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Middle East Crisis: Netanyahu Agrees to Mediators’ Cease-Fire Proposal, Blinken Says
The U.S. secretary of state said Israel’s prime minister had accepted a “bridging proposal” put forward by mediators and urged Hamas “to do the same.”
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Ukraine Attacks Bridges in Russia’s Kursk Region, Aiming to Encircle Troops
The attacks aim to destroy or damage crossings over a river in the Kursk region that are Russian forces’ only routes for resupply or retreat, military analysts say.
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Ukraine Says Its Incursion Will Bring Peace. Putin’s Plans May Differ.
President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to hold Russian territory as leverage in future talks. In Moscow, many doubt the strategy.
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Tech Entrepreneur Mike Lynch Among 6 Missing After Yacht Sinks Off Sicily
Fifteen other people were rescued. Expert divers were called in to carry out search operations in the deep water. Among the missing was a British software mogul, Mike Lynch.
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A Crackdown in Kuwait After a Fatal Fire Is Hurting Migrant Laborers
After the blaze killed 49 migrant workers, a government crackdown focused on building violations — bypassing deeper problems that leave migrants with low wages and unsafe housing across the oil-rich Gulf.
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The Most Vital Actress of Her Generation: A Goodbye to Gena Rowlands
Richard Brody, the highly esteemed critic of The New Yorker, would often wish Gena Rowlands a Happy Birthday on the 19th of every June, writing in 2022 that she was “the most inventive, creative, original, transformative actress in the history of cinema.” He wasn’t wrong. And now she’s gone. Our very own Sheila O’Malley wrote…
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Locarno Film Festival 2024: Eight Postcards from Utopia and Sleep #2
Radu Jude is a cheeky filmmaker, espousing a biting Romanian humor that takes to task the history, politics and culture of his country and the outside economic forces by world powers that have unmoored it. He arrived at Locarno Film Festival—where his previous film “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World”…
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This Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies Into Its Web
In China, the arachnids seem to somehow manipulate the flashing of a caught male firefly to resemble a female’s come-hither signal.
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This Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies Into Its Web
In China, the arachnids seem to somehow manipulate the flashing of a caught male firefly to resemble a female’s come-hither signal.
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School Lunch Ideas
With just a few tweaks and a smidgen of planning, you can pack lunches that come home eaten.