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New York Times Apr 18, 2026

With spring comes the urge to spring-clean. It’s about so much more than just organizing your closet.

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Luca Guadagnino Wants a Difficult Opera to Break Free of Polemics

NYT Europe Apr 18, 2026

The Italian filmmaker hopes his staging of John Adams’s “The Death of Klinghoffer” will help audiences look past the controversies surrounding the work.

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Iran War Live Updates: Hopes for Peace Deal Rise After Iran Says Strait Is Open

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

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Thousands of Lebanese Try to Head Home After Israel-Lebanon Truce

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

Hezbollah politicians affirmed a “cautious commitment” to the 10-day cease-fire, which appeared to be holding on its first day. A truce could remove an obstacle in U.S.-Iran peace talks.

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‘I Just Want to Be Back’: Thousands Rush South in Lebanon Under Cease-Fire

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

Lebanese people who had been displaced by fighting expressed a mix of excitement and uncertainty about a pause in Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah.

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Rescuers Try to Save Timmy, a Whale Stranded Off Germany

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

A month of efforts to help a stranded humpback escape the Baltic Sea have culminated in a tourist and media spectacle, with no guarantee of success.

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New PEPFAR Data Show Worrying Declines in Testing and Treatment for H.I.V.

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

The numbers are the first to quantify the effect of the Trump administration’s shutdown and restarting of a program that has saved millions of lives worldwide.

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Trump Frames Iran War as All but Over in Optimistic Social Media Flurry

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

Iranian officials did not confirm most of Mr. Trump’s claims and disputed several of them.

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Amid Conflicting Messages From Trump and Iran, Hopes for Peace Deal Emerge

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

On a day when both Iran and the United States declared the Strait of Hormuz opened, hopes for an agreement rose. But statements from President Trump and Iranian leaders about negotiations were sometimes at odds.

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Strait of Hormuz Is Open During Cease-Fire in Lebanon, U.S. and Iran Say

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

Statements from President Trump and Iran aimed to raise confidence in the safety of the waterway, but shipping experts said risks remained.

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Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is open, but adds that it is still under Tehran’s supervision.

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

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Iran Resisted a Powerful Attacker. Taiwan Can, Too.

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

By holding off America’s more powerful military, Iran showed how Taiwan can deter or defeat China.

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An Explosion Rattles a Toronto Neighborhood. Was a Drake Video to Blame?

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

A blast on Thursday night turned out to be for a film shoot, but it unnerved residents who had lived through a propane plant explosion in 2008.

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Europe Wants to Help Restore Shipping in the Strait. It Just Isn’t Sure How.

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

Amid conflicting reports about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, European leaders gathered on Friday to coordinate a plan to guard it.

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The U.S. military blockade on ships entering or leaving Iran will continue until Trump ends it.

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

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Kanye West’s Concert in Poland Is Canceled Amid Furor Over Antisemitic Comments

NYT Europe Apr 17, 2026

The announcement came a day after a government official said, “In a country marked by the history of the Holocaust, we cannot pretend that this is just entertainment.”

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Carney Courts Investors to Reduce Canada’s Economic Dependence on U.S.

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney has set up a meeting and a new office to speed project approvals and make Canada more attractive to investors.

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Lutnick Says Canada Trade Deal Needs to Be Reworked Ahead of Talks

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s commerce secretary, derided Canada’s trade strategy and said a North American deal needed to be reworked.

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Starmer’s Credibility Just Took Another Body Blow Over the Mandelson Scandal

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

Prime Minister Keir Starmer appears to have been kept in the dark repeatedly over Peter Mandelson, the Jeffrey Epstein associate — fueling an image of weakness.

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Trump Is Urged to Act on Iranian Site Feared Impervious to Airstrikes

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

Little is known about Pickaxe Mountain, but some experts say it illustrates the impossibility of relying on force alone to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb.

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Mark Mobius, Pioneering Investor in Emerging Markets, Dies at 89

New York Times Apr 17, 2026

Gaining a reputation as the brilliant, risk-taking “Indiana Jones” of his field, he encouraged investors to take chances on Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

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