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Israeli Settlers Left Gaza in 2005. They Now See a Chance to Return.
[ad_1] A group of Israelis hoping to live in Gaza at the war’s end has already published maps imagining Jewish-majority towns dotting the territory. Far-right Israeli lawmakers have drafted plans to make such settlements legal. And Israel’s national security minister has called for Arab residents to leave Gaza so that Jews can populate the coastal strip. After four months of…
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Pakistan Is Stunned as Early Election Results Look Like a Real Race
[ad_1] Pakistani voters on Friday were anxiously awaiting the final results of a national election that has stunned many in the country by denying Pakistan’s powerful military a widely expected landslide victory for its preferred party. That party, led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, remained the front-runner as preliminary totals trickled in a day after the voting. But the…
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Friday Briefing: Will Trump Be Allowed to Hold Office Again?
[ad_1] Will Trump be allowed to hold office again? The Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical of arguments to kick Donald Trump off state ballots and disqualify him from holding office because of his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. The State Supreme Court in Colorado ruled in December that Trump’s conduct in trying to subvert the 2020 race made him…
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Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky Takes Over at a Fraught Time for Ukraine’s Military
[ad_1] Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, who was appointed commander of the Ukrainian military on Thursday, led two successful counteroffensives in the war against Russia before his troops became bogged down in one of the most contentious and costly battles of the conflict. It was a strung-out, vicious spell of urban combat in the eastern city of Bakhmut last winter, and even…
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The Land of Ferrari and Lamborghini Has a New Speed Limit: 30 K.P.H.
[ad_1] When Bologna became the first major Italian city to impose a speed limit of 30 kilometers, or 20 miles, an hour, Luca Mazzoli, a local taxi driver, posted a sign in his cab warning passengers of the change. He had to, he said grumpily the other day, “to explain why I am driving so slowly.” Since the limit became…
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Friday Briefing
[ad_1] A special counsel clears Biden. [ad_2] Source link
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Biden Sharpens Criticism of Israel, Calling Gaza Response ‘Over the Top’
[ad_1] President Biden sharply escalated his criticism of Israel’s approach to the war against Hamas on Thursday, calling military operations in Gaza “over the top” and saying that the suffering of innocent people has “got to stop.” Mr. Biden, who has strongly supported Israel’s right to retaliate for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas that killed an estimated 1,200…
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As Fears Rise, Some Australians Seek U.S.-China Détente
[ad_1] Growing up at the end of the Cold War in the United States, I remember a constant low-level hum of fear about a potential war with Russia and quite possibly a nuclear war. Russians were the villains in our movies. Mushroom clouds haunted our dreams. Now, for many of us and maybe you, a new version of those anxieties…
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Israel Strikes Rafah as Negotiators Try to Revive Gaza Cease-Fire Talks
[ad_1] Airstrikes hit a southern Gaza border city crowded with civilians on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced a cease-fire proposal by Hamas and signaled that the Israeli military was preparing to move into the area. The strikes on two houses in Rafah killed and injured multiple people, according to Palestinian news outlets, and heightened fears among…
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Trump, Putin, Carlson and the Shifting Sands of Today’s American Politics
[ad_1] The idea was to isolate him, to make him a pariah, to put him in a box as punishment for brazen violations of international law. They kicked him out of their world leaders’ clubhouse, cut off his country’s economy, even issued an arrest warrant against him for war crimes. But Vladimir V. Putin does not look all that isolated…
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