Since early October, American and other Western health and biodefense officials have been concerned by reports on social media that a young Russian researcher at an anti-plague institute in Siberia had died of a highly contagious form of plague after accidentally breaking a vial of the deadly germs in her laboratory.

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Soon after 9/11, law enforcement and national security officials identified the perpetrators of the deadliest terrorist attack in American history.

While Osama bin Laden, the attack's architect, was killed in 2011 and al-Qaeda is now a shadow of its former self, New York faces no shortage of potential threats a quarter-century after September 11. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch recently said that New York City now confronts the most perilous threat environment that she has seen in her 18 years in government. "It's an everything, everywhere all at once terrorist threat environment," said Rebecca Weiner, the New York Police Department's Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism.

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Great Britain's revolving door of prime ministers accelerated in June with the resignation of Keir Starmer, its 6th leader 10 years. As Andy Burnham, the popular former mayor of Manchester, hovered in the wings, and Starmer's approval ratings plunged to an all-time low, the former prime minister was living on borrowed time.

Weak and indecisive and with his domestic policies in shambles, the media had nicknamed him Keir Stumbler.

And then there was his embarrassing feud with President Donald J. Trump over defense and foreign policy.

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The Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, was an assault about 15 times as large, on a per capita basis, than the 9/11 attacks. When it was over, more Jews had been murdered than on any single day since the Holocaust.

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When I arrived in Egypt as The New York Times' Cairo Bureau Chief in the early 1980's, I never imagined that I would be spending so much time in Israel.

I had barely unpacked when I found myself on a plane to Tel Aviv, not to cover a story in Israel, but the 1983 suicide truck bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut, a terrorist attack that had killed 241 unsuspecting U.S. servicemen as they slept in their barracks.

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