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It is the first major art museum in New York to close within recent memory. The museum had financial challenges and has faced accusations of displaying looted art. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/EB7NeAM via IFTTT

The U.S. envoy to the United Nations urged it to “take quick and decisive action” over Israeli allegations that 12 employees of UNRWA, the main aid agency for Palestinians, had taken part in the Oct. 7 attack. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/SC25hRE via IFTTT

Also, a coming E.U. decision on Ukraine funding. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/pQBq926 via IFTTT

In testimony before Congress, Christopher A. Wray, the agency’s director, said Beijing was preparing to sow chaos if disputes with the United States flared into conflict. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/RmS1God via IFTTT

Also, a possible Israel-Hamas deal and a security proposal in Hong Kong. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/rkJYRb5 via IFTTT

A robotics company captured a sonar image that its chief executive believes shows Earhart’s long-lost plane at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Archaeologists say it’s too early to know. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/gM4rJ09 via IFTTT

It is the first time the military has publicly acknowledged using the tactic, which the U.N. has warned could damage Gaza’s drinking water. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/S1CpMQG via IFTTT

The U.S. and some other donor countries said they would suspend funding for the agency after Israel charged that a dozen of its workers had played a role in the Oct. 7 attack or its aftermath. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/RQSCbc2 via IFTTT

Naji Sharifi Zindashti is accused of being the kingpin of a network that targeted defectors and hiring the two Canadians, including a member of the Hells Angels. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/eMY6TaB via IFTTT

Plus, Evergrande’s liquidation and Biden’s election strategy. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/yTiMpaP via IFTTT

A team from the United Nations has arrived in Israel to examine multiple reports of sexual violence during the Hamas-led attack. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/fbLj0hv via IFTTT

A team from the United Nations has arrived in Israel to examine multiple reports of sexual violence during the Hamas-led attack. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/fbLj0hv via IFTTT

Israeli officials have presented evidence they say ties workers at a Palestinian aid agency in Gaza to violence during the Hamas-led attack on Israel. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/IYPH4kT via IFTTT

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Also, the UNRWA is in trouble and an antiwar candidate rises in Russia. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/ign0zEM via IFTTT

The announcements came after Israel accused a dozen employees of the agency that provides aid to Palestinians of participating in the Oct. 7 attacks. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/dQ1BGJR via IFTTT

The very weapons that Israeli forces have used to enforce a blockade of Gaza are now being used against them. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/6r74VDG via IFTTT

Some new mothers say postpartum care centers are the best part of childbirth in South Korea, where fewer people are deciding to have children because of high costs. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/98yndZp via IFTTT

The actions came as specific, “horrific” details were more widely shared by the U.N. and Israel. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/YI1vMXl via IFTTT

Palestinians see UNRWA as an essential lifeline for millions of descendants of refugees. In Israel, however, many see the agency as an obstacle to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/YM4w5tq via IFTTT

Long a vital lifeline for Gazans, the agency known as UNRWA was a point of contention with Israel long before some of its workers were accused of taking part in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/wdfJQr0 via IFTTT

The case, filed in Federal District Court in Northern California, is unlikely to succeed, given legal precedents regarding foreign policy decisions. But it has energized pro-Palestinian activists. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/CNfi3ud via IFTTT

And why alliances will determine what comes next. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/czUqXQS via IFTTT

The decision by the World Court did not order Israel to cease its war against Hamas in Gaza. But the court made a move imbued with historical meaning. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/a4wsGrn via IFTTT

William Burns, the C.I.A., director, planned to meet Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari officials in Europe to try to secure a deal to release the Hamas hostages and a pause in the combat. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/N6d0qPJ via IFTTT

Plus when A.I. generates copyrighted images. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/xR8ANtd via IFTTT

In a recording that aired on Israeli television, a voice that appears to be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s called Qatar’s role as a mediator “problematic” because of its relationship to Hamas. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/tpWlwfj via IFTTT

A video circulating on social media showed water rushing into a room at U.S. Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll as a series of unexpected waves surged across the low-lying island of Roi-Namur. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/r81jZKp via IFTTT

