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Gaza War: Kushner Meets Hamas in Egypt to Push Peace Deal Netanyahu Already Rejected

ALAMEIN, Aug. 17 -- More than 1,250 Palestinians have been killed since a ceasefire began in October 2025. The bombs did not stop. On Saturday, Jared Kushner, the US president's son-in-law and person... Read More


Iran War: Tehran Puts $30,000 Bounty on US Troops as Persian Gulf Ceasefire Nears Collapse

TEHRAN, Aug. 17 -- An American soldier's life is worth $30,000 in Tehran. That is the price Iran's Army formally put on American troops Sunday, offering a bounty for the killing or capturing of any Un... Read More


Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir Calls for Killing '30 to 40' Palestinians in Gaza Every Night

JERUSALEM, Aug. 17 -- Israel's far-right national security minister escalated his public calls for mass killing in Gaza this week, stating on a podcast that Israeli forces should "kill 30 or 40" peopl... Read More


Japan Economy Grows Just 1.1% in Q2 2026, Missing Forecasts as Consumer Spending Retreats

TOKYO, Aug. 17 -- For a country that has spent two years watching food prices climb and energy bills thicken, Japanese households have quietly started to push back. The result arrived Friday in a numb... Read More


Stripe Acquires AI Gateway OpenRouter for $7 Billion, Betting the Future Runs Through AI

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 -- For three years, OpenRouter's value proposition was simple and, for developers, genuinely useful: stop betting on one AI model. The platform sat between developers and a chao... Read More


Trump Orders Pentagon to Curtail South Korea Military Drills, Calling Ulchi Freedom Shield 'Hostile'

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- The exercise was scheduled to begin Monday morning, with 18,000 South Korean soldiers and roughly 5,000 American troops preparing for eleven days of joint drills across the penin... Read More


Gold Rate Today, August 17, 2026: 22K at Rs.14,219 a Gram as MCX Reopens Rs.2,180 Higher

MUMBAI, Aug. 17 -- A household that walked out of a jewellery showroom on Friday without buying has quietly saved itself a few hundred rupees, and the shop that let them go has no way of knowing it ye... Read More


NYT Strands Hints and Answer Today - August 17, 2026 (#897)

NYT Strands today, Aug. 17 -- the spangram for puzzle #897 is BODYJOINTS, and the theme is "On a bender." There are seven theme words alongside it, which makes this one of the fullest boards of the mo... Read More


Iran War Deployment Crisis: Trump Says USS Abraham Lincoln Crew's Nine-Month Stretch Was 'Not Nearly Long Enough'

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- Karen Bramlett's grandson has been at sea for nearly nine months. He is aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier operating with the U.S. Fifth Fleet throu... Read More


Horoscope Today, 17 August 2026: The Moon Goes Void in Libra for 10 Hours, and Every Zodiac Sign Should Wait Before Signing

Horoscope Today, Aug. 17 -- 01 IST, the Moon in Libra completes a sextile to the Sun in Leo, and then it does nothing at all. No conjunction, no square, no trine, no opposition to any planet for the n... Read More