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Paul Auster in Paris in 1993.
PAUL AUSTER

Paul Auster, a life in images

The writer died on Tuesday in New York at the age of 77 after a battle with lung cancer. His death comes a few months after publishing ‘Baumgartner,’ the novel in which he reviews five decades of writing and which constitutes his literary testament. He was internationally acclaimed for his literature and for his incursions into cinema, such as the film ‘Smoke,’ with Harvey Keitel in the leading role. Author of the acclaimed ‘The New York Trilogy’ and ‘4321,’ the charismatic writer and unofficial patron of his adopted neighborhood, Brooklyn, had received numerous awards during his lifetime, although the Nobel Prize always eluded him

The body of a worker of World Central Kitchen (WCK), who was killed along with foreign aid workers in an Israeli airstrike, according to the press office of the Hamas-led Gaza government.
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

Israel acknowledges deadly strike that killed seven aid workers from José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen in Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu called it a ‘tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people.’ The disaster relief group founded by the celebrity chef has paused its operations in an area where it was providing critical aid to a population on the brink of famine

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