The attacks — the ninth in two weeks — hit anti-ship missiles that the Iran-backed militia could use against merchant and Navy ships in the region. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/lfL8CTh via IFTTT

On the deadliest day for Israelis since the ground invasion against Hamas began, about 20 soldiers were killed as they prepared to level buildings near the border. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/FmKyjT7 via IFTTT

The strikes were “in direct response” to a series of attacks by Iranian-sponsored militias against U.S. and coalition personnel in Iraq and Syria, the defense secretary said. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/LoUQBIf via IFTTT

Plus the Oscar nominations. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/I0Eu9Nn via IFTTT

The vote in the Turkish Parliament puts the Nordic nation closer to joining the military alliance, easing months of friction that have impeded efforts by the West to isolate Russia over its war in Ukraine. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/dEXyVw7 via IFTTT

“The whole district of Khan Younis is essentially besieged,” a spokeswoman for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/nuyRUB7 via IFTTT

The Israeli prime minister said that he had long opposed a Palestinian state because it would constitute “an existential danger to Israel.” from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/TEQMyCe via IFTTT

The two prisoners have admitted to conspiring with an affiliate of Al Qaeda that carried out a deadly bombing in Indonesia two decades ago. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/NQ1pEns via IFTTT

Plus, a “revolutionary” way to feed the world. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/u8VQBi4 via IFTTT

Plus the meaning of North Korea’s threats. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/9SI0pHz via IFTTT

Palestinian authorities said on Sunday that more than 25,000 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip in the Israel’s military response to the Oct. 7 attacks. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/KmTtdEp via IFTTT

The Israeli military took reporters on a tour of an underground compound in the Gazan city of Khan Younis, where it says about 20 hostages were held by Hamas. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/52DXt3G via IFTTT

An intensification of nuclear threats from North Korea while the world is preoccupied with other wars has ignited an urgent debate over Mr. Kim’s motives. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/eO2gLpT via IFTTT

Although he dons different personas, the strongman bona fides of Prabowo Subianto date back to when Indonesia was a dictatorship ruled by his former father-in-law. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/C23RgXv via IFTTT

A senior Iranian intelligence official was killed in an Israeli strike in Damascus, and U.S. troops came under attack in Iraq. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/EFWOqon via IFTTT

Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, 17, who was fatally shot on Friday, was raised in New Orleans and planned to attend business school there. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/yL6Bwgv via IFTTT

The fire broke out late on Friday night at a school for kindergarten and elementary students. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/HbfNG7q via IFTTT

The two leaders spoke for the first time in weeks. Their call came a day after the Israeli leader rebuffed U.S. efforts to pressure him into a two-state solution. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/5YQuDEO via IFTTT

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The SLIM spacecraft made a successful soft landing on the lunar surface, but a problem with its solar panels means it will soon run out of power. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/dXSLDa0 via IFTTT

Also, corruption accusations in Singapore and travel predictions from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/OP1bdZm via IFTTT

Iran’s long history of building up proxy forces that fight its enemies around the region, as well as its conflicts with separatist and terrorist groups, have played into a spate of recent conflicts. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/gLDkEwW via IFTTT

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Astronauts from Italy, Sweden and Turkey will fly to the International Space Station on a commercially chartered mission on Thursday. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/bxGfEU8 via IFTTT

Israel and Hamas are battling near a hospital in Khan Younis, near where the military said it had detected mortar fire. About 7,000 people had sought shelter on the hospital grounds, the U.N. said. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/7Sck6pA via IFTTT

Also, how language affects memory as we age. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/A2vPbEs via IFTTT

“To accuse the Jewish state of genocide is to cross a moral threshold,” France’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/KSoPx9G via IFTTT

“To accuse the Jewish state of genocide is to cross a moral threshold,” France’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/TubLjv8 via IFTTT

Iran says its ballistic missile attack was retaliation against Israel and ISIS for their terror attacks in Iran, but few seemed convinced. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/mQYHjuP via IFTTT

He led the Mossad’s response to the massacre of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Olympics. A year later, he learned that Egypt and Syria were about to attack Israel. from NYT > World > Middle East https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/world/middleeast/zvi-zamir-dead.html via IFTTT

