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After a monthslong standoff, Israel is softening some of its demands in negotiations over a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages held there.As part of its latest proposal,...

In the small Bombay theater that showed big films, his father brought him — over and over again — to see the biggest of them all.With every one of his 18 viewings...

A Ukrainian official said early Wednesday that a Russian missile attack overnight had killed three people and injured three others in Odesa, a southern Ukrainian city that has been a regular target...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Sometime early last year, I stumbled across an article by two scholars that...

A man raised the Hamas flag as others waved the Fatah emblem during a demonstration in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron to show solidarity with the Palestinians of the Gaza...

Israel reduced its demands, raising hopes for a cease-fireIsraeli negotiators have reduced the number of hostages they want Hamas to release in the initial phase of a truce to 33 from 40,...

Fears of renewed ethnic slaughter in the Sudanese region of Darfur, where genocidal violence killed as many as 300,000 people two decades ago, have soared in recent days, with a looming assault...

Gérard Depardieu was ordered on Monday to stand trial on criminal charges that he sexually assaulted two women during a 2021 film shoot in France, deepening the French actor’s legal woes and...

Israeli officials increasingly believe that the International Criminal Court is preparing to issue arrest warrants for senior government officials on charges related to the conflict with Hamas, according to five Israeli and...

The Philippines closed all public schools on Monday and Tuesday because of dangerously high temperatures, moving classes online in a country where schools are typically shut because of tropical storms.Over the past...