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Syrians are voting indirectly, and President Ahmed al-Shara is appointing a third of the lawmakers. Still, some see this as a step forward after decades of dictatorship.

Today, we take a look at the president’s sports fandom and what it reveals about his worldview.

The appointment of Yuliia Svyrydenko, a business-oriented official, shows how Kyiv is trying to persuade the Trump administration that working with the country can be lucrative, even in wartime.

The Israeli leader thought he had a plan from the U.S. president that would have represented total victory over Hamas. Suddenly, it looks as though he might not get everything he wants.

Both sides have reacted positively to a United States proposal for a cease-fire, but many details remain to be ironed out, including whether Hamas will disarm.

Some victims of the Cebu earthquake in the Philippines lived in homes that were supposed to withstand natural disasters.

Along with optimism that President Trump can lock Israel and Hamas into a deal, many expressed anxiety about being disappointed once more.

Israel said it would cooperate with the White House to end the war, but much is still unclear about Hamas’s future and whether it will agree to disarm.

In a speech that lasted just minutes, the Israeli prime minister boasted that he had defied his critics to secure the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza.

The prime minister vowed to rid the Labour Party of antisemitism. But a competing political reality, activist anger over the war in Gaza, has complicated that effort.

The families of hostages have reacted with a mix of optimism and trepidation, urging the Israeli government to not squander the opportunity.

Newsletter readers shared their thoughts about the future of Canada’s postal service.

As bishop of London, Sarah Mullally placed herself in the middle of the church’s most charged issues. But experts predict that her years treating cancer patients could inform how she approaches her new role.

The drone strikes killed at least one person and injured dozens of others, officials said. The attack came amid rising alarm about the status of a nuclear plant relying solely on generators.

A writer, dissident, teacher and critic, he was deeply affected by an early experience of his life: incarceration as a boy in a concentration camp near Prague.

Antoni Lallican, a Paris-based photographer, is the first working journalist to be killed by a remotely piloted drone during the war, according to press associations.

A congregant in Manchester, England, described how fellow worshipers, including the rabbi, used their bodies to barricade the entrance as the assailant tried to force his way in.

The man who attacked people at the Heaton Park Congregation synagogue in northwestern England had been released on bail, a police official said.

The party of Andrej Babis, former leader of the Czech government, is expected to prevail in parliamentary elections that begin Friday.

Ms. Takaichi would be Japan’s first female prime minister in a country where women are drastically underrepresented at the highest levels of power.