Also, the Iowa caucuses and Indigenous tourism. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/world/asia/houthis-missiles-us-ship-taiwan-asia.html via IFTTT

Abandoning the longtime goal, however unlikely, Kim Jong-un, the North’s leader, instead threatened to subjugate South Korea in war. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/qeryGmT via IFTTT

The Iranian-backed militants launched a fresh round of attacks days after its military sites were hit by U.S. and British forces. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/QnJNj6v via IFTTT

Explosions shook Erbil, a city in northern Iraq, and at least four civilians were killed, local officials said. Syrian targets were also hit, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/iPtl57v via IFTTT

The government said it would designate the international Islamist political group a terrorist organization, citing what it said was Hizb ut-Tahrir’s praise for the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/ExUTWKL via IFTTT

Volunteers with ZAKA, an Israeli group that recovers dead bodies, were among the first to reach the victims of the Hamas-led attacks. The trauma of what they witnessed may last a lifetime. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/jTrUymF via IFTTT

The tiny Pacific island of Nauru severed relations with Taiwan, a move that boosts China’s regional sway and was seemingly timed to Taiwan’s contentious recent election. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/1Djk5ZR via IFTTT

Iran wants to flex its muscles without directly taking on the U.S. or Israel, but that cautious strategy is subject to miscalculation on all sides. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/Ma2Nbzk via IFTTT

Also, Taiwan’s president-elect and India’s court case backlog. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/ubX1Aej via IFTTT

The launch, the first such test by the North this year, came amid signs that the country was developing a new missile that could threaten U.S. military bases in the region. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/Pq3l8oa via IFTTT

Tensions over the island’s status have flared repeatedly for decades, especially as Washington’s relationship with China has grown more strained. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/HBYJt2F via IFTTT

The soldiers were said to have disappeared into the water after a vessel boarding attempt. Pentagon officials said the episode was not related to recent clashes with the Houthi militia in Yemen. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/aSqtMD2 via IFTTT

The strikes damaged the group’s ability to carry out complex missile and drone attacks, U.S. officials said, but identifying targets has proved to be a challenge. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/zMEsrIN via IFTTT

It is the ninth blackout the enclave has endured since the war began in early October. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/zLJnIR1 via IFTTT

After arguing its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, South Africa won praise for standing up for Palestinians under Israeli bombardment in Gaza. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/Jkyv7fm via IFTTT

After arguing its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, South Africa won praise for standing up for Palestinians under Israeli bombardment in Gaza. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/x03fD6O via IFTTT

There were signs the authorities had regained some control, but the extent of damage and casualties from the unrest remained unclear. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/bliFQ89 via IFTTT

Arguing to a packed courtroom at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, South African lawyers cited the words of Israeli officials as evidence in their case. Israel has categorically denied the accusation. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/mipNSkW via IFTTT

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken conducted marathon diplomacy around the region, but Israeli leaders, focused on war with Hamas, showed no interest in meeting demands like Palestinian statehood. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/SuMekWD via IFTTT

More than 120 hostages are believed to still be held in Gaza and many suffer from health conditions that require regular medical care. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/ZdiKroe via IFTTT

At the island’s election rallies, warming up the crowd for candidates is crucial. “You have to light a fire in their hearts,” one host says. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/iWnwJ61 via IFTTT

Angry protests started after hundreds of police officers and other public servants appeared to walk off their jobs over a wage dispute. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/USmy9bY via IFTTT

Netanyahu faces growing pressure to get the more than 100 hostages still held in Gaza home safely. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/LTs3kaE via IFTTT

American officials and their allies warned that there would be consequences for the Houthis, the Iranian-backed armed group that has disrupted shipping in the Red Sea. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/yrmxbY5 via IFTTT

The suspect had planned the attack last week on the country’s opposition leader for months, the police said, and had written an eight-page manifesto. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/bI9g3WP via IFTTT

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A deadly airstrike further heightens tensions along Israel’s border with southern Lebanon. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/VkE7rM5 via IFTTT

