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The Common Threads in Chile’s Fires and California Floods: El Niño and Warming
[ad_1] Two places renowned for what one scientist described as “benign Mediterranean climates” are being put to the test this week as an overheated climate and an El Niño weather cycle collude to bring dangerous, record-breaking rains to California and deadly fires in Chile. Several counties in Central and Southern California were under a state of emergency on Monday, with…
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King Charles Is Diagnosed With Cancer
[ad_1] King Charles III has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and is suspending his public engagements to undergo treatment, casting a shadow over a busy reign that began barely 18 months ago. The announcement, made by Buckingham Palace on Monday evening, came a week after the 75-year-old sovereign was discharged from a London hospital, following a procedure to…
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Scientists Use Sea Sponges to Study Global Warming Back to 1700
[ad_1] Since the dawn of the industrial age, our species has warmed the planet by considerably more than today’s most widely accepted estimates imply, according to a team of scientists who have gleaned detailed new information about Earth’s past climate from an unusual source: centuries-old sponges living in the Caribbean Sea. Networks of satellites and sensors have measured the rising…
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Yandex Reaches $5 Billion Deal to Exit Russia
[ad_1] The parent firm of Russia’s most prominent technology company, Yandex, said it has agreed to sell all its assets in the country for about $5 billion, which would be one of the largest corporate exits from Russia since its invasion of Ukraine. The invasion had roiled Yandex — often referred to as “Russia’s Google” — and turned its attempts…
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Canadian Hockey Players to Face Sexual Assault Hearing
[ad_1] At the Leon’s Centre arena, home to the junior hockey team in Kingston, Ontario, a sense of outrage mixed with anticipation as fans who had gathered for a game grappled with the news that five former Canadian junior hockey players — four of whom played in the National Hockey League — had been charged last week with sexual assault.…
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Snow and Rain Disrupt China’s Lunar New Year Travel Rush
[ad_1] Snow and freezing rain in China were disrupting travel on Monday and had already caused hundreds of rail and flight cancellations, as millions of people traveled across the country before lunar new year holiday begins this weekend. For many years, heavy travel within and into China ahead of the holiday, known as Spring Festival in Chinese, produced the world’s…
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Parisians Vote to Triple Parking Fees for Some S.U.V.s
[ad_1] Voters in Paris have approved an effort to drastically increase parking fees for large sport utility vehicles and other heavy cars, the latest move by Mayor Anne Hidalgo to reshape the French capital with environmentally conscious and pedestrian-friendly policies. The new parking fees are expected to be approved in May by the Paris City Council, where Ms. Hidalgo’s Socialist…
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Top U.S. Treasury Officials to Visit Beijing for Economic Talks
[ad_1] The Biden administration is dispatching a high-level delegation of Treasury Department officials to Beijing this week for a round of economic talks as the world’s largest economies look to continue engagement efforts that President Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed to pursue last year. A Treasury official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the trip has…
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Israel Awaits Hamas Response to Cease-Fire Plan: Live Updates
[ad_1] A destroyed building in Rafah, Gaza, on Sunday.Credit…Haitham Imad/EPA, via Shutterstock Israel was waiting on Monday for Hamas officials to respond to a proposal to pause the fighting in the Gaza Strip and release the remaining hostages there, as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken headed back to the region seeking to rally support for such a deal. A…
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Many Israelis Want Netanyahu Out. But There Is No Simple Path to Do It.
[ad_1] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is on his last legs, it is widely believed, and will be forced to relinquish his post once the war against Hamas in Gaza ends. He is historically unpopular in the opinion polls and blamed for the governmental and security failures that led to the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, the killings of…
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