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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not agree to a permanent cease-fire, and Hamas said that the continued fighting risked returning “the negotiating process to point zero.”

Far from producing clarity, the snap election called by President Emmanuel Macron of France has yielded a muddle that could take months to sort out.

No party got an absolute majority in the National Assembly. Here are some of the ways the country could escape political gridlock. None are easy.

Plus, President Biden’s crucial week.

Far from producing a “clarification,” President Emmanuel Macron’s snap election has yielded a muddle that could take months to sort out.

No party secured an absolute majority in legislative elections on Sunday, leaving France headed for gridlock or political instability.

A former State Department official, he resigned in protest in 1982 over Cuba policy, then spent decades trying to rebuild relations with the island nation.

Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, endured days of temperatures above 100 Fahrenheit, made worse by power cuts and high humidity.

It was a day of big surprises in France, with the left surging unexpectedly, the far right falling far short of expectations and the question of who will be the next prime minister still unclear.

Masoud Pezeshkian, a cardiac surgeon and relative moderate in the ruling establishment, defeated an ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator in a runoff.