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Death Toll From Israel's War In Gaza Surpasses 45,000 Palestinians

LOADING ERROR LOADING DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — More than 45,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas militants, Palestinian health officials said Monday, as often-stalled ceasefire negotiations appeared to be gaining ground again. Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images Among the latest killed were 10 people, including a family of four, in …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

The Fall Of Bashar Assad After 14 Years Of War In Syria Brings To An End A Decades-Long Dynasty

Huff Post

FILE - In this photo provided by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Syrian President Bashar Assad listens during the Arab summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023. via Associated Press BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Japanese Princess Yuriko, oldest member of imperial family, dies at 101

CNN

Tokyo — Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials said. Her death reduces Japan’s rapidly dwindling imperial family to 16 people, including four men, as the country faces the dilemma of how to maintain the royal family while conservatives in …

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2 months ago

War's Heavy Toll on Israel's Economy: A Long Road to Recovery

The Hindu

The war in Israel has been expensive, with the country spending a significant amount of money on the military. This has raised concerns about the long-term effect of the fighting on the country's economy. The war has also inflicted an even heavier toll on Gaza's already broken economy, where 90% of the population has been displaced and the vast majority …

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2 months ago

Israel's war against militants is expensive. Paying the bill could force tough choices

The Independent

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

The far right actually hates America: Its dark ideology has foreign roots

Salon

If there is one thing Republicans want you to know, it’s how much they bleed red, white and blue for America. there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin.” Émile Faguet, a French author and critic, called Maistre “a fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat, an intransigent legitimist, apostle of a monstrous trinity composed of pope, king …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

In ‘Fallout,’ a destroyed L.A. comes to life, with some help from ... Namibia?

LA Times

Prime Video’s “Fallout” might have been set in a nuclear war-ravaged Colorado or vaguely defined Southwestern desert, depending on whom you talk to. The final impetus was trying to incorporate the physical production of making the thing into the actual storytelling.” Although the rest of the series was shot in and around New York City and adjacent to Utah’s Bonneville …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Cash Shortage Compounds Devastation in Gaza

Live Mint

When Mustafa Ashqar and his wife were still living in Gaza City and working in apparel sales, the money they earned was enough to get by and provide for their baby girl. “With limited supplies, prices have skyrocketed, and it’s left basic items unaffordable for many, many people," said Raja Khalidi, an economist and director-general of the Ramallah-based Palestine Economic …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

A new Holocaust Museum shows how three-quarters of Dutch Jews were deported and killed

Associated Press

AMSTERDAM — The Dutch resistance spirited newborn Flip Delmonte away after his parents were detained by Nazi occupiers of the Netherlands in World War II. On Tuesday, the 80-year-old Delmonte attended the official preview of the Netherlands’ National Holocaust Museum, pointing proudly at a picture he donated of himself after the war. “This is something that they chose to wear, …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Syria’s government extends permission for UN to bring aid through border crossing with Turkey

Associated Press

BEIRUT — Syria’s government is giving the United Nations permission for another six months to use a major border crossing with Turkey to bring aid into the country’s rebel-held northwest. Syria’s mission to the U.N. said in a statement late Thursday that the Bab al-Hawa crossing should be “effectively operationalized in a way that contributes to helping people in need …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Israel Fights on Three Fronts as It Debates How to End Gaza War

Live Mint

Israel’s military said it had carried out strikes in Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip as the country’s security cabinet prepared for a key meeting later on Tuesday to discuss ways to extricate itself from its three-month-old war in the isolated Palestinian enclave. A spokeswoman for Netanyahu, Tal Heinrich, declined to comment specifically on the ministers’ statements, but said that …

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1 year ago

Israel finds large tunnel adjacent to Gaza border, raising new questions about prewar intelligence

Associated Press

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip — The Israeli military said Sunday it has discovered a large tunnel shaft in Gaza close to what was once a busy crossing into Israel, raising new questions about how Israeli surveillance missed such conspicuous preparations by Hamas for the militants’ deadly Oct. 7 assault. Maj. Nir Dinar, a military spokesperson, said that Israeli security services …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Protesters in southern Syria smash statue as they mark 2015 assassination of anti-government leader

Associated Press

BEIRUT — Hundreds of angry protesters in southern Syria smashed the statue of Syria’s late president on Monday as they they marked the 2015 assassination of a prominent anti-government Druze leader. The demonstrations were initially driven by surging inflation and the war-torn country’s spiraling economy but quickly shifted focus, with marchers calling for the fall of President Bashar Assad’s government. …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Nowhere to run: Residents point at Ukraine’s bomb shelter problem

Al Jazeera

Three people die at the shut door of a bomb shelter during Russia’s missile strike on Kyiv, highlighting Ukraine’s nationwide problem with bunkers. “You can order pizza here, there’s McDonald’s delivery,” safety expert Oleksandr Pilkevich told Al Jazeera in February 2022, just days before the war began. In February 2022, Al Jazeera’s reporter spent several nights in a bomb shelter …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Ukraine’s farmers risk landmines in order to plant

LA Times

A grassy lane rutted with tire tracks leads to Volodymyr Zaiets’ farm in southern Ukraine. They have soaring production and transportation costs caused by Russia’s blockade of many Black Sea ports, and several neighboring European countries imposed import restrictions on Ukrainian grain to prevent a glut. The “drastic reduction” of grain crops potentially threatens global food security, said Pierre Vauthier, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Ukraine farmers surrounded by risks, from mines to logistics

Associated Press

POTIOMKYNE, Ukraine — A grassy lane rutted with tire tracks leads to Volodymyr Zaiets’ farm in southern Ukraine. They have soaring production and transportation costs caused by Russia’s blockade of many Black Sea ports, and several neighboring European countries imposed import restrictions on Ukrainian grain to prevent a glut. The “drastic reduction” of grain crops potentially threatens global food security, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

How to easily find an apartment in L.A. Just kidding!

