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Wednesday Briefing
[ad_1] A court rejects Donald Trump’s immunity claim. [ad_2] Source link
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A Year After a Devastating Quake: Container Cities, Trials and Grief
[ad_1] At 4:17 a.m. on Tuesday, thousands of people in cities across southern Turkey gathered to cry, light candles and chant against the government, marking the moment a year ago that a powerful earthquake devastated the region. The 7.8-magnitude quake, and a second violent tremor hours later, damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings, killing more than 53,000 people…
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Blinken Says ‘Agreement Is Possible’ With Hamas on a Hostage Deal
[ad_1] new video loaded: Blinken Says ‘Agreement Is Possible’ With Hamas on a Hostage Deal transcript Back transcript Blinken Says ‘Agreement Is Possible’ With Hamas on a Hostage Deal Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken cautioned that there was still “a lot of work to be done,” as the United States and its allies prepare to review Hamas’s response to…
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Sebastián Piñera, Former President of Chile, Dies in Helicopter Crash
[ad_1] Sebastián Piñera, a former president of Chile who helped strengthen the nation’s young democracy after becoming its first conservative leader since a military dictatorship, died in a helicopter crash in Chile on Tuesday, the government said. He was 74. The helicopter, carrying four people, crashed into Lake Ranco in the Los Ríos region in southern Chile about 3:30 p.m.…
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Making Farming More Climate Friendly Is Hard. Just Ask Europe’s Politicians.
[ad_1] The farmers’ protests in Europe are a harbinger of the next big political challenge in global climate action: How to grow food without further damaging Earth’s climate and biodiversity. On Tuesday, after weeks of intense protests in several cities across the continent, came the most explicit sign of that difficulty. The European Union’s top official, Ursula von der Leyen,…
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Hamas Gives ‘Positive’ Reply to Gaza Truce Plan, but Odds Remain Murky
[ad_1] “There’s a lot of work to be done, but we continue to believe that an agreement is possible and indeed essential, and we will continue to work relentlessly to achieve it,” Mr. Blinken said. The Hamas reply came as something of a surprise to Mr. Blinken and the White House, who had little time to review it before being…
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Biden Criticizes Republicans for Blocking Bill With Aid for Israel and Gaza
[ad_1] President Biden criticized Republican lawmakers on Tuesday for attempting to thwart bipartisan legislation that would overhaul the nation’s immigration system and, among other things, authorize billions of dollars in aid for Israel. In a televised speech from the White House, Mr. Biden said that opposing the bill would deny military assistance to Israel and humanitarian aid to Palestinian people,…
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Tucker Carlson Says He Will Soon Interview Putin
[ad_1] President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia will “soon” sit for an interview with Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host said on Tuesday, a sign that the Russian leader is seeking to make a direct appeal to American conservatives as U.S. aid to Ukraine hangs in the balance. “We’re here to interview the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin,” Mr.…
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Displaced Gazans Wonder Where to Go as Israel Keeps Pushing Into Rafah
[ad_1] Over the past day, Israeli forces have hit structures across Gaza, including in the vicinity of the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern city of Khan Younis, the second-largest hospital in the territory. The Israeli army said its forces were continuing to fight militants in western Khan Younis. It also said it conducted an airstrike that killed an Islamic…
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King Pushed for Transparency on Diagnosis, Raising More Questions in the Process
[ad_1] When Buckingham Palace announced on Monday that King Charles III had been diagnosed with cancer and would halt his public engagements to undergo treatment, it predictably set off a storm of questions. What kind of cancer? How advanced? What form of treatment? How long would he be sidelined? And the essential, if often unspoken, question when a patient faces…
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