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The Broomway in Essex is notoriously treacherous because of the quick-moving waters surrounding it. One delivery vehicle didn’t make it.

A son of the influential fashion editor Diana Vreeland, he had an upbringing well suited to his overt and covert duties during the Cold War.

Life and business are back along a road once defined by war damage. But even with improved security, Afghans are desperate for jobs and development.

Nicknamed “Tomba la Bomba,” the Italian skier was a global superstar before he drifted from the limelight. Decades later, the Winter Games have given him a new platform.

The talks in Geneva, Switzerland, were expected to focus on Ukrainian-held territory in the east that Russia wants to control as the price of peace. Kyiv has said that demand is a nonstarter.

He made several trips to South Africa, and to other African nations, as a peace broke and a representative of Black America.

The direct talks last week came as officials urgently try to find a breakthrough on the issue of Hamas’s weapons, fearing the cease-fire in Gaza could collapse.

She was just 9 weeks old when she was lowered to safety in a mail sack, surviving the worst maritime disaster in history.

She was a towering figure in Soviet literature who was once silenced in a Stalinist literary purge.

President Trump’s most trusted envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, are at the center of the Iran and Ukraine negotiations.