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Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — but It’s Still Losing the War

Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — but It’s Still Losing the War

The war of attrition between Russia and Ukraine is killing soldiers at a pace unseen in Europe since World War II. Ukrainian artillery fire, explosive drones and mines are killing Russian troops, as they repeatedly charge across the no-man’s land. As Ukrainian positions are exposed, they are suffering heavy casualties inflicted from afar by Russian […]

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Clinton Bailey, American-Israeli Who Preserved Bedouin Culture, Dies at 88

Clinton Bailey, American-Israeli Who Preserved Bedouin Culture, Dies at 88

Clinton Bailey, an American-Israeli academic whose research and documentation of the ancient traditions of the nomadic Bedouin tribes of the Middle East helped preserve a vanishing culture for posterity, died on Jan. 5 at his home in Jerusalem. He was 88. The cause was heart failure, his son Michael said. A native of Buffalo, Dr. […]

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Rebels Backed by Rwanda Close In on Major City in Congo

Rebels Backed by Rwanda Close In on Major City in Congo

Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have surrounded the eastern city of Goma, in one of the sharpest escalations in years of a conflict that has pitted the Central African country against its neighbor Rwanda. On Thursday morning, rebels from the Rwanda-backed M23 group captured Saké, forcing Congolese forces to quickly retreat, according to […]

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Passengers Fled a Train Over Fears of a Fire. Then Another Train Hit Them.

Passengers Fled a Train Over Fears of a Fire. Then Another Train Hit Them.

At least 12 people were killed and 11 people injured in India on Wednesday evening after they stepped off a train and were hit by another one while on the tracks, the local authorities said. The passengers had disembarked after rumors of a fire on their train spread panic among those onboard, the authorities said. […]

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U.K. Teenager Who Killed 3 Girls in Southport Stabbing to Be Sentenced Today

U.K. Teenager Who Killed 3 Girls in Southport Stabbing to Be Sentenced Today

The teenager who killed three young girls and wounded 10 other people in a knife attack on a dance class in Southport, England, last summer will be sentenced on Thursday. Judge Julian Goose, who is presiding over the case, told the attacker, Axel Rudakubana, 18, that a life sentence equivalent would be inevitable after he […]

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Zelensky Could Face Tough Re-election Prospects, Polls Show

Zelensky Could Face Tough Re-election Prospects, Polls Show

Since Russia invaded his country three years ago, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has survived a military assault on his capital, assassination plots, corruption scandals in his government, political infighting and ominous setbacks in his army’s fight against Russia. He had enough support from Ukrainians to carry him through each time. Now, with Donald J. […]

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