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The Muslim holiday typically involves slaughtering an animal for food for loved ones and the needy, but many in Gaza are going hungry as Israel’s offensive continues.

Pro-Palestinian student activists at one Belgian university have borrowed from the U.S. playbook of encampments and slogans. The results, however, have been starkly different.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled he was surprised by the military saying it would pause daytime operations in an important aid corridor. Military officials emphasized that the Rafah offensive would continue.

Also, an emerging plan to resist Donald Trump and an Iran-Sweden prisoner swap.

A New York man was among several foreigners to have gone missing or been found dead in recent days as temperatures in Greece have soared.

Meeting in Switzerland, world leaders backed a joint statement urging more diplomacy, but were divided on how to engage Russia.

Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has made detaining foreigners and dual citizens a centerpiece of its foreign policy, trading them for money and people.

The pilgrims died as a result of exposure to extreme sun and heat, Jordan’s official news agency said, as hundreds of thousands poured into Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the Muslim holy trip.

At Saturday’s celebration in Rome, Pope Francis’ image was on cardboard cutouts adorned with flower necklaces. People came dressed as the pope, wore papal hats and said that there was never too much “gayness.”

The assailants had taken two guards hostage and were killed, the prison service said.