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Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, said there was “reason to believe” an American would be among the next Hamas captives freed in Gaza.

Dan Carter, the mayor of Oshawa, Ontario, was a homeless addict from his teens until he was 31. Now he’s helping people who face those issues in his adopted city.

Israel had warned Gazans not to move from the south to the north during the cessation of hostilities, feeding their fears of permanent displacement.

Years of economic quagmire created an upside-down economy in Argentina. Javier Milei, a far-right populist, won the presidency this week by promising to blow it all up.

Husbands and wives, parents and children, wonder when, or if, they will ever see each other again.

Yaël Braun-Pivet, a secular Jew, cherishes the French ideal of a national identity that subsumes ethnic division — and speaks out when her country falls short.

Many of the more than 200 people seized by Hamas when it raided Israel had serious medical conditions. Some were badly injured in the attack. Doctors say they need medical care urgently.

Worried about the risks of robot warfare, some countries want new legal constraints, but the U.S. and other major powers are resistant.

They called for the release of all civilians who are being illegally held captive, as well as a humanitarian truce that would lead to a cessation of hostilities.

The political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniya, said it was nearing a deal with Israel over the release of some of the hostages taken in the armed group’s Oct. 7 attacks.