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Knife Attacker Hoped to End Lee’s Presidential Ambitions, South Korean Police Say
[ad_1] The man who stabbed the main opposition leader of South Korea in the neck last week wanted to kill him so that he would never become president, the police said, in an alarming escalation of the country’s political polarization. A 66-year-old man who was arrested after the attack was handed over to prosecutors on Wednesday to be formally indicted…
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Hamas Says Hostages Won’t Go Home Alive While Israeli Forces Remain in Gaza
[ad_1] Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip “will not be returned alive” unless Israeli forces leave, a Hamas spokesman said on Wednesday, highlighting the predicament facing the Israeli government: It has vowed to free the hostages, and to pursue the war and defeat Hamas. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under significant pressure to do whatever is required to get…
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U.S. and British Forces Fend Off Houthi Attack in Red Sea
[ad_1] The United States and its allies are weighing how to stop attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea after American and British officials said on Wednesday that their navies had intercepted one of the largest barrages yet of drones and missiles fired from an area controlled by the Houthis, an Iranian-backed group in Yemen. The attacks, which the…
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Ecuador Shaken by Days of Terror After Gang Leader’s Disappearance
[ad_1] A sense of dread took hold in Ecuador on Wednesday, with the streets empty, classes canceled, and many people afraid to leave their homes after the disappearance of two gang leaders on Monday set off prison riots, police kidnappings and the on-air storming of a TV station. The violence, which left at least 11 people dead by Wednesday and…
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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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ICJ to Hear Israel Genocide Accusation Case Brought by South Africa
[ad_1] The International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ highest judicial body, will begin hearings this week in a case brought by South Africa that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. The hearings, the first step in a lengthy process should the case go forward, will be the first time that Israel has chosen to defend itself, in person,…
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Al Shabab Terrorist Group Captures U.N. Helicopter in Somalia
[ad_1] A United Nations helicopter carrying nine passengers was captured in Somalia on Wednesday by the terrorist group Al Shabab after making an emergency landing in an area controlled by the group, two Somali officials said. Six of the passengers were captured, while two escaped and one was killed, according to the two officials, who spoke on the condition of…
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Blocked Toilets Close Eton, Boarding School for Britain’s Elite Sons
[ad_1] The first prime minister of Britain, Robert Walpole, went to Eton College. So did Boris Johnson and David Cameron and more than a dozen others. Prince William and Prince Harry went there. So did the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, the novelists Henry Fielding and George Orwell, the actors Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, and the economist John Maynard Keynes.…
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U.N. Expert Will Investigate Sex Crimes by Hamas, Israel Says
[ad_1] The United Nations’ special representative on sexual violence in conflict has accepted Israel’s invitation to investigate allegations of sex crimes committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, a spokesman for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday. The U.N. official, Pramila Patten, is expected to come to Israel within weeks and has been granted investigative authority by the foreign…
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Zelensky Visits Baltic Nations to Rally Support for Ukraine
[ad_1] In Estonia, a four-story banner that combines the flags of Ukraine and Estonia hangs over a main square in the capital, Tallinn. In Latvia, Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins is calling for allies to “ramp up military support to Ukraine without delay.” And the leader of Lithuania, where President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine began a tour of Baltic States on…
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