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The ruling was a major blow to the conservative government’s plan to have asylum claims heard in Albania instead of Italy.

A top deputy to the killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar vowed that his “banner will not fall” and that the group would hold to its cease-fire conditions.

Mr. Sinwar had also been hit in the arm during a firefight earlier with Israeli soldiers, according to the Israeli doctor who oversaw the autopsy. Hamas confirmed its leader’s death but said his “banner will not fall.”

Uncertainty surrounds the fate of the Hamas leader’s corpse as experts say Israel will likely try to avoid having his resting place become a shrine.

What does the killing of Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, mean for Israel and Gaza? Ronen Bergman, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine who is based in Tel Aviv, explains.

Assassinating Yahya Sinwar was Israel’s Osama bin Laden moment. But getting a cease-fire deal done in the last three months of the Biden presidency is a much bigger reach.

It’s the first impeachment under the country’s new Constitution, but some are now calling for a similar move against President William Ruto.

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, summoned Tehran’s envoy over reported comments by a senior Iranian official on a U.N. resolution deemed a precondition for a cease-fire.

Heavy rainfall and swollen rivers unleashed torrents of brackish water that cut off roads, swept away cars and swamped buildings.

The Supreme Court’s decision to not temporarily block an E.P.A. rule this week signals ‘rising influence’ of Justice Barrett, one analyst said.