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Lebanon endured one of its deadliest days of the war as Israeli strikes killed 182 people and wounded 890, according to an initial official toll, while Beirut came under its fiercest bombardment since fighting began between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel said Lebanon was not included in the Iran-US truce announced overnight. Live images broadcast by AFPTV showed thick plumes of smoke rising above Beirut, while AFP journalists reported scenes of panic in the streets and buildings collapsing onto residents without any prior…

At a glittering 2002 gala in Dublin’s Four Seasons Hotel, world leaders, Nobel laureates and cultural icons rubbed shoulders. Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger and Mikhail Gorbachev were in the room. Quincy Jones presented an award to Bono. Chuck Berry played. And Jeffrey Epstein slipped in—not to be honored, simply to be there. A quarter-century later, the “Epstein files” are forcing that world of proximity and prestige into a reckoning. Those Dublin snapshots capture the financier’s method: relentless, targeted networking…