WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the effort by relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to seize $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan central bank funds to pay off judgment debts owed by the Taliban, in part because he said doing so would mean effectively recognizing the militants as the legitimate government […]
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‘It’s Our Central Park’: Uproar Rises Over Location of New Toronto Homes
TORONTO — Spreading across two million acres, Toronto’s Greenbelt is a vast swath of protected and ecologically sensitive lands that forms an arc around the city and its suburbs, as if holding Canada’s most populous and fastest-growing region in an embrace. “It’s our Central Park,” said Jeff Bowers, 57, recently retired from a “high-stress, 24/7” […]