 Foreign nationals and their families waited to cross into Egypt from southern Gaza yesterday. Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times |
| The first evacuees leave Gaza |
| After weeks of waiting, hundreds of people were allowed to leave the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday, the first of thousands of foreigners, aid workers and critically wounded patients expected to depart in the coming days. |
| By last night, buses had ferried 361 foreign nationals over the border to Egypt, and ambulances had carried 45 severely injured Palestinians and some of their family members to Egyptian hospitals, an Egyptian state-owned television channel reported. The crossings came after a deal was negotiated among Israel, Egypt, the U.S., Qatar and Hamas that allowed certain categories of people to leave. |
| Since the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, Israel has imposed a siege on Gaza, conducting a bombing campaign and, more recently, sending troops in. The Rafah crossing is the sole possible escape route for people trapped in the territory and the only entry point for relief supplies. |
| The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinians, the most senior official allowed into Gaza since the war began, said his agency was running out of fuel, water, food and medicine and would “soon be unable to operate.” The U.N. aid chief said a cease-fire was the only viable option for delivering sufficient aid. |
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| Videos verified by The Times show that there was another Israeli airstrike in the crowded Jabaliya neighborhood of Gaza yesterday, about half a mile from the site of Tuesday’s strike. |
| Iranian officials are signaling that they do not want a full-scale regional war. |
| Bolivia cut diplomatic ties with Israel over the strikes in Gaza, and Chile and Colombia said they were recalling their ambassadors. |
 A Berlin rally in solidarity with Israel on Oct. 22.Clemens Bilan/EPA, via Shutterstock |
| For Europe’s Jews, old fears return |
| The Oct. 7 massacre in Israel carried out by Hamas has awakened a repressed horror for Jews in Europe and beyond, now compounded by dismay at how the world’s sympathy has rapidly shifted to the Palestinians being killed in Gaza under Israeli bombardment. From Britain to Italy, apartment buildings have been daubed with Stars of David, Jewish stores have received bomb threats and demonstrations have called for Israel’s eradication. |
| Perhaps not since the Holocaust have European Jews lived in an atmosphere of fear so acute that it feels like a fundamental shift in the terms of their existence. “There is a feeling of helplessness that has never been experienced before,” said an official with the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism. |
 Governments have scrambled to address the risks posed by the fast-evolving technology since last year’s release of ChatGPT.Pool photo by Toby Melville |
| Leaders warn of ‘catastrophic’ potential harm from A.I. |
| Representatives of 28 governments attending a British summit, including China and the U.S., signed a document called the Bletchley Declaration, in which they agreed to cooperate on evaluating the risks of artificial intelligence. |
| “There is potential for serious, even catastrophic, harm, either deliberate or unintentional, stemming from the most significant capabilities of these A.I. models,” says the declaration, which was released yesterday. It does not set specific policy goals, but a second meeting is set to be held in six months in South Korea, and a third in France a year from now. |
| THE LATEST NEWS Around the World |
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| Ukraine’s president expressed frustration over what he labeled unrealistic expectations for rapid battlefield successes in his country’s war against Russia.The U.S. Federal Reserve held interest rates steady for a second consecutive time.The United Arab Emirates drafted an intergovernmental declaration on the health effects of climate change. It doesn’t mention fossil fuels. |
| Other Big Stories |
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| Unemployment in China is filling up hostels and leaving migrant workers with no good options.Drought has left the Panama Canal without enough water, disrupting global trade.Germany’s Green Party was riding high when it entered the government two years ago. Now it is stumbling and has been blamed for driving voters to the far right. |
| What Else is Happening |
| Two men in their 30s were arrested in connection with the felling of Britain’s famous Sycamore Gap tree.The mummy of a young Inca girl who was sacrificed in a religious ritual more than 500 years ago in Peru now has a face.A new study suggests that a “big whack” created the moon and left evidence behind, embedded in the Earth’s mantle. |
| A Morning Read |
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| In small cities across Brazil’s countryside, acrobatic dancers dressed as children’s characters ride around on neon big rigs to perform choreographed dances at stoplights and traffic slowdowns, sending the paying passengers on board into a frenzy. The concept is becoming a common — and beloved — sight in Brazil. |
| Climb aboard Brazil’s Hurricane Truck of Happiness and see what it’s like. |
| SPORTS NEWS |
| World Cup 2034: What does Saudi Arabia’s hosting mean for soccer? |
| The Lyon team bus attack: A player’s account of the incident from on board. |
| Women’s Ballon d’Or award: Controversially presented by Novak Djokovic. |
| ARTS AND IDEAS |
| Pairing celebrities with audiobooks |
| Audiobook memoirs are traditionally voiced by the authors. But for the narration of her best-selling memoir, “The Woman in Me,” the pop star Britney Spears passed the baton to another star: the actress Michelle Williams. |
| Snippets of Williams’s narration have proved explosively popular online. But what goes into selecting a celebrity reader for an audiobook? |
| “I like to think of my job as kind of matchmaking,” said Sara Jaffe, a producer at Penguin Random House. Her job is not finding the most famous Hollywood name to narrate a book, but rather casting someone who can help “connect the reader to the text.” |
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