Mistakes Add Up A senior Israeli commander told The Times in August that 60 to 70 other Gaza protesters had been killed unintentionally, around half the total killed at that point. Yet the Israeli army’s rules of engagement remain unchanged, the military says. That alone may constitute a separate violation of international humanitarian law, experts…
The 2018 casualty list is long. Hedge funds. Trillion-dollar price tags on Apple and Amazon. Trading records everywhere. Not even Christmas was spared the wrath of cascading stocks. It feels unprecedented, Armageddon, or maybe the robot apocalypse. It isn’t. While any 20 percent sell-off hurts, the one happening now is far from unprecedented in terms…
President Trump took to Twitter Saturday to respond to multiple deaths of migrant children held in US custody in the last month. Trump focused on immigration policy as the problem, writing: Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people…
THIRTY YEARS ago, as 1989 approached, political storm-clouds were gathering over China. Bitter divisions had emerged within the leadership over how far and how fast to pursue economic reform. Inspired by the Soviet Union’s liberalising leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, some people in China were daring to suggest that their own country should loosen up, too. The…
KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute. Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says flu activity is rising across the U.S. California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, North Carolina, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Florida, Delaware, and Georgia are all experiencing widespread flu activity, according to the CDC Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report for the week of December 22. The report shows…
Sears chairman Eddie Lampert submitted a $4.4 billion bid on Friday for many of the company's assets, including 425 stores. The bid could save Sears from imminently shutting down and keep up to 50,000 of its 68,000 workers employed, an ESL spokesman said late Friday. The proposal was submitted by Transform Holdco LLC, a subsidiary…
IN 1972 Anwar Sadat expelled Soviet military advisers from Egypt, setting the stage for decades of American dominance, and much violent disappointment, in the Middle East. In 2013 President Barack Obama surrendered America’s hegemony when he refused to take military action against Syria’s use of poison gas, and later sought a nuclear accommodation with Iran. Donald…
The new proposal directs the E.P.A. to do just that. Should that plan ultimately go into effect, the cost to curb mercury would be calculated in a way that shows the costs outweighing the health benefits. Robert E. Murray, the chief executive of Murray Energy.CreditJoshua Roberts/Reuters With the legal justification for the regulation thus weakened,…
Tesla added Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to its board of directors Friday, fulfilling the terms of the settlement reached with U.S. securities regulators over its CEO’s problematic posts about taking the company private. Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle (orcl), and Wilson-Thompson, the global chief human resources officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance (wba), join a…
