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Soon after Islamist rebels overthrew the authoritarian president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, a hashtag gathered steam on Egyptian social media: “It’s your turn, dictator.”The message for President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt was unmistakable. But he hardly needed the warning.Since the ouster of Syria’s longtime dictator on Dec. 8, Egyptian leaders have watched events in the Syrian capital, Damascus, with grim-faced vigilance, knowing well that revolutionary fire has a tendency to spread.Both countries have had a turbulent history since the Arab Spring uprisings that started in late 2010 and spread across the Middle East.The Syrian revolt culminated almost 14 years…

The authorities in Norway have seized a Russian-crewed ship that is suspected of damaging an undersea cable in an act of sabotage in the Baltic Sea, the Norwegian police said on Friday.They were acting on a request from the Latvian authorities and on an order issued in Norwegian courts, the police said in a statement, after an undersea cable that runs between Sweden and Latvia was damaged this week.It is the latest in a growing number of acts of damage or sabotage to undersea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, including to cables used for communication and for the distribution of…

More than 90 percent of the country’s 313 air traffic control facilities operate below the Federal Aviation Administration’s recommended staffing levels, according to an analysis of staffing data from the union representing controllers obtained by The New York Times.As of earlier this month, 285 facilities — which include traffic control towers and other locations — were below staffing thresholds set by the F.A.A. and the union. At 73 of those facilities, staffing is so low that at least a quarter of the work force is missing.The U.S. air travel system remains among the safest in the world. But persistent staff…

Years ago, Mr. Cox said, he was descending in a Boeing 737 over Orlando International Airport when the system alerted him and his co-pilot to traffic nearby. The pilots looked around for another aircraft, but saw nothing. Then, TCAS provided an urgent instruction: “Climb.” Mr. Cox said they did so and later saw a smaller aircraft beneath them. A collision would have been catastrophic, he said.After a series of collisions, culminating in the 1986 crash of a passenger jet and smaller aircraft near Cerritos, Calif., that killed 82 people, Congress instructed the Federal Aviation Administration to require TCAS on all…

“When you were confronted about this accusation, you said you were, quote, not a church boy, and that you, quote, have so many skeletons in my closet. You then texted Miss Cooney an apology and indicated you had no memory of what you described,” Ms. Murray said, asking pointedly whether he had made sexual advances.“No, I did not,” Mr. Kennedy said. He added that the account had been debunked, without offering information to substantiate his claim. Ms. Murray asked why he had apologized. “I apologized for something else,” he replied.(In the text, whose contents were reported by news organizations including…

Billie Eilish and Green Day kicked off the show with a duet. Joni Mitchell made a rare public appearance. Katy Perry pranced around the stage waving a state flag as she belted the 2010 banger, “California Gurls.”Over almost six hours, on two arena stages in South Los Angeles, more than two dozen of the biggest names in pop music gathered for FireAid, a star-studded benefit to raise money for relief efforts after the devastating wildfires across the region.“As far as I’m concerned,” Anderson .Paak told the crowd, “This is one of the greatest nights in Los Angeles history.”It was a…

With the signing of the Window in January, a 78 -year -old American track and field coach is unconventional. For Manchester United and Ruben Amorim, even if it is not the coach’s phone, it is actually very meaningful. On the basis of consulting, Harry Marra (Harry Marra) took a few weeks to effectively cover the ground to effectively improve the unity and unified unity.Marra (Marra) graduated from Syracuse University in 1974. He obtained a master’s degree in sports and sports science. He coaches the coach Decathlete Ashton Eaton at the Olympic Games (London, 2012, 2016, 2016, 2016. Rio (RIO), 2016)…

He blocked Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.He signed a censorship law that led TikTok to disable its functions.President Vladimir V. Putin has clamped down on free expression in Russia to a degree unseen since the Soviet era. Now he is taking aim at the last Western tech platform barely standing in wartime Russia: YouTube.Mr. Putin has not formally banned the U.S. video platform that has more than 2.5 billion users worldwide. But the site has angered Russian authorities, who view the platform as an uncontrollable gateway to antiwar content. They have also decried YouTube for removing Russian propaganda channels as well…

Clues emerging from the moments before the deadly collision Wednesday night between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet suggest that multiple layers of the country’s aviation safety apparatus failed, according to flight recordings, a preliminary internal report from the Federal Aviation Administration, interviews with current and former air traffic controllers and others briefed on the matter.The helicopter flew outside its approved flight path. The American Airlines pilots most likely did not see the helicopter close by as they made a turn toward the runway. And the air traffic controller, who was juggling two jobs at the same…

The older he gets, the more Bill Gates is surprised by what the world dishes up.Take billionaires. There are many now from the tech industry, quite a few with politics that skew forcefully right.“I always thought of Silicon Valley as being left of center,” Mr. Gates said. “The fact that now there is a significant right-of-center group is a surprise to me.”Or take the evolution of technology in the decades since he began Microsoft and made it one of the world’s most valuable companies.“Incredible things happened because of sharing information on the internet,” Mr. Gates said. That much he anticipated.…