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State Dept. Tells Congress It Has Approved Sale of F-16 Jets to Turkey
[ad_1] The State Department notified Congress on Friday that it had approved a $23 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets and related equipment to Turkey after the country’s leader signed documents to allow Sweden’s long-delayed entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, department officials and the Pentagon said. Although Congress could move to formally block the sale, four senior lawmakers…
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Bali Bombing Conspirators Get 5 More Years at Guantánamo Bay
[ad_1] A military jury at Guantánamo Bay sentenced two prisoners to 23 years in confinement on Friday for conspiring in the 2002 terrorist bombing that killed 202 people in Bali, Indonesia. But the men could be freed by 2029 under a secret deal and with sentencing credit. Mohammed Farik Bin Amin and Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep, both Malaysians, have been…
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U.N. Court Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide, but Does Not Demand Stop to War
[ad_1] The United Nations’ highest court said on Friday that Israel must take action to prevent acts of genocide by its forces in the Gaza Strip, adding to the international pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reduce death and destruction in the battered Palestinian enclave. But the court did not rule on whether Israel was committing genocide, and it…
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Venezuela Court Bars Opposition Leader From Running for President
[ad_1] Venezuela’s highest court ruled on Friday that a top opposition leader cannot run for president, dealing a crippling blow to prospects for credible elections that the government had agreed to hold this year in exchange for the lifting of crippling U.S. economic sanctions. The court’s decision bars the opposition figure, María Corina Machado, from taking part in an election…
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U.N. Court Stops Short of Calling for Cease-Fire in Gaza
[ad_1] new video loaded: U.N. Court Stops Short of Calling for Cease-Fire in Gaza transcript Back transcript U.N. Court Stops Short of Calling for Cease-Fire in Gaza The International Court of Justice ordered Israel to take actions to prevent genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. “The State of Israel shall take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the…
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U.K. Newspaper Deal Seen as a Fight for the Heart of the Tories
[ad_1] The Daily Telegraph has long been viewed as the house paper of Britain’s Conservative Party. So, it’s perhaps not surprising that a takeover battle for the 168-year-old paper has mutated into a political struggle within the Tory ranks — one that some commentators have gone so far as to cast as a contest for the party’s future. On one…
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Dark Galaxies: What Happens When Stars Are Nearly Invisible
[ad_1] What do you call a galaxy without stars? Earlier this month, radio astronomers announced that they had discovered the darkest galaxy ever not quite seen, a cloud of hydrogen gas resembling our own Milky Way galaxy in many respects, such as its mass and rotation, but with no stars that anyone can discern. “What we might have here —…
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Israeli Leaders Slam ICJ Ruling, But Applaud Lack of Cease-Fire Order
[ad_1] Officials in Israel on Friday denounced the International Court of Justice’s order seeking to prevent genocidal acts in its offensive against Hamas in Gaza but also expressed relief the court did not order it to halt its military campaign. Israeli officials had feared the judges would order an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, as South Africa had requested in its…
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UNRWA Is Investigating Charges of Workers’ Involvement in Oct. 7 Attacks
[ad_1] The United Nations agency that aids Palestinians, known as UNRWA, said on Friday it had dismissed several workers accused of being involved in the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 and had launched an investigation into the allegations. Israel has previously accused UNRWA, which acts as an effective shadow government in the Gaza Strip, operating a wide array of…
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Jürgen Klopp Dragged Liverpool Into the Future. Now He’ll Let It Go.
[ad_1] For Jürgen Klopp, the montages will be long and they will be emotional. There will, naturally, be artful drone shots of Liverpool’s skyline. There will be slow-motion footage of red-and-white scarves, twirling and writhing. There will, absolutely, be a stirring, possibly classical score. But most of all, in the wake of Klopp’s announcement on Friday that he will step…
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