U.S. Pushes for Mideast Cease-Fire After Sinwar’s Death
WSJ What’s News
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🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:19.2 | Diplomatic pressure mounts to end the war in Gaza after Hamas leader Yaya |
| 0:23.9 | Sinwar's death. |
| 0:24.9 | Sinwar has been the guy calling the shots since October 7 attacks and so even just |
| 0:29.8 | figuring out who's really calling the shots now about a ceasefire is important for |
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| 0:44.9 | policy agenda. It's Friday, October 18th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street |
| 0:49.7 | Journal and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving |
| 0:55.2 | your world today. We begin with the diplomatic situation in the Middle East. President Biden is in |
| 1:07.5 | Germany today for meetings with European allies that were intended to be |
| 1:11.3 | about the war in Ukraine, but American diplomatic efforts |
| 1:14.9 | are now shifting to push for an end to fighting between Israel and Hamas, a day after |
| 1:20.0 | Israeli forces killed Hamas leader Yajya Sinwar in a potential inflection point in the more than year-long conflict. |
| 1:27.0 | And joining us now with the latest is Wall Street Journal Middle East correspondent Rory Jones. |
| 1:32.0 | Rory, you spoke to our colleagues on the PM show last night, but things have been moving quite a bit since then. |
| 1:36.8 | We've now heard from a number of world leaders following Synoir's death on the |
| 1:41.0 | tarmac last night in Germany, President Biden congratulated Israeli |
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