Resolution
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World
Blinken Describes New U.S. Push at the U.N. for Gaza Cease-Fire
The United States has submitted a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council calling for “an immediate cease-fire tied to the release of hostages” in Gaza, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia, during his latest ...
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World
Why Is Congress Probing a Union for Being Anti-Israel?
Like many progressive organizations, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, a union that represents public defenders in the New York City area, has been convulsed by battles over Israel’s war in Gaza. A recent article in the right-leaning Free Press ...
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World
U.N. Security Council Vote on Gaza Resolution Is Delayed Again
For the second day in a row, the United Nations Security Council delayed a vote on a resolution calling for Israel and Hamas to provide greater access for more humanitarian aid, and pauses in the fighting to make that possible, as diplomats wrestled ...
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World
Alluding to Scandal, Florida School Board Urges Member to Resign
The resolution against Bridget Ziegler, a co-founder of the activist group Moms for Liberty, is nonbinding. She did not address critics who called her anti-L.G.B.T.Q. policies hypocritical.
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Sports
World Peace in 2024? The Olympics Has a Plan but Not Much Hope.
Amid two prominent wars and other conflicts around the globe, a biennial call at the United Nations for peace during the Games felt even more symbolic than usual.
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World
Humanitarian Aid to Syria Is Imperiled After Vetoes in U.N. Security Council
Dueling resolutions failed on Russian- and U.S.-led vetoes, cutting off a cross-border lifeline from Turkey to more than four million people.
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World
Why Bother to Make Resolutions if We Don’t Keep Them?
If resolution makers wanted a patron saint, they could do worse than Samuel Johnson (1709-84), a lifelong resolver and by his own admission a lifelong failure at keeping his resolutions. Reading his diaries, we may sigh in recognition as time after ...