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Winter Storm Makes Landings Difficult at Heathrow
[ad_1] new video loaded: Winter Storm Makes Landings Difficult at Heathrow transcript Back transcript Winter Storm Makes Landings Difficult at Heathrow Planes struggled to stick their landings, as Storm Isha brought powerful winds across Britain. Oh, she’s up. She’s down. She’s gone. Oh, big power up there. See? Altitude is your friend. Speed is also your friend in these conditions.…
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Deep Under Gaza, Israel Shows Evidence Hostages Were Held in Tunnels
[ad_1] In a subterranean compound deep below Khan Younis, a Hamas stronghold in the southern Gaza Strip, the five cells with barred doors that the Israeli military says held hostages abducted from Israel had clearly been constructed long in advance. The tunnel builders even paid some attention to décor: The tiled walls of a small kitchenette in the compound, littered…
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U.S. and European Officials Push for Gaza Aid to Pass Through Israeli Port
[ad_1] American, British and European officials are pressuring Israel to let aid for Gaza transit through the Israeli port of Ashdod to help alleviate a metastasizing humanitarian crisis, according to six U.S. and European officials. Israel’s military responded to the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks on Israel by invading and declaring a siege on Gaza, which was already under a yearslong…
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U.N. Chief Says Gaza Death Toll Is ‘Unacceptable’ as It Passes 25,000
[ad_1] Israel’s military operation in Gaza has led to destruction and killing on a scale that is “utterly unacceptable,” the United Nations’ secretary general, António Guterres, said on Sunday as Palestinian authorities said that the death toll in the territory since the start of the campaign had surpassed 25,000. Mr. Guterres called for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza that…
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As U.S. and Militias Engage, White House Worries About a Tipping Point
[ad_1] The number of attacks on American troops in the Middle East increases the risk of deaths, a red line that could lead to a wider war. [ad_2] Source link
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Monday Briefing: U.S. Pushes for New Hostage Talks
[ad_1] A White House official heads to the Middle East for hostage talks President Biden’s Middle East coordinator, Brett McGurk, will travel to Egypt and Qatar to meet with top leaders about a deal for the release of hostages held by Hamas in exchange for a temporary pause in fighting. Here’s the latest. Egypt and Qatar helped broker a cease-fire…
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Storm Isha Sweeps Britain With Powerful Winds, Disrupting Travel
[ad_1] Britain was under strong wind warnings, including a tornado watch, as a winter storm swept over the country on Sunday, bringing potential “danger to life” in some areas, the authorities said. The Meteorological Office, Britain’s national weather service, issued a rarely used warning concerning the storm, Isha. Wind gusts between 59 and 79 miles per hour and possibly 90…
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Deadly Blast Hits Market in Russia-Held Donetsk, Ukraine, Officials Say
[ad_1] At least 25 people were killed on Sunday when artillery shells hit a market in Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine occupied by Russian forces, the pro-Moscow head of the region said, blaming Ukrainian forces for the strike. If confirmed, the episode would be one of the most serious in recent months involving civilians in an area controlled by…
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Deep Under Gaza, Evidence of Cells and Hostages, Israel Says
[ad_1] In a subterranean compound deep below Khan Younis, a Hamas stronghold in the southern Gaza Strip, the five cells with barred doors that the Israeli military says held hostages abducted from Israel had clearly been constructed long in advance. The tunnel builders even paid some attention to décor: The tiled walls of a small kitchenette in the compound, littered…
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Netanyahu Again Rebuffs Biden Over Palestinian State
[ad_1] He loved to play basketball with his friends. He dreamed of studying business administration to help his family’s stores. He enjoyed taking care of his younger siblings and was “very polite, very respectful, very intelligent,” according to his mosque’s president. Then, suddenly, a bullet to his head ended everything. A Palestinian-American teenager was killed by a barrage of gunfire…
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