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The Israeli military’s chief spokesman said its forces had fully encircled Gaza City. Media reports that emerged despite the blackout indicated that intense strikes were underway.

Storm Ciarán, which has battered Western Europe this week, proved too much for a quirky Dutch cycling competition.

Dozens of farm workers from Thailand were kidnapped or killed in the raids on Israel, and relatives want answers. “We have nothing to do with their war,” one said.

The U.S. secretary of state made two unannounced visits on Sunday, the first to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the second to Baghdad.

The U.S. secretary of state made the unannounced visits during a trip through the Middle East as he tries to contain the fallout from Israel’s war against Hamas.

The director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said it was “very concerned” about the outage and reports of heavy bombardment.

Dozens of migrant farm workers were seized or killed in the Oct. 7 raids on Israel, and their relatives are pleading for answers: “We have nothing to do with their war.”

The Himalayan country is far behind in enforcing construction codes despite sitting on the fault lines of two major tectonic plates, experts say.

Israel wants 24,000 assault rifles. Itamar Ben-Gvir, a far-right minister overseeing the police, has given rifles to civilians and is forming “security squads.”

William J. Burns’s visit comes as the United States tries to prod Israel to pursue a more targeted approach to attacking Hamas, allow pauses in the fighting and do more to avoid civilian casualties.