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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump.
Opinion
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The Israeli right may soon be disenchanted with Trump

BRET STEPHENS: The most interesting detail of the Israeli and Hamas hostage and ceasefire deal isn’t in its terms, which mainly resemble what’s been on the table for months, it’s the way the deal was secured.

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President Joe Biden greets the crowd before delivering remarks about his foreign policy, at the State Department in Washington on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025
US Politics
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Biden promotes foreign policy in his final week in office

President Joe Biden kicked off his final week in office with a robust defence of his foreign policy, arguing in a speech that America had grown stronger on his watch and had ‘the wind at our back’.

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A Hamas official said a deal was possible in the coming two days as long as Israel does not change its position at the last minute.
Middle East
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Gaza peace deal gains momentum ahead of Trump inauguration

THE NEW YORK TIMES: There is ‘a distinct possibility’ that Hamas and Israel could agree to a peace deal this week. Here we take a look at what they are negotiating and what are the biggest hurdles.

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Donald Trump’s territorial ambitions rattle a weary world; a distant era of global politics, when nations scrambled to grab territory, suddenly seems less distant.
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World
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‘Here we go again’: Trump’s ambitions rattle a weary world

When Donald Trump won a return to the White House, many countries thought they knew what to expect and how to prepare for what was coming.  But it’s getting harder for the world to keep calm and carry on.

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President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 7, 2025. Trump’s news conference at Mar-a-Lago was a reminder of what the next four years may have in store.
analysis
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Trump’s chaotic conference a reminder of what’s in store

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Trump has returned to our daily national cognisance, even though one could argue he never really left. Tuesday’s news conference was a reminder of what that was like and what’s in store.

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Donald Trump aired a hodgepodge of grievances, complaints, false claims and bold claims to expand the US empire by using force to claim Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal.
US Politics
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Trump airs plans to expand US empire in rambling conference

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump aired a hodgepodge of grievances, complaints, false claims and bold claims to expand the US empire by using force to claim Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal.

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Syrians protest against changes to the public school curriculum outside the Ministry of Education in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 5, 2025. Syria’s new government has swiftly ordered changes to school curriculums.
World
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Raft of changes by interim government unsettle Syrians

Just weeks after a coalition of rebels toppled the Assad regime, the interim government they have set up in Damascus has moved quickly to order a raft of changes.

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MICHELLE GOLDBERG: As the world’s richest man and a quasi-official member of Donald Trump’s team, Musk has enormous influence, and his admirers in both the United States and Britain have taken up the cause. 
opinion
UK
The New York Times

Why Musk, the most powerful troll on earth, is targeting UK

MICHELLE GOLDBERG: As the world’s richest man and a quasi-official member of Donald Trump’s team, Musk has enormous influence, and his admirers in both the United States and Britain have taken up the cause. 

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President-Elect Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives to a New Year’s Eve event at Mar-o-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 31, 2024. President Joe Biden is bequeathing his successor a nation that by many measures is in good shape, even if voters remain unconvinced.(Eric Lee/The New York Times)
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US Politics
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Ruling shows legal issues will follow Trump into office

THE NEW YORK TIMES: As President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, some of the legal cases that spilled out of Trump’s first presidency will follow him into the second.

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**EMBARGO: No electronic distribution, Web posting or street sales before 12:01 a.m. ET Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. No exceptions for any reasons. EMBARGO set by source.** A damaged Jeju Air plane after a crash at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, on Dec. 20, 2024. South Korea’s leading low-cost carrier, heavy with debt and its stock already near record lows, is now facing intense public and government scrutiny. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
World
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Jeju Air facing collapse after tragic accident killed 179

A week after a crash that killed 179 people on December 29, Jeju Air’s future is clouded by even deeper questions.

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A black flag with white lettering lies on the ground rolled up behind a pickup truck that a man drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
World
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Terrifying way Islamic State group radicalises ‘lone wolfs’

Despite losing thousands of fighters to death or prison, and suffering the demise of its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group is still radicalising recruits. This is how.

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An unused ISIS suicide car bomb captured by Iraqi special forces in west Mosul on July 23, 2017. The group whose flag was found after a New Orleans truck-ramming attack has never stopped orchestrating and inspiring acts of terror.
World
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What to know about the Islamic State’s acts of terror

ISIS has left a brutal legacy of death and destruction across the world. The group whose flag was found after a New Orleans truck-ramming attack has never stopped orchestrating and inspiring acts of terror.

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A vast area of Homs, Syria has been turned to rubble after the city was bombarded and besieged by former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s military for years, Dec. 16, 2024.Rebels easily toppled Syria’s army and their path to victory is littered with evidence of Syria’s defeated military, reflecting the sizable task of trying to put the country back together. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)
World
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Rebels easily toppled Syria’s army. Now comes the hard part

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Rebels easily toppled Syria’s army and their path to victory is littered with evidence of Syria’s defeated military, reflecting the sizeable task of trying to put the country back together.

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Shamsud-Din Jabbar was named as the suspect in the attack in New Orleans.
USA
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Suspect in New Orleans attack had an ISIS flag with him

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In recent months Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a native of Texas had been acting erratically, ‘being all crazy, cutting his hair’ after converting to Islam.

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Trump has bragged to people that Musk — the world’s richest man — is “renting” one of the residential spaces at Mar-a-Lago.
USA
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How Musk has planted himself at Trump’s doorstep (literally)

Elon Musk plays many roles with President-elect Donald Trump. He is Trump’s most important donor, most influential social media promoter and a key adviser. Since Election Day, he has also been Trump’s tenant.

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