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Germany’s foreign minister is expected in the region today for truce talks.

From Quartz

Formal truce talks started three days before the rebellion broke out.

From Time

For now, the number of desperate people from El Salvador has slowed, but that’s in part a result of ceasefires among criminal gangs, truces that may not last.

From Time

The pandemic has destabilized a loose truce between the tech sector and the cities it sought as partners in testing these products.

From gang-imposed curfews in Brazil’s favelas to South Africa, where gangs have embraced a truce and cooperated in the distribution of humanitarian aid, they’ve been helping hands.

From Ozy

“First of all, you are saving lives, and that matters,” said a source who has worked with the De Mistura team on the truce plan.

The Barzeh truce sparked outrage from commentators aligned with the opposition, who viewed it as little more than capitulation.

Since 2007, Maulvi Nazir and the Pakistani military had kept to an unwritten truce.

As a result, the temporary truce negotiated by the ICRC is uneasy and, at best, only partial.

Overcome by their desire for a truce, accepted a tool of war as a symbol of peace.

But at ten o'clock in the evening a flag of truce arrived offering a capitulation.

Truce now, Gregory; and consider how we can best dispose ourselves here, till the morning.

Openly, Edward maintained due observance of the truce, and by the middle of September 1320, had taken steps towards a final peace.

He proclaimed the truce publicly before Seton 'and a great assembly of people.'

He presently confirmed the thirteen years' truce (February 15), and appointed envoys to treat for final peace (March 4).

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to truce, such as: accord, agreement, amnesty, armistice, cease-fire, and détente.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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