War
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World
Wednesday Briefing: Aid Workers Killed in Gaza
Plus, President Biden talked to Xi Jinping.
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Arts
What’s the Quickest Path to World War III?
In “The Return of Great Powers” and “Up in Arms,” Jim Sciutto and Adam E. Casey consider modern-day superpower conflict through the lens of the past.
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World
Strike in Damascus Is an Escalation in Israel’s Undeclared War With Iran
Israel’s bombing of an Iranian Embassy building in Damascus, which killed senior Iranian military and intelligence officials, is a major escalation of what has long been a simmering undeclared war between Israel and Iran. But while the strike is a ...
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World
Trump’s Call for Israel to ‘Finish Up’ War Alarms Some on the Right
Recent remarks he made urging an end to the Gaza conflict, with no insistence on freeing Israeli hostages first, were another departure from conservatives’ support for Benjamin Netanyahu.
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World
Dispute Over Conscription for Ultra-Orthodox Jews Presents New Threat to Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is divided about whether ultra-Orthodox Jews should be required to join the Israeli army.
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World
What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?
There seems to be a broad consensus atop the Democratic Party about the war in Gaza, structured around two propositions. First, after the attacks of Oct. 7, Israel has the right to defend itself and defeat Hamas. Second, the way Israel is doing this ...
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Arts
Let’s Say Someone Did Drop the Bomb. Then What?
NUCLEAR WAR: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen COUNTDOWN: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, by Sarah Scoles When it comes to nuclear catastrophe, there is a large and ever-expanding body of books and films. Movies have an obvious visual advantage ...
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Arts
Sparks Fly in Spicy New Romances
Romantasy loves to gild its protagonists with royal lineage and awe-inspiring powers, but sometimes we find books that take the ground-up view rather than the crown-down one. Rebecca Ross’s DIVINE RIVALS (Wednesday Books, 357 pp., $18.99) and ...
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World
Blinken Meets With Netanyahu as U.S.-Israel Tensions Rise
The Biden administration accelerated efforts to halt the Gaza war on Friday as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Israeli leaders in Tel Aviv and the C.I.A. director traveled to Qatar, where mediators were trying to narrow gaps between ...
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World
When African Women Are Raped, Where Is the Outrage?
In the summer of 2023, while I was negotiating the price of a pair of cloud-shaped wire sunglasses, a man walked behind me and sexually assaulted me. I was at a stall in one of the many open-air markets in Mekelle, Ethiopia’s second largest city.The ...