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In Finland, Blinken Calls Russia’s War ‘Strategic Failure’
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John
on June 2023
As War Persists in Ukraine, Doctors Warn of Rise in Premature Births
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John
on June 2023
Even in Prison, She’s ‘an Indomitable Voice’ for Freedom in Iran
Narges Mohammadi at her home in Tehran last year during a medical furlough from prison.
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John
on June 2023
After Mass Shootings in Serbia, Few Want to Give Up Their Guns
A vigil in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, after a deadly school shooting in May. Patchy enforcement of gun laws has left a large number of weapons illegally in private hands.
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John
on June 2023
Senegal Blocks Some Social Media After Ousmane Sonko Is Sentenced
Protesters in Dakar, Senegal, on Thursday. Some social media were cut off in the country on Friday because it was circulating violence and hatred, the government said.
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John
on June 2023
Spy Deaths on Boat in Italy Ignite Conspiracy Theories
Recovery operations on Lake Maggiore, Italy, on Monday for the sunken boat, which officials said had been hired to celebrate a birthday.
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John
on June 2023
Russian Missiles Kill 3 in Kyiv, Including Mother and 9-Year-Old Girl
Emergency workers and the mother of a woman killed in an overnight missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, stand near the body on Thursday.
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John
on June 2023
U.K. Government Refuses to Give Boris Johnson’s Texts to Covid Inquiry
Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister, leaving home in London in March.
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John
on June 2023
Conflict With the Far Right Shrouds Jerusalem’s Pride Parade
Participants dancing at the Pride parade in Jerusalem on Thursday.
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John
on June 2023
Ukraine’s Future Ties to NATO Are Main Topic as Western Nations Meet
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken speaking in Oslo on Thursday.
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John
on June 2023
What It Takes to Protect Kyiv From Russian Bombardment
Ukrainian servicemen demonstrated working on a mobile air defense system responsible for protecting a patch of sky just outside Kyiv.
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John
on June 2023
Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s Most Decorated Soldier, Loses Defamation Case
Ben Roberts-Smith in Sydney last year.
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John
on June 2023
China Wants to Set the Terms of Any ‘Thaw’ With the U.S.
Beijing rejected an invitation for China’s defense minister, Li Shangfu, to meet with Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III at a security meeting this weekend in Singapore.
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John
on June 2023
China Investing in Open-Source Intelligence Collection on the U.S.
American service members flying a Navy reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea in 2018.
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John
on June 2023
The Three Other Trump Investigations
Former President Donald Trump raises his fists to supporters after a rally campaigning for GOP presidential nomination in Manchester, NH on April 27, 2023.
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John
on June 2023
Sparrows Are the Main Suspects in a Bird-Nest Murder
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John
on June 2023
Alli Smith, of the Cornell Ornithology Laboratory, offers beginner tips for exploring the wide world of birds.
Indigo Goodson took up birding during the pandemic and now goes everywhere with “binoculars in tow,” she said. “My friends get annoyed.”
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John
on June 2023
Big, Incredible Journeys in an Incredibly Big Country
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John
on June 2023
Your Friday Briefing
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that his country was “ready to join NATO.”
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John
on June 2023
Eusebius McKaiser, Acerbic South African Political Analyst, Dies at 44
Eusebius McKaiser traced many of South Africa’s social problems to the apartheid era, and wrote about them for South Africans and a broader Western audience.
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John
on June 2023
With a New, Improved ‘Einstein,’ Puzzlers Settle a Math Problem
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John
on June 2023
Arizona Limits Construction Around Phoenix as Its Water Supply Dwindles
Queen Creek, Ariz., a suburb of Phoenix, is projected to grow to 175,000 people from its current 75,000 — if it can find enough water.
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John
on June 2023
Biden Makes Case for Global Alliances at Air Force Academy Commencement
“You are the very embodiment of American military excellence,” President Biden told Air Force Academy graduates on Thursday. “You are ready for anything — anything.”
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John
on June 2023
U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Warring Sudanese Factions
Smoke rising in Khartoum in May, during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army.
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John
on June 2023
Protests Erupt in Senegal After Opposition Leader Is Sentenced to Prison
Protests broke out across Senegal after an opposition leader was convicted and sentenced in a trial that some Senegalese considered politically motivated.
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John
on June 2023
The House Passed the Debt Limit Bill. Who Won?
Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden.
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John
on June 2023
Zelensky Pushes for EU and NATO Membership at Meeting in Moldova
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Maia Sandu of Moldova arriving at the European Political Community summit in Bulboaca, Moldova, on Thursday.
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John
on June 2023
Iceland Is a Magnet for Tourists. Its First Lady Has Some Advice for Them.
Posted by
John
on June 2023
Your Thursday Briefing
Some of the apartment buildings damaged after a drone attack in Moscow.
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John
on June 2023
Russia Strikes Kyiv, Killing 3 in Another Early Morning Attack
Emergency personnel at a clinic compound in Kyiv, Ukraine, after a Russian attack on Thursday.
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John
on June 2023
Individual Canadian Cigarettes to Be Labeled With Health Warnings
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John
on June 2023
Russia Denounces West Over Drone Strike on Moscow
Police officers stood outside several apartment buildings damaged after a drone attack in Moscow on Tuesday.
