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Delegation Led by Mike Gallagher Says U.S. Support for Taiwan Is Firm
[ad_1] Visiting U.S. lawmakers sought to assure Taiwan on Thursday that the United States would stand by it in the face of pressure from China, though a bill that includes support for the island has stalled in Congress, and divisions over aid for Ukraine have fanned wider questions about Washington’s commitment to its partners. “Today we’ve come as Democrats and…
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U.S. Defends Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank at Top U.N. Court
[ad_1] The United States on Wednesday defended Israel’s decades-long occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, arguing at the U.N.’s highest court that Israel faced “very real security needs.” The defense came a day after the United States issued its third veto against a call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza at the United Nations Security Council, a vote…
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A Russian Military Blogger Dies After Criticizing Army Losses
[ad_1] A pro-war Russian military blogger died on Wednesday, his lawyer said, after the blogger wrote the country’s military pressured him to remove a post exposing the scale of its losses in a recent battle in Ukraine. The blogger, Andrei Morozov, claimed in his post that Russia had lost 16,000 men and 300 armored vehicles in its assault on the…
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U.K.’s Trident Nuclear Missile Fails Another Test, Fueling Scrutiny
[ad_1] The British government confirmed on Wednesday that the test launch of an unarmed Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine last month had failed, raising questions about the state of Britain’s nuclear deterrence capability. It was the second straight malfunction of such a launch, coming nearly eight years after another Trident flew off course at sea, an incident that…
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Bowing to Fan Revolt, German Soccer Rejects $1 Billion Investment
[ad_1] Germany’s soccer fans had thrown everything they could at the problem, often in a quite literal sense: At various points over the last few weeks, they protested the specter of a private equity giant’s taking a stake in the country’s domestic league by raining tennis balls, chocolate coins and even marbles onto fields across the country. The demonstrations forced…
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Israeli Rape-Crisis Group Report Finds ‘Systematic’ Sexual Violence On and After Oct. 7
[ad_1] An Israeli organization that supports survivors of sexual abuse released a report on Wednesday that concluded that acts of sexual violence against Israelis during and after the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7 were “systematic and widespread.” “The report finds that the Hamas attack included brutal acts of violent rape, often involving threats with weapons, specifically directed towards injured women,”…
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Thursday Briefing: U.S. Warnings About a Russian Space Weapon
[ad_1] The U.S. warned that Russia could put a nuclear weapon in space U.S. intelligence agencies have told their closest European allies that if Russia is going to launch a nuclear weapon into orbit, it will probably do so this year. But, they warned, it might instead launch a harmless “dummy” warhead to leave the West guessing about its capabilities.…
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Deadly Airstrike Hits Neighborhood in Damascus, Syria
[ad_1] Syrian state media blamed the strike, which it said had killed two people, on Israel. The Israeli military declined to comment. [ad_2] Source link
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Blinken Meets With Brazil’s President Over Israel
[ad_1] Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken confronted President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil on Wednesday about his recent sharp comments on Israel, including the Brazilian leader’s comparison of Israel’s attacks in Gaza to the Holocaust. The sparring showed how the enduring war in Gaza has continued to expand into a broader diplomatic problem for the United States,…
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Syria Blames Israel for Deadly Airstrike on Damascus
[ad_1] Syrian state media reported on Wednesday that an airstrike on a residential building in Damascus had killed two people, and said that Israel was responsible for the attack. The Israeli military declined to comment on the strike, which the Syrian government’s official SANA news agency said hit a building in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood just after 9:30 a.m. The…
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