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Prince Harry Withdraws Libel Claim Against Mail on Sunday Publisher
[ad_1] Barely a month after winning a landmark phone-hacking lawsuit against a British publisher, Prince Harry on Friday withdrew an unrelated libel suit against the publisher of another tabloid paper, The Mail on Sunday. The Daily Mail, a sister paper of The Mail on Sunday, reported that lawyers for Harry, the duke of Sussex, dropped his claim that he had…
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Israeli Soccer Player in Turkey Removed Over Gaza War Post
[ad_1] A leading Turkish soccer club, Basaksehir, has fined an Israeli player and moved him to a team in Israel over a social media post about hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. It was the second time this week that an Israeli player in Turkey was dismissed over a message related to the Israel-Hamas war. The player, Eden Karzev, a…
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French Police Officer Convicted in Théo Luhaka Abuse Case
[ad_1] A police officer who brutalized a 22-year-old Black man with an expandable baton during an arrest seven years ago was convicted by a French court on Friday of “intentional violence” in one of the country’s highest-profile cases of police abuse. The young man, Théo Luhaka, sustained a four-inch tear to his rectum after the police subdued him during an…
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Annie Nightingale, Pathbreaking British D.J., Is Dead at 83
[ad_1] Annie Nightingale, who became the first female disc jockey on BBC Radio 1 in 1970 and remained a popular personality there until her final show, late last year, died on Jan. 11 at her home in London. She was 83. Her family announced the death in a statement but did not cite a cause. “This is the woman who…
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Britain’s Largest Steel Mill to Become Greener, at a Cost of Jobs
[ad_1] Tata Steel said Friday that it planned to shut down the blast furnaces at Britain’s largest steel mill, in Port Talbot, Wales, and replace them with an electric furnace — a move that would cut carbon emissions but could cost 2,800 jobs. The company, part of the India-based Tata conglomerate, says the steel mill, much of which dates back…
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Fresh From Battles Won With U.A.E. Arms, Sudanese General Takes Victory Lap
[ad_1] Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, the leader of a notorious paramilitary force fighting for supremacy in Sudan’s civil war, is not the president of his country. Yet on a recent whirlwind tour of six African nations, he was treated just like one. Some of the continent’s most powerful leaders rolled out the red carpet for General Hamdan after he arrived…
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London’s Highgate Cemetery Is Nearly Full. Can It Reuse Old Graves?
[ad_1] In death, as in life, it is expensive to have famous people as your neighbors. There is hardly any space left at Highgate Cemetery, a Victorian graveyard in north London where Karl Marx, George Michael and George Eliot are buried, along with 170,000 other Londoners. The price of a grave to rest in esteemed peace? It starts at 25,000…
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Map: 5.6-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Colombia
[ad_1] A moderately strong, 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck in Colombia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 6:26 a.m. Colombia time, data from the agency shows. As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake’s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. Aftershocks…
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Israel-Hamas War: Live Updates – The New York Times
[ad_1] A member of Israel’s war cabinet has exposed deep internal rifts, criticizing the prime minister and urging a longer cease-fire with Hamas to free the remaining hostages while saying bluntly that Israel had yet to fully realize its military objectives in Gaza. “We didn’t topple Hamas,” the cabinet member, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, told Uvda, an Israeli news program,…
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What Might Happen Next in the Genocide Case Against Israel
[ad_1] Depending on the angle from which you view it, the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice can embody either the promises or the failures of one of the primary aims of the international human rights project: making rights a matter of law, not just of power. Last week, the court, which is the United Nations’…
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