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John
on June 2023
Rishi Sunak Is Still Haunted by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain leaving 10 Downing Street this month.
Posted by
John
on June 2023
U.S. Adds Aid to Ukraine to Deliver Ammunition for Drones and Artillery
Ukrainian soldiers with a Stinger anti-aircraft missile near a frontline position in Donetsk last year.
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John
on June 2023
As Iran Seizes Tankers, UAE Pulls Back From US-Led Maritime Force
Aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in the northern Arabian Sea, in 2019.
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John
on June 2023
Readers in Asia: What Does L.G.B.T.Q. Life Look Like Where You Live?
Pride in Chennai, India, last June.
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John
on June 2023
Fear Sets In Among Turkey’s L.G.B.T. Community After Erdogan’s Attacks
Drag artists applying makeup before a performance in a club in Istanbul in May.
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John
on June 2023
Climate Change and Russia Spell Trouble for NATO Up North
The missile cruiser Peter the Great, part of the Russian Navy’s northern fleet, at its Arctic base in Severomorsk in 2021. Russia, China and the West are all seeking to expand their military presence in the Arctic.
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John
on June 2023
How to Lower Deaths Among Women? Give Away Cash.
A mother and her 1-year-old son in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The new analysis collected information on cash transfer programs and death rates in 37 countries.
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John
on June 2023
Germany Closes Four of Its Five Russian Consulates After Moscow Dispute
The Russian Embassy in Berlin will remain open, while four of its five consulates in Germany will be forced to close.
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John
on June 2023
Sudan’s Army Withdraws From Cease-Fire Talks
Yemenis who fled Sudan disembarked from the Saudi ship Abha at Jeddah port in May.
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John
on June 2023
Female Wrestlers in India Threaten to Toss Olympic Medals in Protest
Vinesh Phogat, center, and other wrestlers clashed with the police as they tried to march to the new Parliament building on Sunday in New Delhi.
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John
on June 2023
Honeybee Swarms Darken U.K. Skies, Sending Beekeepers Scrambling
A swarm of bees collected at St. Francis church in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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John
on June 2023
A Big Day for the Debt Ceiling
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Speaks following his meeting with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office early last week.
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John
on June 2023
German Court Convicts 4 Leftists in Attacks Targeting Neo-Nazis
Lina E., second from right, and three co-defendants covered their faces during a court hearing in Dresden, Germany, on Wednesday.
Posted by
John
on June 2023
Israel Called Them ‘Precision’ Strikes. But Civilian Homes Were Hit, Too.
A hole left by a bomb that entered the home of the Khoswan family, in a strike on an Islamic Jihad member who lived below, in Gaza City.
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John
on June 2023
Triggered by North Korea, South Korea’s False Evacuation Alert Causes Chaos
Watching a news broadcast with file footage of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul on Wednesday.
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John
on June 2023
India Will Scrap 2,000 Rupee Notes, Echoing 2016 Demonetization
Customers exchanging 2,000-rupee notes at a bank in New Delhi last week.
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John
on June 2023
State Farm Stops Offering Insurance in California
A firefighter tried to save a home in Meyers, Calif., in 2021.
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John
on June 2023
Ireland Worries That Brexit Will Ruin Fishing Industry
A crew member aboard the fishing vessel Aquila in April on its final voyage.
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John
on June 2023
Pakistan Courts Challenge Military With High-Profile Rulings
Paramilitary soldiers in front of the Supreme Court during a ruling on former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Islamabad, Pakistan, earlier this month.
Posted by
John
on June 2023
Your Wednesday Briefing
Inspecting the damaged facade of an apartment building after a drone attack in Moscow on Tuesday.
Posted by
John
on June 2023
Drones Strike Moscow Civilian Areas, a First in Russia-Ukraine War
Inspecting the damaged facade of an apartment building after a drone attack in Moscow on Tuesday.
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John
on June 2023
North Korea Says Rocket Launch Failed After It Triggers Alerts in South Korea
Residents in Seoul watched as news of North Korea’s plan to launch a spy satellite was shown on television.
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John
on June 2023
Debt Deal Includes a Green Light for a Contentious Pipeline
Pipes on Brush Mountain in Virginia that have sat for years at a stalled section of the Mountain Valley Pipeline project.
Posted by
John
on June 2023
Fluorescein Turned Venice Grand Canal Green, Officials Say
The authorities said that fluorescein, a chemical used in underwater construction, turned part of the Grand Canal in Venice a phosphorescent shade of green in recent days.
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John
on June 2023
Wildfire Near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Leads to Evacuation of More Than 16,000
Thick plumes of smoke rising from an out-of-control fire on Sunday that forced the evacuation of residents in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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John
on June 2023
NATO Troops and Ethnic Serbs Clash in Kosovo: What to Know
NATO officers and ethnic Serbs clashed in Zvecan, Kosovo, on Monday.
Posted by
John
on June 2023
A Plan to Avert a Vast Oil Spill Off Yemen Moves Ahead
The FSO Safer, a supertanker off the coast of Yemen, in an undated image from a video. If all goes as planned, an inspection of the ship will pave the way for an operation to transfer its oil to a seaworthy tanker.
Posted by
John
on June 2023