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Discontent and Defiance on the Road to Pakistan’s Election
[ad_1] The highway is the most politically charged slice of a politically turbulent country. It winds 180 miles from Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, through the fertile plains of Punjab Province to Lahore, the nation’s cultural and political heart. For centuries, it was known only as a sliver of the Grand Trunk Road, Asia’s longest and oldest thoroughfare, linking traders in Central…
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Tuesday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] King Charles has cancer Less than 18 months into his reign, Britain’s King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer. The announcement came from Buckingham Palace a week after the 75-year-old sovereign left a London hospital after a procedure to treat an enlarged prostate. The palace did not disclose what type of cancer Charles has, but a palace official…
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Blinken’s Mideast visit and U.S. aid to Israel are the focus in Washington this week.
[ad_1] A trip back to the Middle East by the United States’ top diplomat to continue talks on a possible cease-fire deal highlights a week of high-level wrangling over the war in Gaza and beyond. Starting on Monday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is expected to visit Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank on his…
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U.S. Strikes Hit Most of Targets in Iraq and Syria, Pentagon Says
[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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U.K.’s Rishi Sunak Visits Northern Ireland to Celebrate Deal
[ad_1] Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain took an unaccustomed victory lap on Monday, visiting Belfast to celebrate the restoration of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government. His ministers struck a deal last week that brought the North’s disaffected unionists back into the territory’s assembly. For Mr. Sunak, who is embattled on so many other fronts, it was a rare unalloyed success…
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Senegal Parliament Delays Elections Until December After Opposition Showdown
[ad_1] Senegal’s Parliament voted late Monday to delay elections until December, after opposition lawmakers seeking to block the vote were thrown out of the National Assembly. The vote came after President Macky Sall last week postponed the upcoming ballot, a move critics condemned as an “institutional coup.” Voters had been preparing to go to the polls on Feb. 25, until…
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Blinken Meets Saudi Crown Prince on Mideast Push for Pause in Gaza War
[ad_1] Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken began a diplomatic push in the Middle East on Monday for a deal that would pause the war in the Gaza Strip and release the hostages there, even as a drone struck a military base used by American troops and allied forces in eastern Syria. Mr. Blinken, making his fifth trip to the…
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UNRWA, Aid Agency in Gaza, Set to Lose $65 Million, Documents Show
[ad_1] The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the main aid agency in Gaza, is set to lose $65 million by the end of February as donors’ funding cuts begin to kick in, according to internal accounting documents reviewed by The New York Times. At least 18 states or institutions, including many of the agency’s biggest funders, announced they were…
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Tragedy, Resilience and a Miracle at Chile’s Burned Botanical Garden
[ad_1] On Friday afternoon, several hundred people were roaming the idyllic grounds of Chile’s national botanical garden, mostly unaware that, just across some hills and a highway, a raging wildfire was galloping toward them. The danger quickly became clear. Rangers began racing around the park on motorbikes, shouting for visitors to flee to the exits. But by the time many…
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Tuesday Briefing: Blinken’s High-Stakes Middle East Trip
[ad_1] Blinken began a push for the latest cease-fire deal Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, landed in Saudi Arabia yesterday, beginning his visit to the Middle East. He is trying to prevent the Israel-Hamas conflict from becoming a broader regional war — and to rally allies around a proposal to release hostages in Gaza. Here’s the latest. Blinken’s…
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