[ad_1] Hamas is no longer demanding that Israel immediately agree to a permanent cease-fire in return for beginning a hostage and prisoner exchange, according to people familiar with the negotiations. Hamas’s new proposal would allow the release of hostages in…
[ad_1] The United Nations human rights office has documented more than two dozen attacks on Gazans waiting for desperately needed aid since January, with hunger spreading as a result of Israel’s near complete siege, preventing most food and water from…
[ad_1] How do you produce a global sporting event, with millions of people swooping down on one city, in the age of global warming? That is the test for the Paris Olympics this summer. The organizers say they’re putting the…
[ad_1] A Ukrainian missile attack killed two people in western Russia, and a separate drone strike set an oil refinery ablaze on Saturday, an official said, during the second day of an election that Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Kyiv of…
[ad_1] Why does this election matter? India is holding its multiphase general elections from April 19 to June 1, in a vote that will determine the political direction of the world’s most populous nation for the next five years. The…
[ad_1] India on Saturday announced its six-week-long general election will start on April 19, with most surveys predicting a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in the country of 1.4 billion people. Voting in…
[ad_1] Israel has unveiled its Eurovision entry — for a second time — even as calls persist for a boycott of the popular song contest if the country is allowed to compete as the war in Gaza continues. Eurovision organizers…
[ad_1] one of the deadliest wildfires in decades ripped through Chile’s coastal cities of Vina Del mar and Quilpué. It was a perfect storm of extreme climate conditions and management failures that left thousands of people vulnerable. Urban expansion, driven…
[ad_1] Baseball devotees are known to anticipate the onset of spring with a special fervor. In February 1971, John Hutchens wrote in The Times, “He is beginning to emerge from his cotton‐wool haze, the hopelessly addicted baseball fan for whom…
[ad_1] A new sign went up a few miles from the front line recently on the main billboard of an occupied town in Ukraine’s Luhansk region. “Vote for our president. Together we’re strong,” read the sign in the white, blue…