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Published on: 03/02/2025 | 06:36:10

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Pakistan deploys thousands of police officers to protect health workers. More than 200 polio workers and police assigned for their protection have been killed in Pakistan since the 1990s. In December, a roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers. TTP is an ally of the Afghan Taliban who seized power in Afghanistan. Pakistan reported one case in January and had 77 cases last year. Afghanistan had 23 cases in 2024. Afghan Taliban in September suspended house-to-house polio vaccination campaigns.

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Published on: 03/02/2025 | 08:37:29

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A blast in an upscale residential block in Moscow kills one person and wounds four others. Those wounded in the blast were hospitalized in grave condition, RIA Novosti reports. The cause of the blast was not revealed.

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Author: Unknown
Published on: 03/02/2025 | 12:49:21

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Christophe Ruggia was sentenced Monday to two years under house arrest. Haenel was the first top actor in France to accuse the film industry of turning a blind eye to sexual abuse after the MeToo movement broke out.

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Author: Unknown
Published on: 03/02/2025 | 09:44:07

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Belgium has a new prime minister whose political purpose was long to break up the nation. Bart De Wever looked straight at King Philippe, the latest monarch of a royal house he so long had little but disdain for. It symbolizes the old concept of Belgian unity. De Wever will join his fellow European Union leaders at a summit in Brussels later Monday. He will have a government that will clean up the budget, implement a fair social policy, reward work, implement the strictest migration policy ever, abolish the nuclear phase-out, and invest in safety.

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Author: Caleb Kabanda, Ruth Maclean and Guerchom Ndebo
Published on: 01/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Rwanda-backed rebels took control of Goma, a city of two million in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Hospitals are overflowing with the wounded, and the city morgue with the dead. The Congolese military that was supposed to protect them has been vanquished. A commander of the 231st infantry battalion of the Congolese Army climbed down from the cabin of one of the trucks. The captured commander, Lt. Col. John Asegi, explained that they had no choice but to surrender. As the M23 rebels strode around the yard preparing for the trucks’ departure, they looked more like an army. Corneille Nangaa gave Goma’s citizens a taste of their new reality under the powerful militia. He was flanked by men in helmets and battle gear. But the situation in Gomas is far from normal. Dead bodies lie in the streets. Cholera is breaking out. Most vulnerable is Goma’s displaced population, which numbers in the hundreds of thousands. For more than a year, people have fled the rebel advance through eastern Congo’s countryside and small towns. Three families who fled one of the camps hid in an educational center, surviving on some beans and rice they were given. But they have no idea what they will do now. Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief for The Times. She covers 25 countries including Nigeria, Congo, the countries in the Sahel region and Central Africa.

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Author: Matt Surman and Aaron Boxerman
Published on: 01/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Arab Nations Reject Trump’s Suggestion to ‘Clean Out’ Gaza President Trump has said that Gazans should be evacuated from the devastated enclave en masse and taken in by Jordan and Egypt. The statement, signed by Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, did not refer to Mr. Trump's comments explicitly but warned that such a plan risked further expanding the conflict in the Middle East. Both countries have longstanding peace treaties with Israel and support a Palestinian state. The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League also signed onto the statement. It is unclear what he may seek to advance during his current term. Widespread anger over the war has renewed attention on the issue of Palestinian statehood. Millions of Palestinian refugees are already living in camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Egypt has also allowed more than 100,000 Gazans to cross into its territory since the war began in October 2023. Trump ordered his administration to prepare to house tens of thousands of “criminal aliens” at the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay. The Trump administration’s effort to get federal workers to leave their posts could lead to an exodus of experienced employees, some officials warned.

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Author: Lynsey Chutel
Published on: 01/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Horst Köhler, Former German President and I.M.F. Leader, Dies at 81 He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the first German president in four decades to resign. How The Times decides who gets an obituary. There is no formula, scoring system or checklist in determining the news value of a life. It was the first time in four decades that a German president had quit the post. From 1993 to 1998, he led the German Savings Bank Association and then headed the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which helped Germany transition to an open market at the end of the Cold War. In 2004 he became Germany’s president despite not having built a career as a party politician.

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Author: Stephanie Nolen
Published on: 01/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Global Health Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid Advertisement You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. Lifesaving health initiatives and medical research projects have shut down around the world in response to the Trump administration’s 90-day pause on foreign aid and stop-work orders. In Uganda, the National Malaria Control Program has suspended spraying insecticide into village homes and ceased shipments of bed nets for distribution to pregnant women and young children The programs that have frozen or folded over the past six days supported frontline care for infectious disease, providing treatments and preventive measures that help avert millions of deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases. The State Department and U.S.A.I.D. Did not respond to requests for comment. There will now be no one to take custody of millions of dollars’ worth of supplies for vital oxygen systems purchased for health clinics in some of the world’s poorest countries. An organization called the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh laid off more than 1,000 employees this week. If the waiver does not apply to their work, many nonprofit groups will not have enough funds to pay their employees or maintain supplies. Already, organizations that rely on U.S.A.I.D. Funds have not been able access any money. More than 50 million children received preventative drugs before the rainy season last year. The delivery of rapid tests and malaria drugs into Myanmar has been frozen. Some organizations now have no workers left to distribute the supplies even if they were to arrive. In Zambia, U.S.A.I.D. Supports the bulk distribution of public health products. It uses the private trucking industry to move medicines from a central supply depot to seven regional hubs. The stop-work order was issued last Saturday, all of the vehicles transporting health products have been stopped. Similar U.s.-funded systems, now frozen, also moved major share of basic medical supplies. Stephanie Nolen is a global health reporter for The Times. Scientists say it actually bolsters the immune response. Bird Flu’s New Phase: A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. The outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks.

