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Russia Launches Large-Scale Missile Attack on Ukraine
[ad_1] Russia attacked Ukraine with several waves of missiles on Saturday morning, the Ukrainian military said, putting the entire country under an air raid alert and sending people rushing for shelter as bangs were heard in several cities. The attack, which started around 5 a.m. local time and lasted about three hours, involved cruise and hypersonic missiles directed at cities…
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In Taiwan, Voters Choose President as China Tensions Loom
[ad_1] Millions of Taiwan’s citizens lined up at ballot booths on Saturday to make a decision that could reshape the island democracy’s increasingly tense standoff with its far larger neighbor, China: Who should be Taiwan’s next president in dangerous times? The voters are mainly choosing between the governing Democratic Progressive Party, which wants to keep steering Taiwan away from Beijing’s…
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Jacinda Ardern, Former New Zealand Prime Minister, Is Married
[ad_1] She steered New Zealand through volcanic eruptions, terrorist attacks and a pandemic, won her party a record-breaking majority and, at age 37, became the world’s youngest female head of government. Yet from her earliest appearances on the world stage, fans and watchers of Jacinda Ardern, 43, the former New Zealand prime minister who announced her resignation almost exactly a…
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Threatened by Premier League Fan Zones, Burger Vans Hold Their Ground
[ad_1] Surveying his territory, Tony Aujla is pleased. His business, after all, is all about location, and he has a prime one. Like a general surveying a battlefield, he points to his right: a short walk that way is Aston train station. Over to the left is Villa Park, with its grand, brick-lined facade, home of the city’s Premier League…
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India’s Court System Is Hopelessly Backed Up
[ad_1] When the armed men stormed into the village of lower-caste Indians, fanning out through its dirt lanes and flinging open the doors of its mud homes, Binod Paswan jumped into a grain silo and peered out in horror. Within hours, witnesses say, upper-caste landlords massacred 58 Dalits, people once known as “untouchables,” most of them farmworkers in the eastern…
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C.I.A. Homes In on Hamas Leadership, U.S. Officials Say
[ad_1] The C.I.A. is collecting information on senior Hamas leaders and the location of hostages in Gaza, and is providing that intelligence to Israel as it carries out its war in the enclave, according to U.S. officials. A new task force assembled in the days after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed…
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U.S. Leads Second Strike Against Houthis in Yemen
[ad_1] The United States led another strike against the Houthi militia in Yemen, two U.S. officials said on Friday night, bombing a radar facility as part of an effort to further degrade the Iran-backed group’s ability to attack ships transiting the Red Sea. It was the second straight day that the U.S. military fired on a Houthi target, after an…
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Airstrikes in Yemen Are ‘Extremely Unlikely’ to Deter Houthis, Experts Say
[ad_1] The Houthis have long built their legitimacy on hostility toward the United States and Israel, and support for the Palestinian cause. Part of the group’s slogan is “Death to America, death to Israel, a curse upon the Jews.” Before the strikes on Friday, the group’s leaders had welcomed the prospect of war with the United States. Strikes are therefore…
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Houthis Vow Revenge for U.S. Strikes in Yemen, as Conflict Escalates
[ad_1] Houthi forces in Yemen vowed on Friday to retaliate for an American-led barrage of military strikes, as the Middle East went on alert for more escalation that could expand the conflict and further disrupt critical shipping routes between Europe and Asia. The predawn strikes on Friday, with missiles and warplanes launched by the United States and Britain, came in…
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With Genocide Case Against Israel, South Africa Challenges Western-led Order
[ad_1] After Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, South Africa’s foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, spoke by phone with Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, and later had to explain that the discussions were centered on providing humanitarian aid to Gaza. . South Africa’s case against Israel could generate a backlash globally and at home. U.S. officials have supported Israel, calling the…
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