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The U.N. said that Israeli forces had held staff members at gunpoint for several hours. The Israeli military said that it had intelligence suggesting there were “Palestinian suspects” with the convoy.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old from the Seattle area, was shot and killed, when Israeli forces opened fire during a protest she was attending in a village in the West Bank, witnesses and Palestinian officials said.

The increased Palestinian attacks, coupled with the expansion of Israeli military raids and increased settler violence, have created a spiral of violence that analysts say is set to worsen.

Mr. Nygard was convicted in Toronto of sexually assaulting four women in his company’s headquarters. He also faces trials in Montreal, Winnipeg and New York.

“Portrait of a Girl,” a 17th-century work believed to be by the Dutch master, had been hiding in a home in Maine.

For many trans women living on the fringes of the nation’s society, the Catholic Church is a haven, and Pope Francis a personal hero.

For more than 30 years, the case had remained unsolved. While questions remain, the police said they had linked a 52-year-old Missouri man to DNA at the crime scene.

Speaking in Jakarta, the pontiff said “mutual respect” was the key to harmony in the majority-Muslim country, where a pluralist tradition has been put to the test by extremist groups.

Repeated air-raid alerts have punctuated the search through the rubble in Poltava, in eastern Ukraine, after an attack that killed more than 50 people.

Ukrainian officials expressed outrage over the Russian leader’s visit, warning they would seek to “ensure that this has consequences” for Mongolia.