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Iran-Backed Forces Widen Their Attacks on Commercial Shipping
25Dec By adminNo Comments
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Iran-Backed Forces Widen Their Attacks on Commercial Shipping

Updated Dec. 25, 2023 2:29 pm ETEscalating Iran-backed attacks against global commercial shipping in the Red Sea have heightened pressure on the Biden administration as officials scramble to protect trade while trying to avoid a direct confrontation with Tehran.The U.S. Navy said late Saturday that two more vessels had been attacked that day by Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen, bringing the number of commercial ships attacked near a crucial passageway between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East to 15.  The Pentagon said earlier in the day that a chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean was struck by a drone launched directly from Iran, a claim Tehran denied.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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China Turns the Tables on Wall Street
13Dec By adminNo Comments
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China Turns the Tables on Wall Street

Updated Dec. 13, 2023 12:53 am ETChina is upending how the international financial system handles debt crises in the developing world. Wall Street isn’t happy.Large bond fund managers cried foul last month when China blocked their deal to salvage investments in defaulted Zambian debt. The smackdown came just weeks after Chinese officials brokered a private debt restructuring with Sri Lanka, outmaneuvering Western governments that were trying to do the same.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The Militia at the Center of the Darfur Genocide Kills Hundreds in Sudan
11Nov By adminNo Comments
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The Militia at the Center of the Darfur Genocide Kills Hundreds in Sudan

Listen to article(2 minutes)The gunmen arrived on motorcycles and in the backs of Toyota pickups, brandishing Kalashnikovs and dressed in the telltale sand-colored uniforms of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces militia. Over three days they killed hundreds of men and teenage boys in a Darfur refugee camp, according to witnesses, local human-rights groups and international aid agencies.The Sudanese-Arab militia worked its way systematically through the tents, shacks and mud houses of the Ardamata camp, shooting male residents. The settlement in western Darfur was home to about 30,000 non-Arab Sudanese people who had fled earlier bouts of fighting in the country’s civil war, which started nearly seven months ago.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5ed...
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Tamirat Tola Breaks New York City Marathon Course Record
5Nov By adminNo Comments
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Tamirat Tola Breaks New York City Marathon Course Record

NEW YORK—Ethiopian Tamirat Tola broke the men’s course record in winning the New York City Marathon on Sunday, toppling yet another mark in an era of super shoes that is remaking records across the sport.Tola broke away around mile 19 and finished the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours, four minutes and 58 seconds on a partly cloudy, balmy day. He surpassed Geoffrey Mutai’s previous mark of 2:05:06 set in 2011. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Brutal Gangs, Frail Government Await U.N.-Backed Haiti Mission
6Oct By adminNo Comments
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Brutal Gangs, Frail Government Await U.N.-Backed Haiti Mission

The Kenya-led police force, funded by the U.S., aims to win back control of Haiti from gangs that are stoking a humanitarian crisisU.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, left, and Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Defense Aden Duale, center, in Nairobi last month. The U.S. has committed $200 million to the Kenya-led mission. Khalil Senosi/Associated Press
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