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British Court Answers an Eternal Question: How Much Potato Does a Crisp Contain?
[ad_1] No profit grows, Shakespeare once wrote, where no pleasure is taken. And so in the tedious march of life, we find joy in small things: The rising of the sun. A fine glass of wine. The greasy snap of a well-dressed potato crisp. But soft! Not so fast. Life affords no simple pleasures, and even that delectable crunch comes…
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Pita Limjaroenrat Found Not Guilty of Violating Election Law
[ad_1] Pita Limjaroenrat, the popular politician who was blocked from becoming Thailand’s prime minister, cleared a legal hurdle on Wednesday after the country’s Constitutional Court found that he was not guilty of violating election law, allowing him to be reinstated as a lawmaker. But Mr. Pita’s legal troubles are far from over — he and his political party, the Move…
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Houthis’ Propaganda Is Going Global
[ad_1] Soon after Yemen’s Houthi militia hijacked a commercial ship in the Red Sea, taking it and its 25-member crew hostage, the armed group used the vessel to record a music video. In the slick production, called “Axis of Jihad,” a drone camera pans over the hulking ship. Then a famous Houthi poet appears on the deck — accompanied by…
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Man Arrested on 76 Counts of Murder in Johannesburg Building Fire
[ad_1] The police in South Africa said on Wednesday that they had arrested a man who confessed to starting a fire in a derelict Johannesburg building last August that killed dozens of people, some of whom leaped to their deaths or were trapped behind locked security gates. The 29-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday on 76 counts of murder and…
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Wednesday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] Soldiers killed during construction of buffer zone The Israeli military suffered its deadliest day of the Gaza ground invasion on Monday, announcing that 24 soldiers had been killed, about 20 of them in an explosion inside the territory near the Israeli border. The blast occurred after Gazan militants fired toward a tank guarding an Israeli unit that had been…
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Turkey’s Parliament, After Delay, Backs Sweden’s NATO Bid
[ad_1] Turkey’s Parliament voted on Tuesday to allow Sweden to join NATO, putting the Nordic country one step closer to entering the military alliance and easing a diplomatic stalemate that has clouded Turkey’s relations with the United States and hampered Western efforts to isolate Russia over its war in Ukraine. The measure passed after a vote of 287 to 55,…
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German Rail Workers Strike Over Pay and Hours
[ad_1] Passenger train drivers in Germany walked off the job on Wednesday and vowed not to return for six days in a strike over working conditions and pay that is expected to halt most long-distance and commuter rail travel across the country. The strike, one of the most significant on the national rail service in years, was announced on Monday…
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Court Finds Trudeau Overreached by Using Emergency Law to End Blockade
[ad_1] A Canadian court found that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the country’s Emergencies Act to end a truck convoy protest that had paralyzed the capital, Ottawa, two years ago was an unjustified infringement of civil rights, including the protection against unreasonable search and seizure, and, in some instances, the freedom of expression as well. The Federal Court of…
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Israeli Soldiers Clearing Buffer Zone in Gaza Die in Blast
[ad_1] “There is simply no provision in the Geneva Conventions for what Israel is doing along the border, which is kind of a pre-emptive clearing of property,” said Professor Rajagopal, an expert in law and development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “On a particular property-by-property basis, Israel can take action, but not on a widespread basis across the entire…
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Is Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas Cruise Ship Really Sustainable?
[ad_1] On Tuesday, in a ceremony that, of course, involved a soccer ball, the Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi pressed a button and a bottle of champagne smashed against the bow of Icon of the Seas, christening the world’s largest cruise ship at its home port of Miami. Like an A-list celebrity stepping onto the red carpet, the arrival of…
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