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Gaza ceasefire first phase tests US and Israel claims
Gaza City — Noon passed and with it a line on the map shifted, not to peace, but to a pause that people in Gaza...
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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...
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Russia Ukraine war day 1319: Munich drones snarl flights, Zaporizhzhia plant...
Warsaw: On day 1,319 of the Russia Ukraine war, the map of risk stretched from western Ukraine’s rail lines to the airspace above Germany...
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...
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Russia Ukraine war Day 1324: Kyiv grid hit, evacuations in Donetsk
KYIV — Before dawn the city went dark by districts, stairwells filling with the hard glow of phone flashlights as air raid sirens stitched...
Letitia James Indictment Tests DOJ and New York Politics
New York — The clash between legal process and political theatre narrowed to a few lines on a mortgage form, and then widened again...
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