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Zvonimir Boban Resigns From UEFA Leadership
[ad_1] Zvonimir Boban, a top aide and longtime confidant to the powerful president of European soccer’s governing body, resigned abruptly on Wednesday, a departure that laid bare a deep rift inside the leadership of one of the world’s richest sports organizations. Mr. Boban’s sudden exit from the governing body, UEFA, which oversees soccer in 55 nations and organizes billion-dollar competitions…
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Thursday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] Dozens killed in military plane crash A large Russian military transport plane crashed yesterday near the border with Ukraine, killing the 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, six crew members and three other people on board, the Russian Defense Ministry said, accusing Ukraine of shooting down the plane with missiles. The ministry said that the prisoners of war were being…
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Israel Rebuts Genocide Charge by Declassifying Cabinet Decisions
[ad_1] Israel has declassified more than 30 secret orders made by government and military leaders, which it says rebut the charge that it committed genocide in Gaza, and instead show Israeli efforts to diminish deaths among Palestinian civilians. The release of the documents, copies of which were reviewed by The New York Times, follows a petition to the International Court…
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Good News for Rich Uncles and Orphaned Heiresses.
[ad_1] You may remember that I’ve been blitzing my way through murder mysteries this winter. As it turns out, one Agatha Christie mystery is fun, two are interesting, but once you get past three or four, they start to raise real questions about the economic incentives of the early 20th century. If Jane Austen made a pretty good case that…
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Biden Urges Congress to Quickly Approve F-16 Sale to Turkey
[ad_1] President Biden sent a letter to four senior members of Congress on Wednesday urging them to quickly approve a $20 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, following the vote one day earlier by Turkey’s Parliament to allow Sweden to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, according to three U.S. officials. The White House sent the letter to…
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Thursday Briefing: Military Plane Crashes in Russia
[ad_1] A military plane crashed, killing everybody onboard, Russia said A large Russian military transport plane crashed yesterday in the Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine, killing everyone onboard, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The ministry said that the plane had been carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be exchanged for Russian service personnel. It accused…
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U.N. Shelter in Besieged Gaza City Is Struck, and at Least 9 Die
[ad_1] Israeli forces pushed deeper into southern Gaza’s largest city on Wednesday, surrounding two major hospitals where thousands of people were seeking safety as a strike on a United Nations shelter killed at least nine people, according to U.N. officials and local health officials. The Israeli military said it had “currently ruled out” that its aerial or artillery fire had…
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Powerful Waves Slam U.S. Army Base in the Marshall Islands
[ad_1] A surge of unexpected waves swamped the island of Roi-Namur in the Marshall Islands on Saturday, forcing evacuations from a U.S. military base and causing damage that could take months to repair. A video from inside a building at U.S. Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll that circulated widely on social media showed a surge of water crashing through a set…
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Mali Gold Mine Collapse Kills Dozens, Ministry Says
[ad_1] Scores of people have died in the West African nation of Mali after an informal gold mine collapsed last week, the country’s Ministry of Mines said on Wednesday, highlighting the risks that countless artisanal miners face in one of Africa’s largest gold-producing countries. It was not immediately clear what caused the collapse last Friday or how many people had…
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Nationwide Union Strike Tests Milei’s Policies for Argentina
[ad_1] It has been six weeks since President Javier Milei took office in Argentina, and since then, gas prices have doubled, inflation has soared and the value of the national currency has plummeted. Such turmoil, he had warned, should be expected. Fixing decades of economic problems would first require more pain, he said. Yet on Wednesday, many Argentines took to…
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