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

Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged financial support for economic modernization and Ukraine, but will need backing for new borrowing to fill a spending gap.

After repeated mechanical setbacks, the operation turned to trained miners using manual tools to clear the final stretch of debris.

Relations have deteriorated markedly since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the Finns accuse Moscow of orchestrating a flow of migrants in retaliation for Finland joining NATO.

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.

The artifacts were on loan to a Dutch museum when Russia invaded in 2014. Ukraine argued that they must be kept out of the aggressor’s hands.

Effective drugs that have made the disease curable have yet to reach most of the region.

Plus Indonesia’s female forest rangers.

Qatar said the two sides had agreed to prolong their cease-fire for two more days. A long pause could slow the momentum of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

After repeated mechanical setbacks, the Indian operation turned to trained miners using manual tools to clear the final stretch of debris.