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Hard Lessons Make for Hard Choices 2 Years Into the War in Ukraine
[ad_1] Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States has the capacity to keep Kyiv supplied with the weapons, technology and intelligence to fend off a takeover by Moscow. But Washington is now perceived around Europe to have lost its will. The Europeans, in contrast, have the will — they just committed another $54 billion to reconstruct the…
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Shamima Begum Loses Appeal Over British Citizenship
[ad_1] Shamima Begum, who traveled from her home in London to Syria with two friends in 2015 when she was a teenager to join the Islamic State terrorist group, has lost her latest bid to regain her British citizenship. Britain’s Court of Appeal on Friday upheld an earlier tribunal’s ruling that a decision by the government in 2019 to strip…
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For Many Ukrainians, It’s a 10-Year Anniversary of War
[ad_1] They were a ragtag army, fighting with baseball bats, Molotov cocktails and plywood shields. But for Ukrainians, the protesters who faced off with riot police on Kyiv’s main square a decade ago were the first soldiers in a war still raging today. The demonstrators were part of the Maidan uprising of 2014, when Ukrainians took to the streets to…
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Fire Engulfs High-Rise Complex in Spain
[ad_1] Several people were killed and over a dozen were missing after a fire ripped through a residential complex in Valencia, Spain. Video shows rescuers working to save residents from a balcony after being trapped by flames. [ad_2] Source link
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On the Front Lines of the Food Crisis in Northern Gaza
[ad_1] Palestinians sheltering in a school in the Jabaliya camp, in northern Gaza, say critical food shortages have left some residents “on the verge of death.” [ad_2] Source link
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Russia’s Brutal War Calculus – The New York Times
[ad_1] Two years of war have remade Russia. Isolated from the West, it is now more dependent on China. Political repression is reminiscent of the grim days of the Soviet Union. But Russia is not the economic shambles many in the West predicted when they imposed punishing sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. Many Russians are pulling down their highest…
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German Lawmakers Move Closer to Legalizing Marijuana
[ad_1] Lawmakers in Germany approved legalization of limited amounts of cannabis for recreational use on Friday, bringing the country a step closer to becoming one of the few European nations — and by far the largest — to do so. “By legalizing it, we are taking cannabis out of the taboo zone,” Karl Lauterbach, who as health minister is largely…
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Biden Announces Major New Sanctions on Russia After Navalny’s Death
[ad_1] The United States on Friday unleashed its most extensive package of sanctions on Russia since the invasion of Ukraine two years ago, targeting Russia’s financial sector and military-industrial complex in a broad effort to degrade the Kremlin’s war machine. The sweeping sanctions come as the war enters its third year, and exactly one week after the death of the…
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Africa’s Donkeys Are Coveted by China. Can the Continent Protect Them?
[ad_1] For years, Chinese companies and their contractors have been slaughtering millions of donkeys across Africa, coveting gelatin from the animals’ hides that is processed into traditional medicines, popular sweets and beauty products in China. But a growing demand for the gelatin has decimated donkey populations at such alarming rates in African countries that governments are now moving to put…
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Netanyahu Issues First Plan for Postwar Gaza
[ad_1] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel released on Friday his most detailed proposal yet for a postwar Gaza, pledging to retain indefinite military control over the enclave, while ceding the administration of civilian life to Gazans without links to Hamas. The plan, if realized, would make it almost impossible to establish a Palestinian state including Gaza and the Israeli-occupied…
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