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Planes Damaged After Touching in Snowy Conditions at Japan Airport
[ad_1] No injuries were reported after a Korean Air plane came into contact with a Cathay Pacific aircraft at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido, Japan. [ad_2] Source link
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Senate Advances Stopgap Bill to Avert a Partial Shutdown
[ad_1] The Senate on Tuesday took the first step in advancing a stopgap spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the week, buying time to enact a broader bipartisan funding agreement for the remainder of the year. By a 68-to-13 vote, senators voted to take up the legislation, which would temporarily extend funding for some…
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Malaysian Prisoners Plead Guilty to Conspiring in 2002 Bali Bombing
[ad_1] Two Malaysian prisoners at Guantánamo Bay pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring in the October 2002 nightclub bombings in the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, that killed more than 200 people. The guilty pleas were the first step in a slowly unfolding proceeding that began when the men, Mohammed Farik Bin Amin, 48, and Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep, 47,…
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Hamas Rocket Barrage Stirs Debate in Israel Over Direction of War
[ad_1] Hamas fighters in the northern Gaza Strip fired at least 25 rockets toward a nearby Israeli city on Tuesday, renewing right-wing criticism in Israel of the government’s decision to scale back some military operations in the war. Hamas said in a statement that it had targeted the Israeli city of Netivot, about six miles from the Gaza border. Most…
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U.S. Strikes Houthi Targets in Yemen for a Third Time
[ad_1] The Houthis so far have been undeterred. On Tuesday, the Houthis fired an anti-ship ballistic missile into the Red Sea, hitting the Zografia, a Maltese-flagged, Greek-owned bulk carrier, Central Command said. The ship’s crew reported no injuries. The vessel remained seaworthy, and continued its journey, the military said. A Houthi spokesman, Yahya Sarea, said in a statement that the…
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Macron Vows to Break France’s Taboos and Fight the Far Right
[ad_1] Vowing to “break taboos,” deregulate the economy and fight to the last against the extreme right, President Emmanuel Macron presented his vision of a stronger, more just France during a televised news conference that lasted deep into the Parisian night on Tuesday. “We will put an end to useless norms,” Mr. Macron said in an appearance before more than…
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U.S. strikes Houthi targets in Yemen for a third time.
[ad_1] That leaves the administration with difficult choices. President Biden could order another blitz of strikes against Houthi air defenses, weapons depots, and facilities for launching and producing an array of missiles and drone, but analysts say that would risk widening the war even more. Or he could settle for more limited tit-for-tat exchanges, like Tuesday’s strike, but that would…
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Wednesday Briefing: Trump’s Momentum after Iowa
[ad_1] Trump won crushingly in Iowa. His rivals are far behind. Donald Trump swept the Iowa caucuses, the first Republican primary of the 2024 election. He got 51 percent of the vote — a clear sign of his enduring command of the Republican Party. Here are takeaways. His 30-point margin of victory set a record for a contested Iowa Republican…
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Deadly Iranian Strike in Kurdistan Inflames Tensions in the Region
[ad_1] A deadly Iranian ballistic missile strike in northern Iraq on Tuesday drove a wedge — at least temporarily — between Baghdad and Tehran, adding to the already volatile and tense situation in the Middle East. The Iraqi government recalled its ambassador to Tehran and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad to the Foreign Ministry after at least eight ballistic…
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Zvi Zamir, Israeli Spy Chief in a Critical Period, Dies at 98
[ad_1] Zvi Zamir, who as the director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency led a violent campaign to crush Palestinian terrorism after 11 Israelis were killed at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics — and who a year later relayed a warning to his government that Egypt and Syria were about to start the Yom Kippur War but was not taken seriously…
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