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The United States, China and Malaysia had brokered a truce to end the fighting between Cambodia and Thailand in July, but that ceasefire was short-lived.

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

An agreement: Qatar said it had brokered a deal between Israel and Hamas to allow medicine to be delivered to Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2024

The U.N. had brokered the 2015 peace deal and played a role in maintaining calm.

From Reuters • Nov. 14, 2023

He said an operation by his forces had ended the siege, though some Sudanese suspect that foreign mediators had brokered an under-the-table agreement that saw the RSF allow him to leave.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2023

The parade ended at Darling Stadium, the namesake of the oyster magnate whose creative entrepreneurship had brokered the land deal with the federal government for the Langley laboratory a half century before.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly