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(WASHINGTON) — Congressional leaders unveiled a government-wide $1.7 trillion spending package early Tuesday that includes another large round of aid to Ukraine, a nearly 10% boost in defense spending and roughly $40 billion to assist communities across the country recovering from drought, hurricanes and other natural disasters. The bill, which runs for 4,155 pages, includes […]

Comment on this story Comment KHARKIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday made an unexpected visit to troops defending Bakhmut, currently the site of some of the bloodiest fighting in the war, as his forces try to hold off a desperate Russian assault on the city in the eastern Donetsk region. Zelensky’s trip, […]

Comment on this story Comment JERUSALEM — Palestinian factions called for a general strike in the occupied West Bank and urged Palestinians to confront Israeli troops on Tuesday after a Palestinian prisoner died of lung cancer. Nasser Abu Hamid, 50, a former leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, the armed wing of Palestinian President […]

Comment on this story Comment MADRID — Spain’s top court has handed down a ruling preventing the upper house of Parliament from debating and voting on an amendment to the country’s penal code — an unprecedented interference in the legislature that foreshadows potential political turmoil for the leftist coalition government heading into election year. The […]

Comment on this story Comment BANGKOK — Rescuers found two survivors and recovered four bodies from a Thai warship that sank over the weekend in the Gulf of Thailand, navy officials said Tuesday, as hopes faded for more than two dozen people still missing. Officials acknowledged there were not enough life jackets for all those […]

SEOUL, South Korea — The United States flew nuclear-capable bombers and advanced stealth jets in a show of force against North Korea on Tuesday, as the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un derided doubts about her country’s military and threatened a full-range intercontinental ballistic missile test. The deployment of the U.S. B-52 […]

Comment on this story Comment China’s improbably low coronavirus death toll has become an object of ridicule and anger for many within the country, who say it does not capture the true scale of grief and loss caused by surging infections. Health authorities reported only five covid-related deaths on Tuesday and two the day before, […]

Comment on this story Comment BERLIN — A far-right extremist who killed two people in the German city of Halle three years ago after attempting to attack a synagogue has been moved to a new prison hundreds of kilometers (miles) away after an apparent jailbreak attempt last week. Stephan Balliet, 30, was taken to the […]

Comment on this story Comment LONDON — Musician Terry Hall, who helped create of the defining sounds of post-punk Britain as lead singer of The Specials, has died. He was 63. The band announced late Monday that Hall had died after a brief illness. It called him “our beautiful friend, brother and one of the […]

Comment on this story Comment PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan’s special forces on Tuesday stormed a counter-terrorism center in a remote northwestern district to free several security officials who were taken hostage earlier this week by a group of detained Pakistani Taliban militants, security officials said. The operation came after the detainees, who were held for […]