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Middle East Crisis: Hamas Names an Architect of Oct. 7 Attacks as New Political Leader
Hamas announced that Yahya Sinwar would take over as the group’s political leader after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran.
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Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Sheikh Hasina’s Chaotic Final Hours
As masses of people converged, angry at the killing of protesters, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina insisted that she could hold on, which military leaders said would mean spilling far more blood.
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Venezuela’s Strongman Was Confident of Victory. Then Came the Shock.
Venezuela’s government believed its control of all levers of power would give the country’s authoritarian president an Election Day victory. A rebellion by its supporters undid the plan.
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Muhammad Yunus to Head Bangladesh Interim Government
The new government was being formed a day after Bangladesh’s longtime leader, facing fierce protests, fled the country.
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Can Freed Russian Dissidents Help Energize Opposition Movement?
The release of activists like Ilya Yashin gives new hope to a movement in which various groups are often at war with each other. But many have doubts.
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Whitney Museum Announces 2026 Biennial Curators
Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer will organize the 82nd edition of the museum’s signature survey of contemporary American art.
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SDCC 2024: Activations, Apes and Other Animals
San Diego Comic-Con is known for its activations, and the best of 2024 were, by far, presentations by Paramount+ and 20th Century Fox. Outside the San Diego Convention Center, for the second year in a row, Paramount+ used Happy Does Bar as its base for The Lodge. Although the film “Kingdom of the Planet of…
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Short Films in Focus: Welcome to the Enclave
Sarah Lasley’s sneaky and unsettling “Welcome to the Enclave” starts out looking like an overly corporate and sterile intro video for a virtual suburban neighborhood one can visit online. The music sounds straight out of an iMovie effects library, and the graphics look like an outdated template for a 3-D Graphic Design For Beginners program…
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I Saw the Sixth Sense Knowing the Big Twist, and Loved It Anyway
“The Sixth Sense” is the movie that made its writer-director M. Night Shyamalan a cultural force, and he’s been one ever since. It’s also the movie that stereotyped him as a filmmaker whose work is dependent on plot twists. If you reading this piece about a 25-year old movie that grossed almost $700 million and has been…
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Turning the screws: The pressure tactics of ransomware gangs
Sophos X-Ops examines the increasingly aggressive tactics ransomware gangs use to coerce their targets