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Papua New Guinea Declares State of Emergency After Riots, Looting
[ad_1] The prime minister of Papua New Guinea on Thursday declared a two-week state of emergency in the capital, Port Moresby, and suspended the Pacific island nation’s chief of police after violent protests left the city shellshocked. The unrest began on Wednesday after police, defense officers and other public servants appeared to walk off their jobs to protest what they…
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Israel Adesanya of M.M.A. Fame Avoids Drunk-Driving Conviction
[ad_1] Just weeks after being charged with driving under the influence in Auckland, New Zealand, last year, Israel Adesanya, a former two-time middleweight mixed martial arts champion, sought to project humility and remorse. He immediately pleaded guilty, issued a public apology and declined to seek “name suppression,” where the news media is barred from publishing a defendant’s name, a common…
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Taiwan Democracy Is Loud and Proud
[ad_1] Huang Chen-yu strode onto an outdoor stage in a southern Taiwanese county, whooping and hollering as she roused the crowd of 20,000 into a joyous frenzy — to welcome a succession of politicians in matching jackets. Taiwan is in the final days of its presidential election contest, and the big campaign rallies, with M.C.s like Ms. Huang, are boisterous,…
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Two Capitol Riots. Two Very Different Results.
[ad_1] Monday marks one year since thousands of right-wing protesters draped in the colors of the Brazilian flag stormed into Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court and presidential offices with a violent fury and the goal of overturning an election. Saturday marked three years since thousands of Americans did just about the same thing. They were two shocking attacks on the Western…
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Taiwan Raised an Alarm About a Chinese Satellite. Chaos Ensued.
[ad_1] Taiwan’s defense ministry issued an urgent alert Tuesday about a Chinese satellite launched on a rocket flying over the island, an alarming message that interrupted the final days of campaigning before a major election and spurred accusations of a political ploy. The alert was sent to mobile phones across the island of 23 million people, where presidential and legislative…
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How a Show Forced Britain’s Devastating Post Office Scandal Into the Light
[ad_1] More than 700 people convicted of a crime they didn’t commit. At least four suicides. A woman sent to jail while pregnant. Bankruptcies. Marriages broken, lives ruined. The shocking details of one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history have been reported for years yet somehow stayed below the radar for most of the public, despite intense…
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Thursday Briefing
[ad_1] Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. [ad_2] Source link
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Thursday Briefing: The Fight Against Houthi Rebels
[ad_1] The U.S. weighs retaliation after Houthi attacks The U.S. and its allies are trying to figure out how to stop attacks by Houthi rebels based in Yemen against commercial ships in the Red Sea. This comes after American and British forces said yesterday that they intercepted one of the largest barrages of missiles and drones yet. Here’s the latest.…
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Former Minister Arrested After Standoff at Poland’s Presidential Palace
[ad_1] Poland’s bumpy transition to a new government hit dramatic turbulence on Wednesday when a prominent hard-line minister in the former right-wing administration declared himself a “political prisoner” and announced he was going on a hunger strike to protest his arrest following conviction for abuse of power. Seeking to avoid a two-year jail sentence handed down by a Warsaw court…
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How the War With Hamas Has Damaged Israel’s Tech Firms and Economy
[ad_1] At 6:45 a.m. on Oct. 7, Jack Bigio, the founder of the technology company UBQ Materials, talked to his chief operating officer, who said terrorists were on his kibbutz. Other employees texted that they were hiding in safe rooms, and one said her husband had been shot in the stomach. “It was like doomsday,” Mr. Bigio said. The attack…
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