LA Times

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1 year, 8 months ago

German chancellery defends record on sending arms to Ukraine

Associated Press

BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s spokesman on Wednesday defended Berlin’s record on delivering arms to Ukraine after the vice chancellor, a rare prewar advocate of providing Kyiv with weapons, said this week he was “deeply ashamed” that it took Germany so long to shift its position. A video clip of his Monday meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, posted on …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Head of Russian military company claims gains in Ukraine’s Bakhmut, but no end in sight

LA Times

Ukrainian soldiers fire a self-propelled howitzer at Russian positions near Bakhmut, the site of heavy fighting in the Donetsk region. The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank that closely monitors the fighting in Ukraine, said Russian forces were likely in control in the areas cited by Prigozhin following a Ukrainian withdrawal. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu …

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2 years, 1 month ago

‘We survived': Kherson comes alive after Russian withdrawal

Associated Press

KHERSON, Ukraine — A week since the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson was liberated, residents can’t escape reminders of the terrifying eight months they spent under Russian occupation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy triumphantly walked the streets on Monday, hailing Russia’s withdrawal — a humiliating defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin — as the “beginning of the end of the war.” …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Ukraine works to stabilize Kherson after Russian pullout

LA Times

Ukrainian police officers returned Saturday, along with TV and radio services, to the southern city of Kherson following the withdrawal of Russian troops, part of fast but cautious efforts to make the only regional capital captured by Russia livable after months of occupation. “Water supplies are practically nonexistent.” The chairman of Khersonoblenergo, the region’s prewar power provider, said electricity was …

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2 years, 1 month ago

EXPLAINER: How important is a Russian retreat from Kherson?

Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials said Friday that Ukrainian flags were appearing “en masse and all over the place,” in the wake of Russia’s retreat from the southern region of Kherson, one of the four regions in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed in September. A retreat from Kherson and other areas on the Dnieper’s west bank would shatter …

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2 years, 2 months ago

What would a Russian retreat from Kherson in southern Ukraine mean?

LA Times

Ukrainian forces pressing an offensive in the south have zeroed in on Kherson, a provincial capital that has been under Russian control since the early days of the invasion. A retreat from Kherson and other areas on the Dnieper’s west bank would shatter Russian hopes to press an offensive west to Mykolaiv and Odesa to cut off Ukraine’s access to …

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2 years, 2 months ago

EXPLAINER: What would retreat from Kherson mean for Russia?

Associated Press

Ukrainian forces pressing an offensive in the south have zeroed in on Kherson, a provincial capital that has been under Russian control since the early days of the invasion. A retreat from Kherson and other areas on the Dnieper’s west bank would shatter Russian hopes to press an offensive west to Mykolaiv and Odesa to cut off Ukraine’s access to …

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Death Toll From Israel's War In Gaza Surpasses 45,000 Palestinians

The Fall Of Bashar Assad After 14 Years Of War In Syria Brings To An End A Decades-Long Dynasty

Japanese Princess Yuriko, oldest member of imperial family, dies at 101

War's Heavy Toll on Israel's Economy: A Long Road to Recovery

Israel's war against militants is expensive. Paying the bill could force tough choices

The far right actually hates America: Its dark ideology has foreign roots

In ‘Fallout,’ a destroyed L.A. comes to life, with some help from ... Namibia?

Cash Shortage Compounds Devastation in Gaza

A new Holocaust Museum shows how three-quarters of Dutch Jews were deported and killed

Syria’s government extends permission for UN to bring aid through border crossing with Turkey

Israel Fights on Three Fronts as It Debates How to End Gaza War

Israel finds large tunnel adjacent to Gaza border, raising new questions about prewar intelligence

Protesters in southern Syria smash statue as they mark 2015 assassination of anti-government leader

Nowhere to run: Residents point at Ukraine’s bomb shelter problem

Ukraine’s farmers risk landmines in order to plant

Ukraine farmers surrounded by risks, from mines to logistics

How to easily find an apartment in L.A. Just kidding!

German chancellery defends record on sending arms to Ukraine

Head of Russian military company claims gains in Ukraine’s Bakhmut, but no end in sight

‘We survived': Kherson comes alive after Russian withdrawal

Ukraine works to stabilize Kherson after Russian pullout

EXPLAINER: How important is a Russian retreat from Kherson?

What would a Russian retreat from Kherson in southern Ukraine mean?

EXPLAINER: What would retreat from Kherson mean for Russia?