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Lev Rubinstein, Russian Poet and a Critic of Putin, Is Dead at 76
[ad_1] MOSCOW — Lev Rubinstein, a Russian poet, essayist and political dissident during both the Soviet and Putin eras, died on Sunday from injuries sustained after he was hit by a car in Moscow. He was 76. His death was confirmed by his daughter Maria in a brief statement on her LiveJournal account. Mr. Rubinstein was struck while crossing a…
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Airstrike in Syria Kills 4 Iranian Military Advisers, Officials Say
[ad_1] Iran accused Israel of launching a strike that destroyed a building in Damascus, Syria, killing members of its powerful Revolutionary Guards forces. [ad_2] Source link
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A Plant That Flowers Underground Is New to Science, but Not to Borneo
[ad_1] As a group of European botanists prepared to travel across Borneo by motorboat and four-wheel-drive vehicles, they heard about a species of palm with an extremely rare quirk. It flowers underground. The palm, Pinanga subterranea, is one of 74 plants that scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London named as new to science last year, thrilling some…
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In Strategic Bind, Israel Weighs Freeing Hostages Against Destroying Hamas
[ad_1] After more than 100 days of war, Israel’s limited progress in dismantling Hamas has raised doubts within the military’s high command about the near-term feasibility of achieving the country’s principal wartime objectives: eradicating Hamas and also liberating the Israeli hostages still in Gaza. Israel has established control over a smaller part of Gaza at this point in the war…
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‘No End in Sight’: Evacuated Israeli City Braces for Possible War With Hezbollah
[ad_1] new video loaded: ‘No End in Sight’: Evacuated Israeli City Braces for Possible War With Hezbollah transcript Back transcript ‘No End in Sight’: Evacuated Israeli City Braces for Possible War With Hezbollah As tensions escalated on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon after Oct. 7, Israel evacuated tens of thousands of residents from the region, including from Kiryat Shmona, a…
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‘No End in Sight’: Evacuated Israeli City Braces for Possible War With Hezbollah
[ad_1] new video loaded: ‘No End in Sight’: Evacuated Israeli City Braces for Possible War With Hezbollah transcript Back transcript ‘No End in Sight’: Evacuated Israeli City Braces for Possible War With Hezbollah As tensions escalated on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon after Oct. 7, Israel evacuated tens of thousands of residents from the region, including from Kiryat Shmona, a…
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Widening Mideast Crisis: Iran Accuses Israel of Killing 4 Military Advisers in Syria
[ad_1] President Biden pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday to agree to the creation of a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza is over and raised options that would limit Palestinian sovereignty to make the prospect more palatable to Israel. Hoping to overcome Mr. Netanyahu’s strenuous resistance, Mr. Biden floated the possibility of a disarmed Palestinian…
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The Debate Over January – The New York Times
[ad_1] I’m trying to catch some of the optimism from Steven Kurutz’s recent paean to January. Winter friends — those who, contrary to all hedonic and circadian sense, love dark days and black ice — have been forwarding the story to me, triumphant, as if once and for all it’s been settled, the pointless, perennial battle of the seasons. Fortified…
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Rare Earth Metals May Be Lurking in Your Junk Drawer
[ad_1] Common metals like iron, copper and aluminum are already widely recycled. But only about 1 percent of rare earths in old products are reused or recycled, researchers estimate. The world instead relies on mining for its supply of rare earths, about 70 percent of which comes from China, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. For the latest study, researchers…
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Families to Testify at Guantánamo Bay About Loved Ones Lost to Terror
[ad_1] Frank Heffernan thought his daughter Megan was in South Korea where she was working as an English teacher when he heard the news of a devastating terrorist attack on the Indonesian island of Bali on Oct. 12, 2002. Then the State Department called. Megan Heffernan, 28, who was born and raised in Alaska and had a passion for travel,…
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