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President Biden’s response: “I’m the president, however I’m additionally a dad,” Biden, who has vowed that he is not going to pardon his son, stated in a press release. “I’ll settle for the result of this case and can proceed to respect the judicial course of as Hunter considers an enchantment.”
Israel and Hamas are pressed on U.N. cease-fire plan
Hamas and Israel each made constructive however imprecise statements concerning the cease-fire plan endorsed by the U.N. Security Council. Even with world strain mounting to finish the struggle, neither aspect stated it might formally embrace the proposal, which was outlined final month in a speech by President Biden and was handed by the Security Council in a 14-0 vote on Monday. Here’s how the cease-fire would work.
An Israeli authorities official stated in a press release that the proposed deal “allows Israel to attain” its struggle targets, however stopped in need of saying whether or not Israel would settle for it.
Hamas stated in a press release that it had given Egypt and Qatar a response to the U.N. decision. An official with information of the talks stated Hamas’s proposal known as for amendments to the cease-fire plan, together with agency timetables for a everlasting truce, and a full Israeli withdrawal. An Israeli official described Hamas’s response as a rejection of Biden’s proposal; a White House spokesman for the National Security Council stated that the U.S. was evaluating the counterproposal.
The U.S. secretary of state, Antony Blinken, stated yesterday that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had privately assured him that he supported the decision, and that the onus was on Yahya Sinwar, a Hamas chief, to simply accept the proposal.
Lebanon: Hezbollah stated that Israeli forces killed one in every of its commanders in a strike yesterday, stoking issues about one other battle escalating within the area.
Nigeria’s spiraling financial disaster
Millions in Nigeria are struggling to purchase meals, gas and medication because the nation faces its worst financial disaster in a era. The nation’s decline has been sharp: Two years in the past, Nigeria was Africa’s largest economic system; this yr, it’s set to fall to fourth.
The disaster is believed to be rooted within the elimination of some gas subsidies and the devaluation of the forex — two modifications set down by a president elected 15 months in the past. Punishing inflation means poverty charges are anticipated to rise even larger.
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Tenjen Lama Sherpa, one in every of Nepal’s most storied mountain guides of his era, was killed by an avalanche final yr whereas making an attempt to assist an American climber set a report. An elder brother additionally died final yr, on a Mount Everest rescue expedition.
Their final brother desires to stop mountaineering. But he’ll go once more this season, to make a residing and to attempt to get well Lama’s physique.
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Seeing Russia’s invasion by means of the prism of colonialism
Young Ukrainians try to rebuild their id freed from Russian affect. Often, meaning re-examining Russia’s historical past in Ukraine and highlighting its colonial imprint.
Mariam Naiem, a researcher and podcaster, above, has emerged as a number one voice in these efforts. Calling Russia a colonial empire challenges many years of scholarship, however Naiem and others level to Russia’s lengthy efforts to impose its language on Ukraine, occupy its territory and rewrite its historical past.
Naiem stated it took the struggle for Ukrainians to start to “decolonize” themselves, pointing to those that switched from talking Russian to Ukrainian. “This is precisely a decolonial act,” she stated.
That’s all for at present. Thank you for studying, and see you tomorrow. — Dan
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