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Why Myanmar’s war matters, even if the world is not watching
New York Times, Published on 20/04/2024
» SEOUL — An escalating civil war threatens to break apart a country of roughly 55 million people that sits between China and India. That has international consequences, but the conflict has not commanded wide attention.
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Promised aid to Gaza is stalled by wrangling, as conditions worsen
New York Times, Published on 21/10/2023
» CAIRO — Two days after United States President Joe Biden said he had secured Israel’s agreement to allow food, water and medicine into the besieged Gaza Strip, and a day after aid groups were told their trucks would cross the border on Friday, nothing budged, as the powers involved continued to haggle over the details, while conditions within Gaza grew more dire.
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She's a doctor. He was a limo driver. They pitched a $30m arms deal
New York Times, Published on 06/10/2022
» NEW YORK: After falling out with his partner at a limousine company in the St. Louis suburbs, Martin Zlatev recently sought a lucrative new business opportunity: selling $30 million worth of rockets, grenade launchers and ammunition to the Ukrainian military.
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Panic, bribes, ditched cars and a dash on foot: Portraits of flight from Russia
New York Times, Published on 01/10/2022
» DARIALI, Georgia: They are bus drivers, programmers, photographers, bankers. They have driven for hours, bribed their way through many police checkpoints — spending a month’s wages in some cases — and then waited at the border, most of them for days, in a traffic jam that stretched for miles.
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Guantánamo prisoner 'was waterboarded'; agents omitted it from memo
New York Times, Published on 29/07/2022
» GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba: A prisoner accused of plotting al-Qaida’s bombing of the USS Cole warship in 2000 told federal interrogators years later that he was waterboarded by the CIA, an interpreter testified Thursday. But that detail was omitted from the official account of the interrogations that prosecutors want to use at his death-penalty trial as evidence that he confessed.
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Canada, Denmark settle ownership of an Arctic island
New York Times, Published on 14/06/2022
» Hans Island is just a desolate, kidney shaped piece of rock in the Arctic. But for 49 years, it has been the source of a rare territorial dispute for Canada because it sits right in the middle of the international boundary between that country and Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
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VDOs search for " cross-border "
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First Ukraine city falls as Russia strikes more civilian targets
New York Times, Published on 03/03/2022
» ODESSA, Ukraine: Russian forces on Wednesday seized the first major Ukrainian city in their onslaught, the strategic port of Kherson, as they stepped up bombardment of civilian targets across the country, put other cities under siege and pushed to encircle and cut off the capital, Kyiv.
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Biden: Putin chooses 'catastrophic' war over diplomacy
New York Times, Published on 19/02/2022
» WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden said Friday that the US has intelligence showing that President Vladimir Putin of Russia has made a final decision to reject diplomatic overtures and invade Ukraine, in what Biden said would be a “catastrophic and needless war of choice” in Eastern Europe.
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Super-typhoon Mangkhut aims at Philippines
New York Times, Published on 14/09/2018
» HONG KONG: The Philippines braced early Friday for the onslaught of Super-Typhoon Mangkhut, whose 240kph (150 mph) winds were on a path for a direct hit at the country's largest and most populous island.
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Transgender in the Philippines: passion and paradox
New York Times, Published on 30/04/2018
» MARIA RESPONDO, Philippines: Angel Cabaluna dusted makeup onto her thighs, styled her hair in loose curls and applied smoky eye shadow that glittered on her lids.
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