Good morning. We're covering the first evacuees from Gaza and the return of old fears for European Jews. |
Plus: Spreading joy from Brazil's Hurricane Truck of Happiness. |
 | | Foreign nationals and their families waited to cross into Egypt from southern Gaza yesterday. Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times |
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The first evacuees leave Gaza |
By last night, buses had ferried 361 foreign nationals over the border to Egypt, and ambulances had carried 45 severely injured Palestinians and some of their family members to Egyptian hospitals, an Egyptian state-owned television channel reported. The crossings came after a deal was negotiated among Israel, Egypt, the U.S., Qatar and Hamas that allowed certain categories of people to leave. |
Since the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, Israel has imposed a siege on Gaza, conducting a bombing campaign and, more recently, sending troops in. The Rafah crossing is the sole possible escape route for people trapped in the territory and the only entry point for relief supplies. |
The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinians, the most senior official allowed into Gaza since the war began, said his agency was running out of fuel, water, food and medicine and would "soon be unable to operate." The U.N. aid chief said a cease-fire was the only viable option for delivering sufficient aid. |
 | | A Berlin rally in solidarity with Israel on Oct. 22.Clemens Bilan/EPA, via Shutterstock |
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For Europe's Jews, old fears return |
The Oct. 7 massacre in Israel carried out by Hamas has awakened a repressed horror for Jews in Europe and beyond, now compounded by dismay at how the world's sympathy has rapidly shifted to the Palestinians being killed in Gaza under Israeli bombardment. From Britain to Italy, apartment buildings have been daubed with Stars of David, Jewish stores have received bomb threats and demonstrations have called for Israel's eradication. |
 | | Governments have scrambled to address the risks posed by the fast-evolving technology since last year's release of ChatGPT.Pool photo by Toby Melville |
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Leaders warn of 'catastrophic' potential harm from A.I. |
"There is potential for serious, even catastrophic, harm, either deliberate or unintentional, stemming from the most significant capabilities of these A.I. models," says the declaration, which was released yesterday. It does not set specific policy goals, but a second meeting is set to be held in six months in South Korea, and a third in France a year from now. |
 | | Nicole Tung for The New York Times |
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 | | Qilai Shen for The New York Times |
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 | | Victor Moriyama for The New York Times |
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In small cities across Brazil's countryside, acrobatic dancers dressed as children's characters ride around on neon big rigs to perform choreographed dances at stoplights and traffic slowdowns, sending the paying passengers on board into a frenzy. The concept is becoming a common — and beloved — sight in Brazil. |
Women's Ballon d'Or award: Controversially presented by Novak Djokovic. |
Pairing celebrities with audiobooks |
Audiobook memoirs are traditionally voiced by the authors. But for the narration of her best-selling memoir, "The Woman in Me," the pop star Britney Spears passed the baton to another star: the actress Michelle Williams. |
"I like to think of my job as kind of matchmaking," said Sara Jaffe, a producer at Penguin Random House. Her job is not finding the most famous Hollywood name to narrate a book, but rather casting someone who can help "connect the reader to the text." |
 | | Joe Lingeman for The New York Times |
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That's it for today's briefing. See you tomorrow. — Jonathan |
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