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U.K. Royal Line of Succession: Who Will Take Over After King Charles III?
[ad_1] King Charles III has announced he will step back from public appearances while being treated for cancer. That’s likely to mean a more prominent role for other senior members of the royal family, particularly his elder son, Prince William, who is next in line to the throne. Here’s the current line of succession. Source: Buckingham Palace [ad_2] Source link
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Internal Israeli Report Says a Fifth of the Remaining Hostages Have Died
[ad_1] More than a fifth of the remaining hostages being held in Gaza are dead, according to an internal assessment conducted by the Israeli military. Israeli intelligence officers have concluded that at least 32 of the remaining 136 hostages captured by Hamas and its allies on Oct. 7 have died since the start of the war, according to a confidential…
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After the Quake: One Turkish Family’s Year-Long Struggle
[ad_1] Mashallah! Mashallah! Karapirli family — Mashallah! was an ordinary Turkish middle-class family. They were having kids — two boys and toddler twins. They were thriving. Goal! [screaming] And then the quake happened. Me and my colleague Ben Hubbard, we just reached the quake-hit area, and then we just saw this pancaked building. The Karapirli family remained under the rubble…
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Kenyan Cult Leader Is Charged in the Deaths of 191 Children
[ad_1] A doomsday cult leader whom the Kenyan authorities say ordered his congregants to starve themselves to death was charged on Tuesday, along with 29 others, with the murder of 191 children — in a case that has drawn global attention and brought widespread scrutiny over religious freedoms in the East African nation. The decision, by a court in the…
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King Charles’s Cancer Diagnosis May Reshape How U.K. Monarchy Works
[ad_1] Queen Elizabeth II liked to say that she needed to be seen to be believed. Now it falls to her son King Charles III to test that principle, after a cancer diagnosis that will force him out of the public eye for the foreseeable future. For a family that has cultivated its public image through thousands of appearances a…
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Federal Records Show Increasing Use of Solitary Confinement for Immigrants
[ad_1] The United States government has placed detained immigrants in solitary confinement more than 14,000 times in the last five years, and the average duration is almost twice the 15-day threshold that the United Nations has said may constitute torture, according to a new analysis of federal records by researchers at Harvard and the nonprofit group Physicians for Human Rights.…
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King Charles Has Cancer. Here’s What to Know.
[ad_1] On Monday night, Buckingham Palace made a sudden announcement that King Charles III had been diagnosed with cancer, less than 18 months after beginning his reign. He is receiving outpatient treatment in London. The British monarch’s diagnosis prompted an outpouring of sympathy from leaders around the world, with President Biden saying that he was praying for “a swift and…
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Israel-Hamas War and Middle East News: Latest Updates
[ad_1] American warplanes destroyed or severely damaged most of the Iranian and militia targets they struck in Syria and Iraq on Friday, according to the Pentagon, the first major salvos in what President Biden and his aides have said will be a sustained campaign. Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said on Monday that “more than 80”…
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Houthi Attacks and U.S.-Led Strikes Dash Hopes for Quick Yemen Peace Deal
[ad_1] For nine years, Yemen was torn by a war that erupted when the Houthis, a Yemeni militia supported by Iran, ousted the government and took control of the country’s northwest. Alarmed by an Iran-linked group taking control across the border, Saudi Arabia assembled a military coalition and launched a bombing campaign, backed by American weapons and support, in an…
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A Russian Bank Account May Offer Clues to a North Korean Arms Deal
[ad_1] Russia has allowed the release of millions of dollars in frozen North Korean assets and may be helping its isolated ally with access to international banking networks, assistance that has come after the North’s transfer of weapons to Moscow for use against Ukraine, according to American-allied intelligence officials. The White House said last month that it had evidence that…
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