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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
UK
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Labour’s first Budget offers chance for a much-needed reset

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government has gotten off to a turbulent start since his Labour Party won a landslide election victory. But the first Budget offers a chance for a reset.

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Looking out over Tehran after hearing the sound of explosions on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. IsraelÕs retaliatory attack on Iran on Saturday morning marked the start of a new and more dangerous phase in the two countriesÕ yearslong conflict, but it appeared, at least for now, to have stopped short of prompting an all-out war, analysts said. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)
World
The New York Times

Israel’s ‘Shadow War’ enters a new era of strife

Israel’s retaliatory attack on Iran marked the start of a new and more dangerous phase in the two countries’ yearslong conflict, but it appeared to have stopped short of prompting an all-out war, analysts said.

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Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, during a campaign rally in Traverse City, Mich., on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. A campaign marked by TrumpÕs apocalyptic extremes has turned even darker in its final days, as he threatens to prosecute and imprison a wide range of people involved in elections and politics. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
US Politics
The New York Times

Trump threats escalate as campaign enters dark final stretch

THE NEW YORK TIMES: A campaign marked by Donald Trump’s apocalyptic extremes has turned even darker in its final days.

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Hugh Grant in New York, on September 11, 2024. The seemingly droll, breezy star is sentimental about his family and utterly serious about his work, including his villainous turn in Heretic.
The New York Times
The New York Times

The many versions of Hugh Grant, from droll to dark

The actor has been suffering from brand confusion since 1994. But his recent run of strange and sometimes creepy characters plays so well against type that you begin to suspect you were mistaken about him.

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Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, during a campaign event in Green Bay, Wis., Oct. 17, 2024.
US Politics
The New York Times

Why I think the US Election is happening too soon

DAVID BROOKS: No matter who wins this election, it will be close, and this is still going to be an evenly and bitterly divided nation.

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Soldier is holding torch with fire. Man in camouflage uniform and checkered keffiyeh shemagh bandana. Terrorist in the mountains gorge. War concept. White hills and dry grass in the desert.
The New York Times
The New York Times

Is Afghanistan’s most wanted militant now its best hope?

For almost two decades, one name above all others inspired fear among ordinary Afghans: Sirajuddin Haqqani. But since the Americans’ withdrawal in 2021, Haqqani has portrayed himself as something else.

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Smoke billows from one of the towers of the World Trade Center and flames and debris explode from the second tower, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
The New York Times
The New York Times

Why the 9/11 defendants’ trial still hasn’t started

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The five men who are accused of conspiring in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were captured two decades ago, but a trial is still unlikely to start before 2026. Here’s why.

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Yahya Sinwar's death is the latest manifestation of a century-old premise around Israel and the Jewish state..
Middle East
The New York Times

Sinwar’s death embodies Israel’s long-held deterrence quest

The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwa is the latest manifestation of a century-old premise first floated by a Zionist leader a quarter-century before Israel was founded.

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People gather to watch news on Yahya Sinwar’s fate, the day after Israel announced it had killed the Hamas leader, in a makeshift roadside cafe in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. War-weary Palestinians there expressed one emotion again and again: relief.
Middle East
The New York Times

Autopsy results reveal how Hamas leader Yahya Sinwa died

The director of Israel’s national forensic institute has described the findings from an autopsy after the leader of terrorist group Hamas was killed.

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Fighting continues in Gaza even as a parallel conflict intensifies on the Israel-Lebanon border. (AP PHOTO)
opinion
The New York Times
The New York Times

How US can stop a Mideast missile war everyone will lose

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: We really need some creative, coercive U.S. diplomacy right now to finally put an end to both Israel’s and Iran’s colonial projects, which feed each other.

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Former President Donald Trump called his opponents ”evil” at an event.
analysis
The New York Times
The New York Times

Trump escalates threats to opponents he deems the ‘enemy’

With three weeks left before Election Day, former President Donald Trump has a menacing political threat: that he would use the power of the presidency to crush those who disagree with him.

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The Arizona delegation area is empty at the end of day three of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024.
Opinion
The New York Times

America is on the brink of a great political realignment

MICHELLE GOLDBERG: We still don’t know how Donald Trump’s reshuffling of our political coalitions is going to shake out. Right now, though, Kamala Harris sees an opportunity, and she’s trying to seize it.

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Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, waves as she arrives in Raleigh, NC.
US Politics
The New York Times

Why Kamala Harris is portraying Trump as ‘weak and unstable’

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Vice President Kamala Harris has issued a pointed challenge at former President Donald Trump in her latest comments. But what is the strategy behind this attack?

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The United States is sending the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (pictured in Guam in 2023) with about 100 American troops to operate it to Israel.
Middle East
The New York Times

US to deploy missile defence system and troops to Israel

The United States is sending an advanced missile defence system to Israel, along with troops to operate it, the Pentagon has revealed.

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Lebanon’s political future was “for the Lebanese to decide and no one else.” 
Middle East
The New York Times

US aims to revive failed UN plan for Lebanon War

At the heart of diplomatic efforts to halt Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon is a decades-old UN resolution that was intended to demilitarise the area and protect Israel from cross-border attacks.

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