Author: NY TIMES

Israel’s military launched new attacks on targets in Lebanon on Thursday, a day after its strikes in southern Lebanon killed at least 10 civilians, the most in months of cross-border fighting.The strikes — which came in response to a rocket attack from Lebanon on Wednesday that killed one Israeli soldier and wounded eight other people — amplified fears that months of cross-border clashes could escalate into a full-fledged war.On Thursday, Lebanon’s state media reported that 10 civilians had been killed in the Israeli strikes, including seven members of one family in the city of Nabatieh. Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, said…

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London’s public transportation system may soon become a bit easier to navigate.The train lines on London’s Overground, a rail system that largely serves people in neighborhoods outside of central London beyond the reach of the city’s Underground system, will be renamed.The lines on the map will also receive new colors, replacing a system that is currently marked entirely with orange lines on maps.While the Overground is technically a different system than the Underground, popularly known as the tube, the same payment method applies to both, and multiple stations connect the two systems.The new names are: Lioness, named after the English…

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Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce told his brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, that he “crossed the line” during a heated exchange with coach Andy Reid in the second quarter of Super Bowl XVIII “.Early in the Chiefs’ eventual Super Bowl victory, broadcast cameras captured Travis yelling and bumping into Reid after the Chiefs’ third drive ended with a fumble by running back Isiah Pacheco .”You crossed a line. I think we can all agree on that,” Jason said on the latest episode of his podcast, New Heights. “To be honest, the yelling in his face was a…

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This article contains spoilers for Episode 4 of “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.”As the latest episode of “Feud” begins, Babe Paley (Naomi Watts) is facing radiation treatment for cancer and the terrifying possibility of her death. But she does so in a full dress and heels. At the same time, Truman Capote (Tom Hollander), who is unraveling from heavy substance abuse, tours his friends around a rehab facility, with a long scarf over his shoulder and a newsboy cap.Throughout the series, whether it is a pair of carefully applied eyelashes or strands of pearls, the outfits of the protagonists are…

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Airbus said Thursday that it would ramp up deliveries this year of some of the world’s most sought-after airplanes, bolstering its position as the largest commercial aircraft maker and pulling further ahead of Boeing as its U.S. rival focuses on the fallout from a major safety crisis involving its 737 Max line of airliners.Airbus, the European aerospace giant, plans to deliver around 800 commercial aircraft this year, including the popular single-aisle A320neo, its main competitor to the 737 Max. It delivered 735 planes last year, more than it had originally targeted. This year’s push is intended to meet what Guillaume…

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Elon Musk, the chief executive and public face of Tesla, is constantly making news and broadcasting his opinions on his social media site, X. But the electric car company has another leader — one who maintains a much lower profile.For more than five years, Tesla’s board has been led by Robyn M. Denholm, a technology executive who rarely speaks in public outside her native Australia and posts barely anything on X.To some analysts and investors, Ms. Denholm is the “adult in the room” who has helped Mr. Musk turn Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker. But to her critics,…

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In a program note, Pichon says that in Schubert’s opera catalog, there is “no forgotten masterpiece to revive.” But while going through those works, he added, he came across moments of “almost spiritual meditation,” in which Schubert the composer of “the universal voice” emerges. From those, he and the director Silvia Costa assembled “L’Autre Voyage.”The show begins, though, not with opera but with song — projected text from “Gute Nacht,” the opening of “Winterreise” that gives way to the spare chords of the cycle’s ending, “Der Leiermann.” Hence the title: From the “winter journey” of Schubert comes this “other journey,”…

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For weeks, Mustafa Abutaha wandered the halls of one of Gaza’s few functioning hospitals and filled his days by volunteering to do whatever was needed — sweeping floors, baking bread, dressing injured patients, feeding dates or tomato sandwiches to those who couldn’t feed themselves. Anything to avoid thinking about his son, Muhammed.As the Israeli military targeted the southern city of Khan Younis in early December and fighting with Hamas intensified, his family’s home was struck while he was visiting a neighbor, Mr. Abutaha said. His brother was killed. Three of his five children were injured. And Muhammed, 18, was found…

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Greece was expected to legalize same-sex marriage and equal parental rights for same-sex couples on Thursday as lawmakers considered a bill that has divided Greek society and drawn vehement opposition from the country’s powerful Orthodox Church.Although Greece would be the 16th European Union country to allow same-sex marriage, it would be the first Orthodox Christian nation to pass such a law. The country extended civil partnerships to same-sex couples in 2015, but stopped short of extending equal parental rights at the time.Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had pledged to pass the new measures after his landslide re-election last year. He told…

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