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Winning the rights to host the major global event is a coup for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s efforts to remake the kingdom’s international image.

Leaders from around the world explained how they took their passions and concerns and turned them into action.

The group comprised women and children only, all of them taken from Nir Oz during Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7.

Marianna Budanova, whose husband is the director of military intelligence, is recovering in a hospital, the officials said. Her husband has long accused Russia of trying to kill him.

Life in besieged Gaza revolves around a daily struggle to find food and water. With practically no fuel or coal, families are burning doors and window frames to cook what they can scrounge.

American spy agencies have warned about the Emirati firm G42 and its work with large Chinese companies that U.S. officials consider security threats.

No Americans were released in the first day of the temporary cease-fire, but officials and families were hopeful they would be freed in the coming days.

The first group of 13 Israeli hostages — all women and children — were handed over to Israeli officials on Friday, joining five others released or rescued earlier in the fighting.

Officials in Qatar, which helped broker the deal, said 13 hostages were expected to be released on Friday. An Israeli official said Palestinians in Israel’s custody would be freed first.

Reports of overcrowding at pediatric hospitals in China have raised concerns about a jump in respiratory illnesses affecting children.