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The trip by President William Ruto of Kenya came against a bleak backdrop in Haiti, where gangs operate with impunity and the Kenyan officers remain largely out of sight.

At least 129 people died when inmates tried to escape from Makala Prison, where conditions are abysmal and overcrowding is a major problem.

The senior Hezbollah leader trained the group’s elite fighting unit and led its support for Hamas after the Oct. 7 attacks, the Lebanese militia said.

Young practitioners are helping make stained glass, which fell out of fashion over two decades ago, a vibrant art form in Australia once again.

The latest uptick stoked fear of a broader war in the region. Hezbollah’s response came after a week in which Israel carried out a series of audacious attacks, killing some of the group’s top commanders.

The Fête de l’Humanité, a blend of Burning Man, Woodstock and a political convention, attracts the masses with bands, lectures and food, but here K.F.C. is C.F.K.: Communist Fried Kitchen.

The far right and far left are poised to make significant gains in state voting on Sunday, possibly affecting the stability of the national government in Berlin.

The events of this week seem to indicate that Israel’s leaders have decided they can no longer live with the threat of Hezbollah on their northern border, analysts say.

With the death toll rising and rescuers still searching for people beneath the rubble, families were keeping a desperate watch over the site of an Israeli strike in Lebanon.

The death of a Hezbollah leader wanted for his role in the 1983 attacks drew a range of reactions from survivors and victims’ families but brought little resolution.

The United Arab Emirates is expanding a covert campaign to back a winner in Sudan’s civil war. Waving the banner of the Red Crescent, it is also smuggling weapons and deploying drones.

Exploding wireless devices maimed thousands. An Israeli airstrike on Friday flattened two buildings. Many doctors, exhausted, wonder how the country will cope if violence continues.

The government still faces two challenges in the coming weeks: the risk of a no-confidence vote and a tight budget deadline.

Gaza’s ministry of health said most of those killed in the strike on the Zeitoun School in Gaza City were women and children.

Pvt. Travis King on Friday pleaded guilty before a military judge to desertion, among other charges, after he made an unauthorized crossing into North Korea in 2023.

Nigel Farage, a Trump ally and Brexit champion, thinks Reform U.K. can become a major political force. At a conference on Friday, he sought to explain how.

The Israeli military considers the force a major threat to its northern border and has portrayed Aqeel, whom it claimed to have killed on Friday, as its de facto commander.

The repatriation, the second of its kind by the Dutch, shows a working model for returning looted treasures from Europe to former colonies around the world.

The European Union has vowed to enhance its military capability. But money is scarce, responsibilities overlap and the new job is less about soldiers than arms manufacturers.

Despite possible evidence of hundreds of graves at former schools for Indigenous children, challenges in making a clear conclusion have given rise to skeptics.