War
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World
North Korea Launches Rocket With Its First Spy Satellite
The country had failed to put such a satellite into orbit in its two previous attempts at such a launch.…
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Arts
In the Middle of a War With No End in Sight
In “November 1942,” Peter Englund pieces together a month in the Second World War with the diaries and memoirs of…
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World
‘A Horror Film’: Mothers in Gaza on Giving Birth in a War Zone
“My experience during childbirth was a nightmare in every sense of the word, or something like a horror film,” said…
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World
In Ukraine’s Slowed-Down War, Death Comes as Quickly as Ever
The agony came in waves as the wounded Ukrainian soldier in the back of the ambulance slipped in and out…
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News
These Days, the Very Rich Are Very Selfish. It Could Get Ugly.
Throughout much of the Western world’s history, the wealthiest have been viewed in their communities as a potentially unfavorable presence,…
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News
Israel, Hamas and the Rules of War
More from our inbox: A Mideast Protest by Congressional StaffersD.I.Y. College RankingsRich in New YorkFake ReviewsAn Israeli artillery unit shelling…
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World
Russia Sentences Activist to Penal Colony for Antiwar Notes on Price Tags
A court sentenced Aleksandra Y. Skochilenko to seven years in a penal colony, in one of the most prominent cases…
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News
There Should Be More Public Pressure on Hamas
In the summer of 2008, I helped raid a hospital. As I’ve written before, I was deployed as a JAG…
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World
International Court Orders Syria to Stop Torture of Political Opponents
Human rights experts have estimated that some 14,000 people died from torture or were killed in the prisons run by…
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World
How International Law Views Military Action at a Hospital
The Israeli military has seized the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa. Israel says it needed to capture the hospital, in…