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Remnants of Sprawling Ancient Cities Are Found in the Amazon
[ad_1] The Amazon valley looked like so many others, with a muddy river snaking through dense forest, except that this one had earthen mounds rising at clear right angles and ditches carving long straight lines through the soil. In this rainforest, archaeologists say, lay the bones of sprawling ancient cities: earthworks that were once roads, canals, plazas and platforms for…
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‘There Is No Safety’: Gazans Scramble to Find Shelter as Israeli Attacks Intensify
[ad_1] As Israeli forces surround the southern city of Khan Younis, Palestinians in Gaza are packing up again to flee south, some for the fifth, sixth and seventh time. [ad_2] Source link
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Wednesday Briefing: Updates from Gaza
[ad_1] Israeli soldiers were killed in efforts to create a buffer zone Israel was trying to demolish part of a Palestinian neighborhood as it pursued a plan to create a buffer zone between Gaza and Israel when around 20 Israeli soldiers were killed on Monday in an explosion, according to Israeli officials. Here’s the latest. The explosion occurred after Gazan…
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Turkey’s Parliament Backs Sweden’s NATO Membership 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 for and…
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Barricaded Highways and a Deadly Incident as French Farmers Rise Up
[ad_1] A car plowed into a barrier set up by protesting French farmers early on Tuesday, killing one woman and injuring her husband and daughter, as France faced growing rural fury at perceived overregulation and increased diesel fuel prices. The new government headed by Gabriel Attal, the 34-year-old prime minister, faced its first crisis with barricades spreading across highways throughout…
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Israel Says Its Military Has Encircled Khan Younis in Gaza
[ad_1] Israel’s military said on Tuesday that it had encircled the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, part of a push that has resulted in intense fighting and bombardments in an area packed with civilians who have fled their homes in other parts of the territory. The Israeli military described the area as a “significant stronghold” of Hamas’s Khan…
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Germany’s Top Court Bans Public Financing for Neo-Nazi Party
[ad_1] Germany’s top court on Tuesday stripped a neo-Nazi party of the right to public financing and the tax advantages normally extended to political organizations, a decision that could provide a blueprint for government efforts to head off a resurgence of the far right. Although the party, Die Heimat, which means the Homeland, was already too small to receive public…
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After Years, F.B.I. Recovers Remains of American Woman in Afghanistan
[ad_1] Cydney Mizell, an aid worker teaching English in southern Afghanistan, vanished in 2008, abducted after being driven off the side of a road and presumed dead for 15 years. Members of her family, left with few other details of the circumstances surrounding her disappearance, wondered whether they would ever learn her fate. Jan Mizell, her younger sister, said she…
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Iran Executes 23-Year-Old Man in Further Crackdown on Protests
[ad_1] The Iranian authorities hanged a 23-year-old man early Tuesday, the latest in a string of executions linked to the large-scale protests that shook the country in the fall of 2022. The man, Mohammad Ghobadlou, who worked in a barbershop, was accused of killing a police officer by running over him with his car. His execution, several months after the…
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A Hazard for Visitors to Colombia: ‘Devil’s Breath’
[ad_1] Steven Valdez thought he recognized the woman in the Medellín park. Chatting, the two realized they had matched on the dating platform Tinder. They exchanged numbers and made plans. On their date last spring, he said the woman suggested that he try a typical Colombian dish — a creamy soup called ajiaco. She carried it from a restaurant counter…
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