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Some Freed Hostages Are Now Learning of Loved Ones’ Deaths
[ad_1] But shortly after they were freed, other family members told them more of what had happened the day they were taken: Their father was taken, too. And their mother had been killed. Their uncle, Ahal Besorai, said the thought of being comforted by their mother and father had kept the teens going in captivity. “This was denied,” he said.…
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Talks were continuing in hopes of reviving the truce.
[ad_1] The foreign ministry of Qatar, which has led the cease-fire talks, said in a statement that negotiations were continuing even amid the fighting. The resumption of airstrikes “complicates mediation efforts and exacerbates the humanitarian catastrophe in the strip,” the ministry said. Under the truce that went into effect last Friday, more than 100 Israeli and dual-national hostages — mostly…
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When Henry Kissinger Became an Opera Character
[ad_1] Henry Kissinger, the polarizing diplomat who died on Wednesday at 100, received copious distinctions over his long career. But one of the most unusual — an honor that was also damning — came in 1987, when he joined Mozart’s Figaro and Puccini’s Tosca as a character in an opera. “Nixon in China,” composed by John Adams and directed by…
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Israel had a blueprint for the Oct. 7 attacks a year ago. Officials dismissed it.
[ad_1] Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point,…
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Surging U.S. Oil Production Brings Down Prices and Raises Climate Fears
[ad_1] American oil fields are gushing again. Only three years after U.S. oil production collapsed during the pandemic, energy companies are cranking out a record 13.2 million barrels a day, more than Russia or Saudi Arabia. The flow of oil has grown by roughly 800,000 barrels a day since early 2022 and analysts expect the industry to add another 500,000…
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Thief in Australia Steals Truck With 10,000 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
[ad_1] Reader, please select your own corny first line for this article: 1. Talk about a sticky-fingered thief! 2. It’s a crime you just can’t sugar coat. 3. I’ve heard of stealing some dough, but this is ridiculous. The tale began at 4 a.m. on Wednesday in Carlingford, Australia, near Sydney, when a delivery driver working the night shift stopped…
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Dozens of Unclaimed Corpses Show That an Indian Conflict Continues
[ad_1] From the start of the ethnic conflict that turned a state in India’s northeast into a war zone, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried to shift the focus from the calamity. His lieutenants trumpeted a peace deal with insurgents, though it was unrelated to the ethnic violence. The government resumed development projects as a sign of a…
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King Charles Says the World Is Entering ‘Uncharted Territory’
[ad_1] At the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai, King Charles III asked the audience how dangerous it’s prepared to make our world. [ad_2] Source link
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Friday Briefing: A New Climate Fund Approved
[ad_1] The climate summit approves a fund to aid poor countries On the first day of the U.N.’s COP28 talks, diplomats from nearly 200 countries approved a draft plan for a fund to help vulnerable countries hit by climate disasters, which are made worse by pollution spewed by wealthy nations. For more than three decades, developing nations have pressed for…
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Friday Briefing – The New York Times
[ad_1] Israel knew of Hamas plot more than a year ago Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the devastating Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, according to documents, emails and interviews, but they dismissed it as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. In fact, Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking…
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