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Yaël Braun-Pivet, a secular Jew, cherishes the French ideal of a national identity that subsumes ethnic division — and speaks out when her country falls short.

Families don’t yet know if their loved ones will be returned when the planned cease-fire takes effect.

The Battle of Tarawa, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, took a heavy toll on American forces and led to outrage at home.

A consummate man behind the scenes, he held top posts under Carter and Clinton, and in between ran the Council on Foreign Relations.

After more than six weeks of war, the two sides said they had agreed to a four-day cease-fire to allow for the release of 50 of the hostages Hamas captured on Oct. 7.

Mosab Abu Toha was detained by Israeli troops as his family was evacuating to southern Gaza. A number of other Palestinians detained under similar circumstances remain in custody.

Javier Milei has said that society is better without government. Now he is about to run Argentina’s.

The airstrikes followed an earlier exchange in which a U.S. gunship spotted and fired on militants after they launched missiles at Al Asad Air Base.

The agreement calls for a pause in the fighting and for Hamas to free 50 of the captives it seized in its Oct. 7 raid on Israel. Hamas said Israel would release 150 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.

Unusually, a protest vote may be coalescing around a centrist, Pieter Omtzigt, as the Dutch vote in national elections on Wednesday.