• One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water

    Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it comes on for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, barely enough to fill a couple of buckets. Then nothing for many days. Gomez, who lives in Mexico City’s Tlalpan district, doesn’t have a big storage tank so can’t get water truck deliveries — there’s simply nowhere to store it. Instead, he and his family eke out what they can buy and store.

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    May 07, 2024

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  • For Gazans, Truce Talks Bring Tangle of Emotions

    Mr. Halabi, a 70-year-old retired U.N. official, paraded through a cluster of tents in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, delivering the news to people displaced by the war, prompting cheers and claps. But the joy didn’t last: The next morning, reports that gaps remained between Israel and Hamas brought him back down to earth.

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    May 07, 2024

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  • Shift in Russian Tactics Intensifies Air War in Ukraine

    Moscow’s recent gains in the east have been aided by more aggressive air support on the front lines. But that also has helped Ukraine shoot down enemy planes in the past two weeks.Moscow’s recent gains in the east have been aided by more aggressive air support on the front lines. But that also has helped Ukraine shoot down enemy planes in the past two weeks.

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    May 07, 2024

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  • French Lawmakers Enshrine Access to Abortion in Constitution

    French legislators on Monday voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in the Constitution, making their country the first in the world to do so. Acutely aware that they were breaking historical ground from the grand assembly room inside Versailles Palace, the politicians delivered impassioned speeches about women’s rights around the world, paid homage to the courageous Frenchwomen who had fought for abortion rights when it was illegal and leaped up time and again to offer standing ovations.

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    May 07, 2024

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  • Biden Offers ‘Ironclad’ Commitment to Allies, Defying Russia (and Trump)

    President Biden pledged an “ironclad” commitment to America’s allies on Tuesday as he sought to reassure NATO members that the United States would not abandon its international obligations despite the threats of aggression by Russia and disruption by his all-but-certain fall election rival, former President Donald J. Trump.

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    May 07, 2024

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  • Haiti’s Leader, Under Growing Pressure, Says He Will Resign

    Haiti’s prime minister, who has come under growing pressure to resign as gangs have overrun the country, said late Monday that he would step down once a transitional council had been established, to pave the way for the election of a new president and help restore stability.

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    May 07, 2024

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