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Russian Missile Strike Kills 3 Seeking Shelter in Kyiv
Municipal workers clearing debris from apartments near the clinic compound.
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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
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
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
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
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
Australia’s Most Decorated Soldier Loses War Crime Defamation Case
Ben Roberts-Smith in Sydney last year.
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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
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
Individual Canadian Cigarettes to Be Labeled With Health Warnings
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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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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.
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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
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
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.
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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
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.
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John
on June 2023
Your Wednesday Briefing
Inspecting the damaged facade of an apartment building after a drone attack in Moscow on Tuesday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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John
on June 2023
The I.A.E.A. takes its case for securing the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to the U.N. Security Council.
A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in March.
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John
on June 2023
Erdogan Pushed to Victory in Turkey by Conservative Women
Turkish women holding a banner with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s picture at a rally in Istanbul before he was re-elected.
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John
on June 2023
The Impact of the Moscow Drone Strike Is Psychological, Russian Military Commentators Say
Police officers near a damaged apartment building in Moscow on Tuesday.
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John
on June 2023
Summer Heat
People crowd the beaches in The Rockaways in July 2021.
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John
on June 2023
Moscow Drone Attack: What We Know
Several buildings in Moscow were damaged early Tuesday. The intended target of the attack was not immediately clear.
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John
on June 2023
A Journey Across London on the Elizabeth Line
Northeast of Heathrow, Southall is a hub of South Asian culture. Visitors can see one of Europe’s largest Sikh temples, sample South Asian cuisine and peruse shops selling jewelry, clothing and other goods.
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John
on June 2023
Germany’s Tenuous Coalition Government Shows Strain
A power plant in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2022.
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John
on June 2023
Alberta Election Sees Conservatives Keep Power After Hard-Right Turn
Danielle Smith, Alberta’s premier and the leader of the United Conservative Party, on Monday night.
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John
on June 2023
Why Did The Financial Times Kill a #MeToo Scoop on the Observer Columnist Nick Cohen?
Lucy Siegle is one of multiple women to accuse the British columnist Nick Cohen of unwanted sexual advances and groping.
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John
on June 2023
At Guantánamo’s Court Like No Other, Progress Is Frustrated by State Secrets
Some information about the Guantánamo prison and about C.I.A. black-site detention is also unmentionable in open court.
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John
on June 2023