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Hamas monitored political activity, online posts, and apparently even love lives. Palestinians were stuck between an Israeli blockade and a repressive security force.

The unusual sight of aurora borealis was visible around the world.

About 130 children took part in a sleepover at Rome’s opera house, part of a campaign to make up for a lack of music education by making the theater and the art form more familiar and accessible.

With no resumption of deliveries in sight, officials fear the territory’s threadbare humanitarian relief effort could collapse altogether.

“Many people have woken up to the reality that this conflict cannot go on,” said a director of one Israeli peace-building group, referring to the decades of violence.

For the first time in over a decade, the regional government in Catalonia may be led by a party opposed to independence.

Heavy rain on the island of Sumatra caused torrents of rock and ash to flow down a volcano and into nearby towns. At least 17 people were still missing.

Concerns are growing that the body whose job is keeping sports free of illegal drugs is failing at that mission, leading Congress to question U.S. support.

The U.S. secretary of state warned that Israel’s victories over Hamas may not be “sustainable.”

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The firm Hybe has lost hundreds of millions of dollars in market value because of a feud with the creative force behind the band NewJeans.

With Ukrainian troops outnumbered, exhausted and now in retreat near Kharkiv, many Ukrainians wonder if the war has taken a significant turn for the worse.

Mr. Putin shifted Sergei Shoigu to run the security council, and nominated an economist to run the defense ministry.

The vehicle was carrying dozens of teachers and students when it sped out of control on a downhill road and crashed into several vehicles in a hilly resort area.

Hamas’s leader in Gaza is considered an architect of the Oct. 7 attacks that prompted Israel to retaliate. As mediators seek a cease-fire, a deal depends on Mr. Sinwar as well as his Israeli foes.

Also, fighting is raging in northern Gaza.

Israel is marking a solemn Memorial Day amid renewed fighting in Gaza City and Jabaliya that fits a familiar scenario: Israeli forces returning to an area where they had defeated Hamas earlier in the war.

The Israeli military has expanded its evacuation orders for Rafah, deepening fears that it was preparing a full-scale invasion of the city in southern Gaza.

Many say there is nowhere to go, and even the “humanitarian zone” recommended by Israel is neither safe nor equipped to handle all of them, the U.N. says.

In a cautious new paper, scientists tried to determine whether an interactive speech board might enrich the life of a parrot named Ellie.