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Ship Attacked by Houthis in Red Sea Is Still Afloat, Its Operator Says
[ad_1] A cargo ship struck by a Houthi missile in the Red Sea this week is partly submerged but still afloat, its operator said on Friday, having survived what appeared to be the Houthis’ most damaging attack yet. The vessel, called the Rubymar, will soon be towed to Djibouti or Aden, a port city in Yemen, where its remaining cargo…
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Blinken Says New Israeli Settlements in West Bank Are Illegal, Reversing Trump Policy
[ad_1] Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Friday that the American government now considers new Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories to be “inconsistent with international law,” marking a reversal of a policy set under the Trump administration and a return to a decades-long U.S. position on the contentious subject. Mr. Blinken spoke at a news conference in Buenos…
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Head of U.N. Palestinian Aid Agency in Gaza Warns It Is at ‘Breaking Point’
[ad_1] The main United Nations aid agency that serves Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and elsewhere in the region has “reached a breaking point,” its leader has warned, as donors have pulled funding from the agency and Israel imposed further restrictions on its operations and called for its closure. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, the…
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Blinken: New Israeli Settlements Are ‘Inconsistent with International Law’
[ad_1] new video loaded: Blinken: New Israeli Settlements Are ‘Inconsistent with International Law’ transcript Back transcript Blinken: New Israeli Settlements Are ‘Inconsistent with International Law’ Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said the United States considers the building of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories illegal and “counterproductive to reaching an enduring peace.” On settlements, we’ve seen the reports and I…
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Russian Authorities Threaten to Bury Navalny on Prison Grounds, Aides Say
[ad_1] Russian authorities have warned Aleksei A. Navalny’s mother that if she doesn’t agree to a secret funeral, the late opposition campaigner will be buried by the state on prison grounds, according to Mr. Navalny’s spokeswoman. Lyudmila Navalnaya, Mr. Navalny’s mother, was given three hours to agree to the ultimatum but she refused to negotiate, arguing that Russian authorities had…
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Alfred Grosser, Champion of French-German Reconciliation, Dies at 99
[ad_1] Alfred Grosser, a French political scientist and historian whose writings and activism played a major role in conciliating two ancestral enemies, France and Germany, in the wake of World War II, died on Feb. 7 in Paris. He was 99. His death, in a nursing home, was confirmed by his son Marc. Through more than two dozen books of…
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How Netanyahu’s Plan for Gaza Clashes With U.S. and International Hopes
[ad_1] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s framework released Friday for a postwar order in Gaza appeared to keep his government on a collision course with the United States and much of the rest of the world over the enclave’s future. Here are some of the major points of friction between what the Israeli leader has proposed and what other governments have…
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Want to Play in the Asian Champions League? It Will Cost You.
[ad_1] At least nobody can accuse Asia’s soccer authorities of failing to sweat the small stuff. It would be easy to overlook the little things, after all, when their job is to nurture and promote the most popular sport on the planet for the benefit of almost five billion people spread across a third of the world’s landmass. In many…
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Argentina’s Leader Meets With Blinken, as He Heads to Meet Tump
[ad_1] President Javier Milei of Argentina hosted U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken in Buenos Aires on Friday morning to discuss the various ways Mr. Milei is reshaping Argentina foreign policy in line with the United States. A few hours later, both men were set to board separate planes for Washington. Mr. Blinken was going back to the White…
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Swedish Premier Visits Hungary to Discuss Stalled NATO Bid
[ad_1] In an effort to remove a final obstacle blocking his country’s admission to NATO, the prime minister of Sweden traveled to Hungary on Friday for talks that his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, said would smooth the Nordic nation’s entry into the military alliance and commit it to a “military-industrial and military agreement” with Hungary. Hungary, the last holdout on…
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