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World
A Senator Will Preside at Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress After Harris Declines
Vice President Kamala Harris has declined to preside on Wednesday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is scheduled to address a joint meeting of Congress, staying away from a gathering that is likely to highlight the deep divisions among ...
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World
A New Candidate Must Now Defend Biden’s Legacy Abroad
More than any election in decades, this one will be marked by starkly different approaches to an era of simultaneous confrontations, from China to Russia to the Middle East.
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World
Escalation Between Israel and Hezbollah Puts Pressure on Gaza Cease-Fire Talks
When intelligence chiefs of the United States, Israel and Egypt went to Qatar on Wednesday for talks aimed at brokering a cease-fire in Gaza, there was more on the line than Israel’s war against Hamas. The talks are being watched closely by Hezbollah ...
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Hezbollah Launches Retaliatory Rockets After Israel Appears to Strike in Syria
An apparent Israeli drone strike in Syria on Tuesday prompted the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to respond with rocket fire into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the group said, an attack that killed two people as fears continued to mount over ...
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Newyork
Is It 1914 or 1938? NATO Needs to Make Up Its Mind.
“I know it sounds devastating,” Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, said earlier this year. “But we have to get used to the fact that a new era has begun: the prewar era.” Fresh from ousting national populists from power, Mr. Tusk is widely ...
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World
Blinken Says Hezbollah Attacks Have Cost Israel Sovereignty in North
Israel “has effectively lost sovereignty” in its north because Hezbollah attacks launched from southern Lebanon have driven much of the population away, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said this week, underscoring the stakes of cross-border ...
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World
I.C.C. Issues Arrest Warrants for 2 Senior Russian Security Officials
Sergei K. Shoigu, the former defense minister, and Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov, the country’s highest-ranking military officer, were accused of directing attacks against civilians.
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World
Israel’s Supreme Court Rules the Military Must Draft Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, a decision that threatened to split Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government amid the war in Gaza. In a unanimous decision, nine ...
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World
Hezbollah Has Threatened Cyprus. Here’s Why.
Cyprus found itself at the center of the world’s attention this week when the leader of Hezbollah threatened to target the small island nation if it supported Israel in potential war efforts. Amid intensifying violence between the powerful Iran ...
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World
Putin Once Tried to Curb North Korea’s Nuclear Program. That’s Now Over.
Vladimir Putin promised unspecified technological help to North Korea, which could allow it to advance its nuclear weapons program.