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Aid trucks from Egypt were expected to enter the devastated Gaza Strip on Sunday under a new U.S.-brokered deal to reopen a vital channel for humanitarian aid.Egypt has blocked aid from entering the enclave through its territory since Israel occupied the Rafah crossing - which provides access to southern Gaza - in early May. The two sides have traded blame for the closure of the crossing, even as aid has piled up on the Egyptian side. After pressure from the United States, Egypt announced Friday that it had agreed to divert trucks through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing, which is about two miles from the Rafah crossing, as a temporary measure.About 200 trucks carrying food and other aid from Egypt entered Gaza through Kerem Shalom on Sunday, according to Ahmad Ezzat, an Egyp...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and provides behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism is born.Molly Mirhashem is used to running in circles, literally.Six days a week, Ms. Mirhashem runs near her home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Much of her weekly mileage takes place on the same approximately 3.5-mile loop at a nearby park. Her training will come in handy: This weekend she will run the Buffalo Marathon in upstate New York. It will be the ninth time she has run 22 kilometers since she first became passionate about the marathon in 2017.Ms. Mirhashem, a fitness editor at Well Desk, came to the New York Times last month from Outside Magazine, where she spent eight years assigning and editing articles on health and wellness, among other responsibilities.One of his...

For generations, the residents of Collyweston – a village in central England nestled against the River Welland – have passed down stories of a great Tudor palace, of royal processions through the valley below, of a king's mother who had called it home.For hundreds of years, the stories persisted, even as memory of where the palace stood faded. But the tradition suddenly came to life when a handful of amateur historians unearthed parts of the long-lost palace, buried under a few meters of earth. Historians at the University of York verified their findings.“We're a small village with a small group of enthusiasts, and what we've achieved here is nothing short of a miracle,” said Chris Close, 49, president of the Collyweston Historical and Preservation Society. “You know, it'...

In its lawsuit accusing Live Nation Entertainment, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, of being an illegal monopoly, the Justice Department drew on a series of internal communications that offered a rare behind-the-scenes look at the industry.The Justice Department argued in a sweeping complaint filed Thursday that the 2010 merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster had harmed competition, hindered innovation and resulted in increased ticket prices and fees for consumers. He asked for the company to be dissolved.In response, Live Nation, which is also the world's largest concert promoter, said it was not a monopoly and denied it had unilateral power to raise prices. Contrary to the government's arguments about its great power, Live Nation says it now faces more competition than...

Diplomats aim to restart ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas by next week, according to three officials briefed on the process, rekindling hopes of an end to the fighting in Gaza even as Israel presses ahead with its campaign. There.According to officials, preliminary talks took place this weekend in Paris between David Barnea, director of Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence agency; William J. Burns, the director of the CIA; and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, a key mediator between Israel and Hamas. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.For months, Qatar, the United States and Egypt have tried to persuade Israel and Hamas to agree to a truce and prisoner exchange that could help end the ...

Countries around the world have failed to reach consensus on the terms of a treaty that would unite the world in a strategy against the inevitable next pandemic, overcoming the nationalist ethos that emerged during Covid-19.The deliberations, which were expected to form a central point of the weekly meeting of the World Health Assembly starting Monday in Geneva, aimed to correct inequalities in access to vaccines and treatments between richer and poorer nations that have become evident during the Covid pandemic. .While much of the urgency around Covid has disappeared since treaty negotiations began two years ago, public health experts are still keenly aware of the pandemic potential of emerging pathogens, familiar threats such as avian influenza and disease, and once eradicated diseases s...

Russia bombed a hardware superstore in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Saturday afternoon, killing at least six people and wounding at least 40 others, Ukrainian officials said. The attack was the latest in a prolonged bombing campaign against the city that has made life increasingly difficult and dangerous for civilians.Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, said 16 people were still missing, suggesting the death toll could rise. He added that another airstrike on Saturday in the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, wounded at least 14 people.“For the whole day, Kharkiv was under Russian terrorist attacks. The airstrike in the Kharkiv region has been ongoing for more than 12 hours,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on soc...

TikTok may add a new skill to its resume: the disco time machine.The social platform, normally populated by countless Gen Z dancers – mostly in short choreographed routines that have been practiced and perfected – has recently been infused with the energy of a surprising demographic: their Gen X parents.In the viral videos, adult children ask their parents to dance as they would have done to the 1984 sound bite “Smalltown Boy,” by British synth-pop band Bronski Beat. Most of the posts are tagged #momdancechallenge, #daddancechallenge or #80sdancechallenge and have amassed tens of millions of views.The reactions were perhaps unexpected, because instead of laughing, the videos are great, really great, and act as a portal to another time: when dance was more often improvised and spontaneous...

The Israeli army was carrying out the operation in Rafah on Saturday, according to three Israeli officials, a day after the world's top court appeared to order Israel to "immediately" cease its military campaign in the southern city of Gaza, amid a growing international outcry over the offensive.Officials did not say exactly in which part of the city his forces were striking and fighting. An official said the army continued to advance slowly, but warned that it was too early to conclude how Israel would respond to the court order because it takes time for a military ground operation to change course. The officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.Palestinian media reported that an Israeli attack killed one person in central Rafah and that t...

Slowly but steadily, Marlene Nathanson was recovering. She had a stroke in November 2022 at her home in Minneapolis and spent a week in the hospital; Later, when she arrived at St. Paul's Episcopal Homes for rehabilitation, she could not walk. The weakness of her right arm and hand made her unable to feed herself and her speech remained somewhat slurred.But after three weeks of physical, occupational and speech therapy, "she was making good progress," said her husband, Iric Nathanson. “Her therapists were very encouraging.” Mrs. Nathanson, then 85, had begun getting around using a walker. Her arm was getting stronger and her speech was almost back to normal.Then, one Wednesday afternoon, one of his therapists told the Nathansons that their Medicare Advantage plan had denied a req...