October 2023

[ad_1] Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jack Lew to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel at a critical moment in U.S.-Israeli relations, despite vocal opposition to President Biden’s nominee by Republican senators over his defense of the Obama-era Iran nuclear agreement. Lew’s nomination was …

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[ad_1] Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save JERUSALEM — The latest hostage video released by Hamas is disturbing, manipulative and revealing. Three women sit on cheap plastic chairs pushed against a tiled wall, somewhere in Gaza. It looks like a waiting room for some fearful appointment. Are they underground, in the …

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[ad_1] Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save NAIROBI — In his first public remarks as monarch on colonial atrocities, during his first visit as king to a Commonwealth country, King Charles III said there were “no excuses” for the “abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans” during their struggle …

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[ad_1] October 31, 2023 at 11:43 a.m. EDT Sets of remains are brought to the Abu Kabir morgue in Tel Aviv on Sunday. Forensic pathologists still have about 200 unidentified bodies to analyze. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post) Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save TEL AVIV — The bodies keep …

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[ad_1] Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save LONDON — When British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak first announced plans in June to host a global artificial intelligence summit, policymakers were in a state of panic. Hundreds of scientists and tech executives had signed a one-sentence letter urging regulators to recognize “the risk …

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[ad_1] SKELLEFTEA, Sweden — It is right to say that the construction of one of the tallest timber buildings in the world — the Sara Cultural Center here — began when a pine seedling was planted in a nearby commercial forest almost a century ago. Green Spaces Blueprints for a more resilient planet People had …

Would you live in a wood high-rise? An experiment in green architecture. Read More »

[ad_1] Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save TOKYO — A suspected gunman is holed up in a post office with an unconfirmed number of hostages on Tuesday in the greater Tokyo area, after an apparent shooting at a nearby hospital where two people were injured, according to media reports citing police …

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