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They daydreamed about the people they would hug as soon as the truce took hold, the graves they would visit and the homes they would rebuild.

Banning the popular app is audacious. It’s also a sign that officials really believe the alternative is unacceptable.

But economic, political and technological changes have left Canada with few ways to handle trade restrictions now.

A countrywide alert warned of incoming ballistic missiles.

The president-elect’s vow to impose 25 percent duties on Canadian imports could ravage Canada’s auto industry and decimate Windsor, a city deeply tied to the U.S.

Hospitals and health officials have been preparing isolated areas where the hostages can begin recuperating, and there are concerns that the returning captives may be malnourished.

The full Israeli cabinet passed the agreement during a meeting that continued into the Jewish Sabbath, setting up the first reprieve in Gaza in over a year.

The Qatari prime minister, working with both President Biden’s envoy and President-elect Donald J. Trump’s representative, formed an unlikely partnership.

The central bank said it had decided to leave the network after the group’s work “increasingly broadened in scope.”

Chrystia Freeland, the former deputy prime minister, sought to distance herself from Mr. Trudeau in a public letter criticizing him for “costly political gimmicks.”