Israeli leaders meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken as ceasefire and hostage release talks take on added urgency amid fears of regional escalation. The Times’ Middle East correspondent unpacks the sticking points. Plus, a Times editor hears from some of the hundreds of Russian prisoners of war captured by Ukraine during the Kursk incursion.

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