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Inside the Hospitals Treating Brain Injuries in Ukraine
[ad_1] Mykhaylo Bielov, 31, a soldier with Ukraine’s national guard, was defending the eastern city of Bakhmut on Dec. 31, 2022, when a Russian grenade exploded above his head. “I remember a white light and how it went out,” he said. “I remember putting out the fire on my uniform and spitting out my tooth.” Emergency surgery at Mechnikov Hospital…
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Israel-Hamas War Cease-Fire Talks: Latest Updates
[ad_1] Senior Israeli, Qatari, U.S. and Egyptian officials will meet in Paris on Friday to attempt to advance a deal for a cease-fire and the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, an Israeli official and a person briefed on the talks said on Thursday. The news came after President Biden’s Mideast envoy met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Fire in High-Rise Apartment Complex Kills at Least 4 in Valencia, Spain
[ad_1] The leader of the regional government in Valencia, Spain, announced a three-day period of mourning on Friday after a fire in a high-rise residential complex killed at least four people. Firefighters and police officers rushed to the scene shortly after 5.30 p.m. on Thursday as the fire engulfed the entire pair of buildings, one of which was 14 stories…
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France Will Cut Spending as It Sees a Weaker Economy Ahead
[ad_1] France is entering an era of belt-tightening, as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, economic slowdowns in Germany and China and record-high interest rates take a bigger-than-expected toll on growth. The French will find themselves faced with cuts of 10 billion euros ($10.8 billion) in government spending, on items including environmental subsidies and education, the government announced Thursday, on…
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Can Gabriel Attal Win Over France?
[ad_1] Gabriel Attal, 34, is a new kind of French prime minister, more inclined to Diet Coke than a good Burgundy, at home with social media and revelations about his personal life, a natural communicator who reels off one liners like “France rhymes with power” to assert his “authority,” a favorite word. Since taking office in early January, the boyish-looking…
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Visiting Ukraine, Schumer Aims to Pressure G.O.P. to Take Up Aid Bill
[ad_1] Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, is traveling to Ukraine on Friday for a visit meant to show American solidarity with a democratic ally under attack by Russia and increase the pressure on Republicans to drop their opposition to additional U.S. aid. The trip, Mr. Schumer’s first official one to Ukraine, comes at a critical time, as a foreign…
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The Regional Immigration Realities That Australia’s Politicians Overlook
[ad_1] Haloti Kailahi, president of the Pacific Islands Council of Northern Territory, said that incredible amounts of paperwork, employment term limits of four years, and sustained isolation from family members (who are ineligible to come with the workers) were “significant roadblocks” at odds with remote areas’ dire need for skills and employee retention. Ultimately, Mr. Kailahi said, migration policy has…
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Friday Briefing
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Friday Briefing: Two Years of War in Ukraine
[ad_1] Two years of war in Ukraine Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Two years later, the war is in an uncertain phase. Ukraine exceeded the expectations of many around the world by surviving and then driving back Russian forces in the first year of the war. But the second year was largely defined by brutal clashes, with no…
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Biden Lawyers Wrestle With Lack of Congressional Blessing for Houthi Conflict
[ad_1] The large-scale military strikes the United States has directed at the Houthis, an Iran-backed militant group in Yemen that has disrupted shipping in the Red Sea, has forced the Biden administration to wrestle over what it can do without congressional approval. The question has helped fuel at least two major legal policy dilemmas, according to officials familiar with internal…
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