In meetings with Israeli leaders, the U.S. secretary of state held out the prospect of Saudi recognition to prod Israel to curb combat operations in Gaza and accept a path to Palestinian statehood. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/I2gH5MT via IFTTT

The latest strikes across Israel’s northern border came as the U.S. secretary of state made another trip to the Middle East in efforts to prevent a wider war. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/MXRfwQ4 via IFTTT

The elite unit of the Lebanese armed group lost a commander in a strike on Monday. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/Vb1tvOa via IFTTT

Also, a recap of the Golden Globes. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/d6Ahv8r via IFTTT

The decision by the Supreme Court paves the way for a former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, to run in parliamentary elections in February. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/p24CBcS via IFTTT

With its proxies attacking from many vantage points and its nuclear program suddenly revived, Iran is posing a new challenge to the West — this time with Russia and China on its side. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/KagjtEQ via IFTTT

Plus why the first galaxies were banana-shaped. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/brUaiQV via IFTTT

At the University of Haifa, more than 40 percent of students are Arab, some with family in Gaza, and many others have now been called up as soldiers. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/tmKYfMD via IFTTT

The president is under pressure from Democrats and Republicans to block the sale to Japan’s Nippon Steel, which could upset a key foreign ally. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/H6IS9dK via IFTTT

With the opposition in jail or at least off the ballots, the prime minister for the past 15 years is expected to maintain her grip on power. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/bR078G5 via IFTTT

The survivor, who was in her 90s, was dug out from under a collapsed house, injured but responsive. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/WnAvd8i via IFTTT

Critics say that hard-won progress toward democracy in Indonesia has been backsliding under Joko Widodo, a two-term president who was once a political outsider. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/wr1N8Dy via IFTTT

The plan exposed divisions in Israel’s war cabinet as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken returned to the Middle East on Friday in an effort to ease escalating tensions. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/Jrkwbpm via IFTTT

Even after the Islamic State took responsibility for deadly bombings, Iran’s government, facing public anger, blamed Israel. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/Nk6hudY via IFTTT

In a televised speech, Hassan Nasrallah addressed Israeli citizens directly, warning that they “will be the first to pay the price” unless the military action stops. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/tOqpSc0 via IFTTT

Russia has rebuilt its own domestic supply of cruise missiles, but to keep up with the intensity of the barrage against Ukraine, it has been turning to North Korea and Iran. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/kRdWD54 via IFTTT

Tariq Habash, who is Palestinian American, said the Biden administration “does not value all human life equally.” from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/Los1J8q via IFTTT

Russia has rebuilt its own domestic supply of cruise missiles, but to keep up with the intensity of the barrage against Ukraine, it has been turning to North Korea and Iran. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/rWsg6i3 via IFTTT

The country’s Supreme Court ruled to postpone the adoption of a new law making it harder to designate a sitting prime minister unfit for office, a direct blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/GbqTKk7 via IFTTT

Plus, China shakes up its military. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/Hbe426n via IFTTT

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Israeli forces stormed the site in November, drawing intense international scrutiny and criticism. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/EsivzRX via IFTTT

With Israel fighting in Gaza, people on both sides of the judiciary debate appear unwilling to return to the domestic upheaval that preceded the war. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/cG8MmR4 via IFTTT

Plus the great winter festivals of Asia. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/Gni3vOP via IFTTT

The Hamas deputy, who the group said had been killed, helped usher in closer ties with the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia and was accused of masterminding attacks in Israel. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/OJKkdYn via IFTTT

The Supreme Court, by the narrowest of margins, rejected a law pushed by Netanyahu allies that limited its authority to review government decisions. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/sTGWBnU via IFTTT

Plus New Year’s offerings to the sea in Brazil. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/jmzrtJB via IFTTT

Analysts say the announcement could signal a shift to the more limited and targeted war against Hamas that the United States has been urging. from NYT > World > Middle East https://ift.tt/OuX3pAt via IFTTT

There were reports of collapsed buildings and people being trapped underneath them. The quake disrupted electricity and phone service, and initially raised fears of a tsunami. from NYT > World > Asia Pacific https://ift.tt/NJI0F2c via IFTTT