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Russia Ukraine war day 1326: Blackouts, refinery blaze, NATO
Mascow — Russia Ukraine war day 1326: A predawn volley of drones and missiles lashed Ukraine’s energy grid and cities for the second straight...
Conflicts, Military and War
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...
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...
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Cairo’s high stakes gamble: talks open while Gaza Genocide
Gaza City — Negotiators from Israel and Hamas converged on Egypt on Monday, October 6, 2025, for the most serious push yet to end the...
Egypt talks open as Washington pushes a rapid Gaza ceasefire
Cairo — Delegations converged on Egypt for a fresh round of indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas as Washington pressed for a rapid ceasefire...
Syria elections 2025: Vote counting before vote casting
Damascus. Syria elections 2025 arrived without a public ballot. In governorate halls, roughly six thousand vetted electors filed past plastic seals and red wax,...
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...
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,...
Israel Palestine conflict day 666: Night raid at Sea, detainees pile...
GAZA CITY — In the dead of night on day 666 of the Israel Palestine Conflict, Israeli naval commandos boarded a civilian armada headed...
Gaza Flotilla Grab: Israel’s Navy pounces at dawn, hundreds in custody
GAZA CITY — Under the slate light of a churning Mediterranean, gray silhouettes fanned across the water and closed in. By dawn on Thursday, most...
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...
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Daytime Emmys 2025: “General Hospital” dominates as Attenborough makes history at...
California — On a night that asked daytime television to define itself again, ABC’s “General Hospital” did what institutions do when the spotlight is brightest:...
Victoria’s Secret Reboot 2025: Glamour, Grip and a Shadow
Brooklyn — At Steiner Studios inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Victoria’s Secret staged a return calibrated for nostalgia and for a more edited present, a...
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