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Susan Shaw joins WBUR's All Things Considered to offer advice for family and friends processing grief.  

Steve Biondolillo, organizer of the National Baseball Poetry Festival, and Bill Littlefield, a former WBUR host who will read poetry at Polar Park in Worcester this weekend, say there's plenty poetic about the the national pastime. 

Gaza is reeling from the massive explosion that devastated Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital. We speak again to Palestinian Irishman Ibrahim Alagha, who is desperately trying to organise safe passage out of Gaza with his wife Hamida, and their three young children, after they travelled ov ...  Show more

Edan Alexander, an American taken hostage during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, returned to the United States this week and was given a big welcome by his hometown of Tenafly, New Jersey, on Thursday afternoon. Edan was serving in the Israeli Defense Forces when Hamas ...  Show more

La trêve entre Israël et le Hamas a déjà volé en éclats. Elle n'aura duré que deux mois. Lundi 17 mars, l'État hébreu a bombardé, de manière particulièrement intensive, la bande de Gaza. Le bilan est lourd: au moins 500 Palestiniens ont été tués selon la défense civile de Gaza, d ...  Show more

Forensic medical experts in Tel Aviv are trying to confirm the identities and cause of death of four Israeli hostages handed over by Hamas. It is the first time Hamas has returned captives dead since the ceasefire began last month,The bodies, taken by convoy from Gaza earlier, ar ...  Show more