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January Temperatures Hit Record Highs on Land and at Sea
[ad_1] The exceptional warmth that first enveloped the planet last summer is continuing strong into 2024: Last month clocked in as the hottest January ever measured, the European Union climate monitor announced on Thursday. It was the hottest January on record for the oceans, too, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Sea surface temperatures were just slightly…
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Canadian Is Sentenced to 14 Years for Passing Along State Secrets
[ad_1] A former civilian director of an elite intelligence unit in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Wednesday after his conviction last year of giving confidential operational information to four men who were targets of police investigations. The sentence is half of what prosecutors had sought for the intelligence official, Cameron Ortis, whose…
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Ukraine Worries About Losing Its Biggest Weapon: U.S. Military Aid
[ad_1] In the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Ukraine has had its back to the wall many times, in many forms: fighting with Molotov cocktails and guns handed out to the population, coping with blackouts and fleeing refugees. But there was always the prospect of more American aid on the horizon. That support was critical, analysts and…
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Halted Deportation Flights to Venezuela Set Back Biden’s Migrant Strategy
[ad_1] When deportation flights from the United States to Venezuela resumed last fall after four years, it was a move meant to show that President Biden was aggressively tackling the record numbers of crossings at the U.S. southern border. The expulsions were also meant to deter other Venezuelans who might be considering the journey. But on Wednesday, for the second…
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What Happens if U.S. Support for Ukraine Collapses?
[ad_1] A year ago, when Washington and much of Europe were still awash in optimism that Ukraine was on the verge of repelling Russia from its territory, it seemed inconceivable that the United States would turn its back on the victim of Vladimir V. Putin’s aggression. Now, even as Senate Democrats try to salvage an aid package for Ukraine, that…
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U.S. Strike in Baghdad Kills Iranian-Backed Militia Commander
[ad_1] A U.S. retaliatory strike in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday killed a senior leader of a militia that U.S. officials blame for recent attacks on American personnel, the Pentagon said, following up on President Biden’s promise that the response to a slew of attacks by Shiite militias would continue. The Pentagon said the man was a leader of Kata’ib…
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Digital Art Group Reconstructs a 43-Foot Ancient Roman Statue
[ad_1] new video loaded: Digital Art Group Reconstructs a 43-Foot Ancient Roman Statue transcript Back transcript Digital Art Group Reconstructs a 43-Foot Ancient Roman Statue Factom Foundation, a Madrid-based digital art group, analyzed 10 fragments from a sculpture of Constantine the Great, a fourth-century Roman emperor, to create a 1:1 replica. The process basically begins with the high-resolution photogrammetry. So…
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Rome’s Ancient Grandeur Towers Anew With a Copy of a Colossus
[ad_1] It may not be authentic, exactly, or very old at all. But the colossal statue of a fourth-century emperor, Constantine the Great, is a newly erected monument to Rome if nothing else: a homage to the ancient city’s grandeur, and of its endless capacity to remake itself. In this case, the remaking was literal. Towering over visitors, the 43-foot…
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Sweden Closes Investigation Into Nord Stream Pipeline Explosions
[ad_1] After investigators delved into a series of undersea explosions that blew apart the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines linking Russia to Western Europe in fall 2022, intelligence agencies came to a general agreement: The evidence pointed toward pro-Ukraine forces, even if the question of who might have been directing them remained a mystery. In Sweden, in whose economic zone…
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Iraq Hosts Both U.S. and Iranian-Backed Forces. It’s Getting Tense.
[ad_1] For years, Iraq has managed to pull off an unlikely balancing act, allowing armed forces tied to both the United States and Iran, an American nemesis, to operate on its soil. Now things are getting shaky. When Washington, Tehran and Baghdad all wanted the same thing — the defeat of the Islamic State terrorist group — the relationships were…
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