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Havana’s Stage-Managed Gaza protest meets a fragile ceasefire

Havana — At sunrise on Thursday, the broad sweep of the Malecón filled with people and percussion. Thousands of Cubans, students in white guayaberas,...

Taiwan’s defence report: China rehearses for a blockade

Taipei — Taiwan’s Defence Ministry has issued its most direct warning in years that China is moving from pressure to preparation, from drills that shape...

Putin presses Central Asia to align trade as sanctions bite

Dushanbe — Vladimir Putin arrived with a familiar pitch and a sharpened edge. At a summit with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and...

Trump’s “first phase” Gaza deal, a fragile pause with hostages freed...

Tel Aviv — The war that has defined the region for two bruising years reached a hinge point on Thursday, as Israel and Hamas accepted...
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Sunday Showdown: Trump’s Gaza clock, Israel preps first step

Washington. Cairo. Tel Aviv: With a Sunday deadline looming in Washington time, the fragile outline of a ceasefire in Gaza is taking on more...

Trump’s bullying ultimatum to Palestinians, not Israel, and Hamas’ defiant response...

Under a brooding October sky, the world watched in stunned disbelief as President Donald Trump unveiled his 20-point Gaza peace plan — a blueprint...

Russia Ukraine war Day 1318: Tanker seized, nuclear jitters, prisoners return

Kyiv. Zaporizhzhia. Paris. Sochi: The Russia Ukraine war entered Day 1,318 on Friday with a set of developments that pulled the conflict’s logic in...

Trump’s ticking clock on Gaza: Hamas hedges as Israel braces

TEL AVIV — A deadline now governs a war that has defied clocks for nearly two years. With hours left until Sunday at 6...

Israel Palestine Conflict day 667: Israel seizes Gaza flotilla boat, deportations...

ASHDOD, Israel—The last boat in a weeks-long civilian convoy to Gaza, an aging trawler renamed Marinette, was seized at sea before dawn on Friday,...

Russia Ukraine war, day 1317: winter test, grids hit, Europe on...

Russia — The Russia Ukraine war, now on Day 1317, continues to redraw the map of risk in Europe. The front is not only...

Russia Ukraine war, Day 1316: Chornobyl power cut jolts Europe

Moscow — Russia Ukraine war Day 1316 unfolded with a familiar, and more perilous, rhythm: missiles and drones probing power nodes, fresh damage to...

Israel Palestine Conflict day 665: Aid Flotilla dares blockade as toll...

GAZA CITY — Israeli strikes again battered the coastal enclave on Wednesday even as an unprecedented civilian flotilla pressed toward the shoreline in a...

Russia Ukraine war day 1315: Grind gains edge as Europe flinches

KIYV — Russia Ukraine war Day 1315 of the war opened to a familiar metronome in Ukraine’s east: sirens over Kharkiv, the thud of...

Russia Ukraine war day 1314: Kyiv reels as ZNPP risk and...

Kyiv — The explosions came in waves, thickening the pre-dawn sky over the capital with streaks of light and the dull thud of impacts...
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Havana’s Stage-Managed Gaza protest meets a fragile ceasefire

Havana — At sunrise on Thursday, the broad sweep of the Malecón filled with people and percussion. Thousands of Cubans, students in white guayaberas,...

Taiwan’s defence report: China rehearses for a blockade

Taipei — Taiwan’s Defence Ministry has issued its most direct warning in years that China is moving from pressure to preparation, from drills that shape...
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