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Is it standard practice for americanair to charge the customer to ship a bag it lost?

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Ukrainan journalist Viktoria Roschina has died in Russian custody. She was just 27. Captured and imprisoned in the Russian-occupied zone of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia Oblast, she spent over a year in captivity. According to Ukraine’s military intel service, Viktoria was supposed to

How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law ig.ft.com/west-bank/

What happens when a country founded on one set of values later contradicts them? When people start to feel like strangers in their own land? When God meets democracy? “The Weekend Intelligence” charts the rise of Israel’s religious right econ.st/4gd9UZw 🎧

Let us #PrayTogether for peace in martyred Ukraine, in the Middle East—Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, and now Syria—in Myanmar, Sudan, and wherever people suffer from war and violence.

This is what happens when US diplomacy doesn’t move swiftly, leaving a vacuum. Russia moves in. No senior U.S. leaders have met or called the new leader of Syria and the newly freed Syrians are asking why they are still on the State Dept terror list.

I would like to reiterate Ukraine’s commitment to peace. None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under

Simply stupendous portrait of Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s new leader, by Nicolas Pelham. So many previously unreported details. Read it all, and enjoy the wonderful Oliver Marsden photos of Damascus in a time of tumultuous change economist.com/1843/2025/03/0…

A hugely deserved tribute to NPR's Anas Baba, who's covered every brutal day of the war from inside Gaza. “I asked NPR on day 250 to stop asking me the question, ‘How are you today?’ Because I’m out of all answers, literally I don’t know what to say.” washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

If you want to see how the Trump administration seems to have made up its tariff rates out of thin air, let's look at Jordan, the first Arab country to sign a free-trade agreement with the US (in 2000). It got whacked with a 20% tariff rate anyway, among the region's highest. 🧵

Another great ep this week, featuring the brilliant minds of Eddie Fishman and Dan Wang

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It’s big, but it’s certainly not beautiful. After 27 hours of non-stop voting and debate the American Senate passed Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Our US editor, John Prideaux, explains how the bill could affect America econ.st/4evT6xb

Morning in Kyiv. No sleep. Air quality is extremely bad. City is covered in thick smoke. This is Russian terror, aimed at people who chose to stay, resist and fight.

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.Quinn Simmons should be on the podium at least once, Lidl-Trek. He's the hardest workin' man in showbiz. #USATDF

A few hours ago, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck off the Alaska Peninsula, just south of Sand Point. Local residents and summer visitors alike were able to evacuate thanks to federal tsunami advisories relayed through local public broadcasting stations. That’s the real world.