering the lives of six adult patients and three infants in intensive care dependent on oxygen. About 40 minutes later, it said in another post that three of the patients had died, and a few hours later, a fourth. The…
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Life Imitates Art as a ‘Master and Margarita’ Movie Stirs Russia
[ad_1] By all appearances, the movie adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s cult favorite novel “The Master and Margarita,” in Russian theaters this winter, shouldn’t be thriving in President Vladimir Putin’s wartime Russia. The director is American. One of the stars is German. The celebrated Stalin-era satire, unpublished in its time, is partly a subversive sendup of state tyranny and censorship —…
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Rishi Sunak Back in Hot Seat After Parliamentary Election Losses
[ad_1] Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain could find himself in a familiar predicament after his Conservative Party went down to defeat in parliamentary elections in two districts on Thursday: isolated, embattled and the subject of whispered plotting by restive Tories bent on pushing him out for a new leader. The crushing loss of two seats in once-reliable Conservative areas…
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Friday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] Trump’s hush-money trial to begin next month A New York judge yesterday set a March 25 trial date for Donald Trump’s hush-money case, clearing the way for the first prosecution of a former American president and ensuring that Trump will face at least one jury before Election Day. The judge rejected Trump’s bid to throw out the Manhattan district…
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Families of Seoul Crowd Crush Victims Savor a Small Win
[ad_1] Bereaved relatives of the victims of a deadly 2022 crowd crush in South Korea expressed mixed emotions this week after three former police officers were convicted of destroying evidence connected to the episode, in which nearly 160 people died in Seoul. Dissatisfaction over the slow pace of the inquiry and the perceived leniency of the sentences was mingled with…
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