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Gaza City Hospitals Are Caught in Deadly Crossfire
[ad_1] Gaza City’s hospitals were increasingly under siege on Friday, with hundreds of seriously ill and wounded patients and thousands of displaced people stranded on hospital grounds as intense, close-quarters combat between Israeli troops and Hamas fighters raged around them. The precarity of the hospitals was made clear early on Friday when projectiles struck inside the Al Shifa complex, Gaza’s…
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Street Battles Rage in Gaza City Ruins, as Residents Flee on Foot
[ad_1] Diarrhea, chickenpox, scabies and upper respiratory infections are rampant in a “very concerning” emergence of disease, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, adding that younger children and immunocompromised people were at particular risk. Since mid-October, more than 33,500 cases of diarrhea have been reported, more than half of them among children younger than 5, the group said. Before…
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Taylor Swift Brings Her Eras Tour to Argentina, Shaking El Monumental
[ad_1] On May 31, Florencia Romeo slept in a tent outside Argentina’s largest stadium with her girlfriend and her sister. They had heard rumors that Taylor Swift might be coming to Buenos Aires, and they wanted to be first in line. The rumors were right: Ms. Swift was coming, but it would take a while. Her concert was more than…
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Blinken Says ‘Far Too Many Palestinians Have Been Killed’ in Gaza
[ad_1] Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Friday that “far too many Palestinians have been killed” in Gaza, in the latest indication that the Biden administration is growing increasingly concerned about the civilian death toll under Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion. “Much more needs to be done to protect civilians and to make sure that humanitarian assistance reaches…
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In New York City, Antisemitic Hate Crimes Soared Last Month
[ad_1] The police in New York City are searching for vandals who scrawled “Hamas” and antisemitic graffiti on several Upper East Side apartment buildings last month amid a sharp increase in hate crimes directed at the Jewish community. The neighborhood includes a substantial Jewish population. The vandalism, which the police are investigating as a hate crime, was first reported by…
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U.S. Seeks to Resume Military Dialogue with Beijing
[ad_1] President Biden’s top military adviser has told China that the United States is open to resuming military-to-military communication that Beijing suspended last year to protest then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., told reporters on Friday that re-establishing the military dialogue between two of the world’s most…
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Megan Rapinoe, Emma Hayes and a Women’s Soccer Crossroads
[ad_1] Emma Hayes first met Megan Rapinoe before she was Megan Rapinoe. Or, rather, just as she was becoming Megan Rapinoe. She was not yet a winner of two World Cups, not yet an Olympic champion, not yet captain of her country, not yet a powerful and urgent voice away from the field. Rapinoe was not even a professional soccer…
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Gonorrhea Is Becoming Drug Resistant. Scientists Just Found a Solution.
[ad_1] Why It Matters: Gonorrhea is a major global problem. With more than 82 million new infections recorded worldwide in 2020, gonorrhea is among the most common sexually transmitted diseases. The pathogen, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, spreads through sexual contact to the genitals, rectum and throat. About half of infected people show no symptoms, but in others gonorrhea can lead to painful…
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Prince Harry Can Proceed With a Lawsuit Against Daily Mail Publisher
[ad_1] Prince Harry and other celebrities can proceed with their case against the Daily Mail’s publisher, a British judge ruled on Friday, paving the way for a lengthy court battle over phone hacking and other alleged violations of privacy. The lawsuit, against Associated Newspapers Limited, the publisher of The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, is one of…
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Biden and Xi to Seek to Stabilize Relations in California Meeting
[ad_1] President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China plan to meet in California on Wednesday, for a discussion that Mr. Biden’s advisers say is meant to stabilize relations even as it features a host of topics on which the two fiercely competitive countries disagree. The Biden administration, which formally announced the meeting on Friday morning, said the two leaders…
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