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Middle East Crisis: Blinken Says Challenges Remain as U.S. Pushes for Gaza Cease-Fire Deal
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Egypt’s president and foreign minister on his sixth wartime trip to the Middle East.
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Indian Opposition Parties Say They Face Tide of Troubles as Vote Nears
Weeks before pivotal elections, the head of one party was arrested on what his supporters said were trumped-up charges and another party said it lost access to its funds.
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Why Do Autocrats Like Putin Bother to Hold Elections?
These votes can demonstrate control, serve as a warning and create the illusion of accountability.
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As Americans Flee Haiti, 2-Year-Old Is Separated from His Parents
The boy had been dropped off with relatives nearly three weeks ago and was airlifted back to his Florida home. He is part of a growing number of Americans trying to flee Haiti.
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You’ll Never Find Me
“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock) says those words to the nameless woman who shows up at the door of his isolated trailer in the middle of a stormy night, the wordless uneasiness, already present in “You’ll Never Find Me,” shivers into anticipatory dread. We know what’s coming. We’ve…
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BET+’s Diarra from Detroit Successfully Blends Comedy & Mystery
“Minding your own business is a full-time motherf*cking job, and everybody needs to stay employed!” Though this emphatic declaration bookends the new BET+ series “Diarra from Detroit,” which stars writer/creator/actress Diarra Kilpatrick, very few of its characters pay it any mind. The eight-episode blend of mystery and comedy occasionally struggles to find its footing, but…
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Art Takes You Prisoner: Radu Jude on Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
With a title inspired by an aphorism from Polish writer Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Romanian writer-director Radu Jude’s latest dark comedy “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World” takes a sharp satirical swipe at the bleak realities of modern life under neoliberal capitalism. Through the story of an overworked and underpaid production…
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Sports Day Scores a Hit
Sophos team members from the UK gathered at the Abingdon office for a sports day themed get-together.
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Toddlers Smell Like Flowers, Teens Smell ‘Goatlike,’ Study Finds
Two musky steroids, and higher levels of odorous acids, distinguish the body odors of adolescents and tots.
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Long Before Amsterdam’s Coffee Shops, There Were Hallucinogenic Seeds
A nearly 2,000-year-old stash pouch provides the first evidence of the intentional use of a powerful psychedelic plant in Western Europe during the Roman Era.