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LONDON — U.S. President Joe Biden is backing outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as the next secretary general of NATO, a U.S. official said on Thursday, soon after Britain’s Foreign Office said the same.
By Guy Faulconbridge and Arshad Mohammed
LONDON — Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent system misfired during a test last month, when a missile crashed into the ocean off the Florida coast near the submarine that launched it, The Sun newspaper reported on Wednesday.
SEOUL — South Korea’s biggest hospitals cancelled procedures and turned away patients seeking emergency care on Wednesday after thousands of trainee doctors walked off the job in protest at a government plan to boost medical school admissions.
THE HAGUE — The United States said on Wednesday the World Court should not order the unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Palestinian territories as it considers a request for its opinion on the legality of the occupation.
DAMASCUS — An Israeli air strike hit a residential building in the Kafr Sousa district in Syria’s capital Damascus on Wednesday, killing two people, Syrian state media and a security source said.
LONDON — Even if the fighting in Gaza stopped now, about 8,000 more people could still die there over the next six months due to the public health crisis caused by the Israel-Hamas war, according to a report by independent researchers in the US and Britain.
LONDON — The United Arab Emirates, host of last year’s COP28 climate summit, called on Tuesday for governments to take action in transitioning away from fossil fuels.