Wednesday Briefing: Hamas Will Skip Upcoming Talks

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Wednesday Briefing: ****** Will Skip Upcoming Talks

****** won’t attend upcoming cease-***** talks

International mediators are heading to the Middle East for a high-stakes round of cease-***** negotiations scheduled for tomorrow. But ****** will not take part in the talks because its leaders do not think Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has been negotiating in good ******, an official for the group said.

“Netanyahu is not interested in reaching an agreement that ends the aggression completely,” said Ahmad Abdul Hadi, who accused Netanyahu of wanting to prolong and even expand the war. ******’s decision did not appear to bode well for a breakthrough, but it did not mean the group had completely left the bargaining table.

Netanyahu rejected accusations that he is stonewalling and has consistently blamed the deadlock on ******. He said ******* will send delegates to the talks anyway. But Netanyahu has been less flexible in recent discussions, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. In July, he privately added new, less flexible conditions to *******’s cease-***** demands than those put forth in May. His own negotiators ***** these stipulations created extra obstacles to a deal.

On the ground after Ukraine’s incursion

Our Kyiv bureau chief, Andrew Kramer, and photographer David Guttenfelder visited a border crossing point in the Kursk region of Russia, one of the areas that Ukrainian forces invaded last week. The offensive is now heading into a second week, a remarkable turn in the war.

The now-obliterated border post, despite a few sandbagged **** emplacements, had clearly been unprepared for the tank and artillery ********.

Ukrainian armored vehicles rumbled by and the flow of men and weaponry carried on, days after Russian officials declared that the ******* had been rebuffed. Read more about what the journalists saw.

Andrew also spoke to Ukrainians living in villages near the border with Russia and described “a sense of some payback.” He told The Headlines: “One Ukrainian woman who been evacuated from a border village was saying that it was time now for the Russians to feel what war is like.”

Context: Planned in secrecy, the incursion was a bold move to upend the war’s dynamics and put Moscow on the defensive. But the gambit could also leave Ukraine exposed.

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The presidential election is less than 90 days away. This is what we’re watching.

********* takes the stage in the U.S. election

Arizona voters will decide in November on a measure to establish a right to ********* in the state Constitution. The measure could strongly influence turnout in the battleground state, which is critical to the presidential election as well as control of the Senate.

Similar measures on ********* rights are already on the November ballot in six other states, but Nevada is the only other battleground state. Democrats are hoping the issue will give them an edge.

The young student protesters who led an uprising against Bangladesh’s leader, Sheikh Hasina, are now cabinet ministers and traffic cops. They were surprised by what they achieved, and now it’s up to them to try to protect the spaces that have fallen into their hands, restore order and chart the future of the nation.

Lives lived: Rachael Lillis, who voiced the characters of Misty and Jessie in the 1990s “Pokémon” anime television series, ***** at 55.

CONVERSATION STARTERS ARTS AND IDEAS Some readers swoon for a 481-year age difference

Disappointed by swipe culture and, perhaps, reality, some readers pine for the much older male characters (seriously, think ancient) of romantasy novels, a subgenre that combines fantasy and romance.

The novels have garnered a huge fan base, and many of the male love interests are vampires, faeries, gods or angels. They can be centuries old internally, but externally, they’re always young-presenting and, well, hot.

But among fans, there has been a recurring point of debate: Is it acceptable for a 19-year-old to date a 500-year-old? Some say it’s not only acceptable — it’s also aspirational.

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