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Archaeologists Look for Traces of Missing in Ashes of Hamas Oct. 7 Attack
[ad_1] Yossi Cohen, a reserve colonel overseeing the effort to identify the missing, went to what remained of Ram and Lili Itamari’s home in the southern Israeli village of Kfar Aza on Oct. 15. The visit prompted him to call the head of the Antiquities Authority and ask for archaeological assistance, he said. As Hamas gunmen stormed the village, Lili…
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Titanic Dinner Menu Is Up for Auction in England This Weekend
[ad_1] There were oysters, salmon with Hollandaise sauce, beef, squab, duck, roast chicken, green peas, parsnip purée and Victoria pudding. The feast described is not a Thanksgiving meal, but a snapshot of what first-class passengers on the Titanic ate for dinner on April 11, 1912, when the ship left Queenstown, Ireland, for New York. A menu from that night, with…
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Heirloom Opens First U.S. Direct Air Capture Plant
[ad_1] In an open-air warehouse in California’s Central Valley, 40-foot-tall racks hold hundreds of trays filled with a white powder that turns crusty as it absorbs carbon dioxide from the sky. The start-up that built the facility, Heirloom Carbon Technologies, calls it the first commercial plant in the United States to use direct air capture, which involves vacuuming greenhouse gases…
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This Is What the War in Gaza Looks Like on Instagram
[ad_1] When Hind Khoudary left home early in the war to report on the wounded and dead arriving at a Gaza City hospital, she didn’t realize it would be for the last time. While she was on assignment, Israel ordered the evacuation of residents from northern Gaza and her family joined hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing south. Ms. Khoudary,…
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How the Rollettes Dance Team Created a Sisterhood for Women with Disabilities
[ad_1] “Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places. When Chelsie Hill dances in her wheelchair, her face tells you everything. She is absorbed in the moment beyond the stage, in the emotions she’s conveying, in her power to hold the audience. Her wheelchair is an intrinsic part of her silhouette, one she manipulates with…
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Russia Tries to Lure Wagner Veterans Back Into Ukraine War
[ad_1] Russia’s armed forces are stepping up their efforts to recruit veterans of the Wagner paramilitary group, according to former fighters and military bloggers, as the Kremlin tries to avoid another round of mobilization and salvage some of the force’s fighting potential in the wake of its leader’s mutiny and death. Four former Russian inmates who fought with Wagner in…
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Italy Misses a #MeToo Moment in Prime Minister Meloni’s Breakup
[ad_1] Since Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister, announced over social media last month that she was dumping her longtime boyfriend, Italians have hardly stopped talking about it. They have obsessed over the leaks of audio and video tapes revealing Andrea Giambruno, a television news anchor who is also the father of the prime minister’s young daughter, making lewd…
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Thursday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] What lies ahead in Gaza? Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, said yesterday that Gaza should be unified with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority once the war ends, the strongest signal yet of the Biden administration’s hopes for the future of the conflict. But what Israel will do in Gaza is largely unclear. Patrick Kingsley, The…
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Can the U.S. Handle China While Supporting Israel and Ukraine Wars?
[ad_1] For some countries, the rekindled conflict over the Palestinian issue has also inflamed old beliefs that the United States is anti-Muslim, or at least too biased toward Israel. After years of watching Washington avoid confronting the often harsh mistreatment of Palestinians by both the Israeli government and extremist Israeli settlers, some no longer trust the United States to be…
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Ukraine Accuses Russia of Deadly Strike on Civilian Ship in Black Sea
[ad_1] Ukraine said on Wednesday that a Russian missile had struck a civilian ship while it was moored in a port in the Black Sea region of Odesa, killing a port pilot on board and injuring three crew members and a port worker. The Ukrainian southern military command said in a statement that an anti-radar Russian missile hit the ship’s…
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