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Friday Briefing: Gaza Cease-Fire to Begin Today
[ad_1] The cease-fire in Gaza is expected to begin today The Qatari government, which has brokered negotiations between Israel and Hamas, said a four-day pause in fighting in Gaza would begin this morning, followed by the hostage and prisoner releases. The events could lead to a significant diplomatic breakthrough in the war, now in its seventh week. Here’s the latest.…
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What’s in the Israel-Hamas Cease-fire and Hostage Release Deal
[ad_1] A deal between Israel and Hamas for a temporary cease-fire is expected to go into effect on Friday. Here is a closer look at the agreement, mediated in part by Qatar, and how it is expected to play out. What’s in the deal? The agreement is for at least a four-day pause in hostilities. During that time, at least…
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Germany Announces Special Budget to Avert Crisis
[ad_1] How We Got Here: A court ruling put spending plans into disarray. The move came after days of uncertainty triggered by the ruling from the country’s highest court that declared elements of the 2023 budget invalid because of a rule that limits borrowing. The so-called debt brake can be suspended only in times of emergency, and the government had…
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Israel Releases Videos It Says Show Hamas Tunnels Under Al-Shifa Hospital
[ad_1] The Israeli military sought on Wednesday to bolster its assertions that Hamas uses tunnels beneath Gaza’s largest hospital, releasing a series of videos that it said showed “dozens of meters of a tunnel system” beneath the complex of Al-Shifa Hospital. Israeli and American officials have said that Hamas uses hospitals to provide cover for its military operations, accusations that…
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Families in the West Bank Eagerly Await a Prisoner Release
[ad_1] As soon as the Tanji siblings heard that their youngest sister, Walaa, could be released from an Israeli prison on Thursday, they began frantically preparing for her arrival. Some were arranging transportation for family members scattered across the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Others rented plastic chairs to accommodate the crowds that would come to greet her. A friend even flew…
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More Than 100 Bodies Are Delivered to a Mass Grave in Southern Gaza
[ad_1] In Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip where many Palestinians have fled to escape Israeli bombardment of the north, 111 bodies wrapped in bright blue bags arrived on Wednesday in a shipping container on the back of a truck. The bodies were believed to be from Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, which Israeli troops seized last…
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India Faces Questions About Another Reported Foreign Assassination Plot
[ad_1] For the second time in recent months, the Indian government is facing questions about whether it was involved in an assassination plot on Western soil, as American officials said they had expressed concerns to New Delhi about a thwarted plan to kill a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen. U.S. officials did not publicly accuse India of trying to orchestrate the killing…
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W.H.O. Asks China for Details on Surge of Respiratory Illness in Children
[ad_1] The World Health Organization has formally requested that China share detailed information about a recent increase in respiratory illnesses, citing unconfirmed media reports of undiagnosed pneumonia in children. China has been reporting a jump in respiratory illnesses for months. Chinese media reports have described long lines at pediatric hospitals, and doctors have said that this year’s wave appeared to…
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Putin Eyes Another Term as President, With War as Backdrop
[ad_1] When asked last week what kind of leader should replace President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, his longtime spokesman gave a quick and simple answer: “the same.” “Or different, but the same,” the spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, told a Russian television network, adding that he was confident that should Mr. Putin run, he would win the election “without doubt”…
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Chinese Hospital Overloaded as Child Respiratory Illnesses Surge
[ad_1] new video loaded: Chinese Hospital Overloaded as Child Respiratory Illnesses Surge Families crowded the waiting room and registration area of Capital Institute of Pediatrics, a hospital in Beijing, with respiratory illnesses in children increasing in the country. Recent episodes in China news videos [ad_2] Source link
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