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Author: Paulina Villegas
Published on: 01/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Trump ordered 25 percent tariffs on all Mexican exports to the United States and a similar levy on Canadian goods, except for a 10 percent tariff on Canadian energy. His move sent shock waves through both nations, whose leaders have warned that the tariffs will harm all three countries and disrupt their deeply interwoven economies. On his first day in office, Mr. Trump had vowed to impose punitive tax on Mexican and Canadian exports on Feb. 1. Mexico has significantly increased immigration enforcement in recent years, especially during the Biden administration. It has added hundreds of immigration checkpoints across the country, including along once-deserted sections of the border. Mexico also moved migrants away from the border, using chartered flights and buses to drop large numbers in southern cities like Villahermosa. Mexican security forces seized more than a ton of fentanyl in December. Mexico's security minister announced this past week that more than 10,000 people have been arrested on serious criminal charges. At one point, it stopped issuing documents that allowed migrants and refugees to stay in Mexico. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia, a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was lured onto a plane under false pretenses and sent to the United States, where he is under indictment. Analysts say that it has sent a clear message about Mexico’s commitment to make good on Mr. Trump’s demands. The Trump administration shut down the app-based entry program. Ms. Sheinbaum reiterated Mexico’s “willingness to prevent the fentanyl epidemic” from continuing to take a toll in the United States. She highlighted enforcement actions that resulted in the seizure of tons of synthetic drugs.

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Author: Aaron Boxerman and Adam Rasgon
Published on: 01/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Israel and Hamas Exchange 3 Hostages and More Than 180 Prisoners In highly staged ceremonies, Israel released 183 Palestinians held in jails. Israel released two of the hostages, Yarden Bibas, 35, and Ofer Kalderon, 54, in a highly theatrical ceremony in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. The group then released the third hostage, Keith Siegel, a 65-year-old American Israeli. Israelis view these prisoners as murderous terrorists and have lamented their release. Palestinians often view them as freedom fighters against Israel. In the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023 that set off the war, about 1,200 people were killed. Israel invaded Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, in May. But officials in the Gaza Health Ministry said only 50 out of thousands of ill and injured people would be able to cross on Saturday. The rapid release of the three hostages contrasted with the frenzied scenes of an exchange on Thursday. Israel delayed releasing more than 100 Palestinian prisoners until it said it had received guarantees that the chaos would not be repeated. Israeli military spokesman says the military is “gravely concerned” for the mother and children. All the other children seized in the Oct. 7 attack were released during the 2023 cease-fire. Mr. Siegel was the first dual American-Israeli hostage to be released from captivity. Mohammad El Halabi is a humanitarian worker whose conviction in Israel on charges of funneling aid funds to Hamas prompted an outcry from rights groups. His employer, World Vision — a well-known Christian relief organization — said an independent investigation had found no evidence of wrongdoing. The exchange on Saturday came as Arab nations presented a united front against President Trump’s recent call for Egypt and Jordan to take in Gazans. Gazans’ Painful Trek Home: Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have lived in tents in the south, barred from returning to northern Gaza. Now, Israel is allowing them to walk back. A broad group of Arab nations rejected a suggestion by President Trump to “clean out” Gaza and ask Egypt and Jordan to take in more Palestinians, saying such a plan risked further expanding the conflict in the Middle East.

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Author: Mike Ives
Published on: 02/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Transportation secretary Sean Duffy said the Federal Aviation Administration had used a backup system while it addressed the problem. F.A.A’s Main Warning System for Pilots Is Restored After Outage The transportation secretary said the federal aviation administration had used the backup system.

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Author: Ismaeel Naar and Christina Goldbaum
Published on: 02/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Ahmed al-Shara arrived in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, on Sunday afternoon. He is expected to stay in Saudi Arabia for two days and meet with the kingdom's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. The choice of Saudi Arabia was widely seen as a reflection of Syria’s shifting political alignments under the country’s new leadership. Russia is confronting a serious challenge to its military strategy in the Middle East and Mediterranean. Turkey, which backed the rebels, has emerged as a leading force in Syria. Early on, they urged Syria’s new leaders to demonstrate inclusivity and tolerance for the country’s diverse sects. Ismaeel Naar Christina Goldbaum is the Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau chief for The Times. More about Christina Goldbach Advertisement .

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