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Demonstrators lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of torpedoing efforts to secure a cease-fire in exchange for the hostages’ release. The country’s largest labor union said it would go on strike on Monday.

One of the victims, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was a dual Israeli American citizen.

The helicopter was flying tourists in Russia’s Kamchatka region. No survivors were expected among the 22 people on board, state news agencies said.

The prospect of a strong performance by the far-right Alternative for Germany party in two state elections is only one of the problems for Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Israelis lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of torpedoing efforts to secure a cease-fire in exchange for the hostages’ release. The country’s largest labor union said it would go on strike on Monday.

Ukraine gambled that its move into Russia would draw Moscow’s forces away from the town of Pokrovsk. It didn’t happen. And now resigned residents are evacuating daily.

The officers were shot and killed in what the Israeli police said was a terrorist attack. The incident followed a rise in Palestinian and Israeli violence, as Israel’s military raids Palestinian cities.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s plan for transforming the judiciary goes much further than other countries that allow some judges to be elected.

The United States condemned the episode near Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea and reaffirmed its defense treaty with Manila.

It’s so hot in Cairo that people like to go out all night. It might look like a party, but in reality, one shopkeeper said, “everybody is dead on the inside.”