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Israel Palestine Conflict Day 686: Deadlines, Pressure, and the Truce on a Clock
Jerusalem — On Day 686 of the Israel Palestine conflict, the conversation around a fragile Gaza truce widened beyond battlefield metrics to the levers...
Conflicts, Military and War
Israel Palestine Conflict Day 685: ‘Durable’ ceasefire, thin trust, and the test at the gates
Jerusalem — On Day 685 of the Israel Palestine Conflict, the ceasefire that was sold as a reset remains a daily test of will,...
Gaza Ceasefire Shaken: Aid Trucks, Remains, and Risk
GAZA CITY — The ceasefire that promised a narrow corridor out of a two-year war met its first real test of the ceasefire over...
Israeli strikes shatter Gaza truce as Washington looks away
The first real test of the Gaza ceasefire arrived with explosions, broken glass and another stretch of bodies on hospital floors. Israeli warplanes struck...
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Israel Palestine Conflict Day 680: Ceasefire Stalls at the Gates
GAZA — Israel Palestine Conflict Day 680, the ceasefire that promised a pivot from war to recovery is straining under the weight of logistics,...
Coffins Test Gaza Truce: Remains Dispute Stalls Deal
JERUSALEM — The deal that promised to stop the gunfire is being judged, in its first days, by what comes home under a white...
Russia Ukraine war day 1330: Kyiv counts the hours between blackout...
KYIV — Ukraine’s worst fears for the winter returned to life in the dark. Before dawn on Thursday, waves of drones and cruise missiles...
Israel Palestine Conflict Day 679: Ceasefire or Chokehold, Gaza Counts the...
GAZA CITY — A week into a ceasefire that has quieted some guns but not the machinery of control, the Israel Palestine conflict sits in...
Hamas to transfer four more bodies as Gaza truce leans on...
Gaza City — Hamas has told mediators it will transfer four more bodies of deceased hostages to Israel on Wednesday, a move that would...
Israel Palestine Conflict Day 678: Ceasefire of Excuses, Aid Held Hostage
GAZA STRIP — A week into what negotiators call a “first phase,” the ceasefire looks less like leadership and more like damage control. Israeli...
Israel Palestine Conflict Day 667: Israel’s gatekeepers squeeze aid as Gaza...
GAZA — On Day 667 of the Israel Palestine conflict, the war felt, briefly, suspended between ceremony and rubble. In a resort city chosen...
Israel Palestine Conflict Day 677: Gate games, aid squeezed, US shrugs
JERUSALEM — On Day 677 of the Israel Palestine conflict, the truce’s survival is being decided not in summit halls but in morgues, border...
Israel Palestine Conflict Day 676: Ceasefire runs on gates, fuel, and...
Gaza — On Day 676 of the conflict, the pause that briefly lowered the temperature of a two-year war now reads less like an...
Israel Palestine Conflict Day 674: Proof Over Promises
Gaza City — The quiet that people prayed for arrived in fragments, a lull in a long season of alarms, a crowd singing in...
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Murakami’s Octopus Hijacks Paris, Vuitton’s Artycapucines Stun
PARIS — The octopus appeared first, suspended on the Balcon d’Honneur inside the newly restored Grand Palais, its luminescent tentacles exhaling color into the...
Kate Baldwin to play Roxie, Alex Newell joins Chicago as Mama...
The longest-running American musical on Broadway is adding fresh electricity to its marquee. This November, Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre will welcome two performers...
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