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Middle East Crisis: Israeli Cabinet Deal Would Save West Bank From Economic Crisis, at a Price
Israel has dealt blow after financial blow to the Palestinian Authority, alarming the United States, which wants it to have a role in running postwar Gaza.
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Iran’s 2024 Presidential Election: What to Know
Iran will hold a special election on Friday to replace former President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May.
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Racist and Homophobic Comments Unsettle U.K. Election Campaign
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak denounced a slur used against him by a man campaigning for Reform U.K., the anti-immigration party led by Nigel Farage.
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Iran Holds Vote to Pick a President
The latest polling suggested Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate, was in the lead, but not enough to avoid a runoff.
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Iran’s Presidential Candidates: Who Are They?
Four of the six candidates selected by officials to run in Iran’s special presidential election are still in the running after the president died in a helicopter crash last month.
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Why Can’t New York Make a Proper Monument to Gay History?
Fifty-five years after Stonewall, a new tourist center suggests that what the riots stood for is old history. But is everything now OK?
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Amid Challenges, Small New York City Museums Are Closing Their Doors
One quarter of all cultural institutions are dipping into their reserves or endowments to cover operating expenses. Mergers may be on the horizon.
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Napoleon’s Loot: When the World Decided Stolen Art Should Go Back
As museums encounter increasing claims on their collections, experts say much of the debate hearkens back to 1815, when the Louvre was forced to surrender the spoils of war.
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Kevin Costner: The Last of the Cornball American Directors
If you’re an animal in a movie Kevin Costner directs, I have bad news: You may not be long for this world. It’s a habit of the Oscar-winning filmmaker that his heroes regularly befriend a loyal creature—a horse, a dog, a wolf—forming a bond that, sometimes, is the closest relationship these solitary characters have. Don’t…
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Why NASA and Boeing Are Being So Careful to Bring the Starliner Astronauts Home
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will spend additional weeks in orbit as teams on the ground study malfunctioning thrusters on the Starliner spacecraft.