President-elect Donald J. Trump has threatened to take unspecified action unless the hostages held in Gaza are released before he takes office in January.
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President Yoon Suk Yeol made the extraordinary announcement after months of deadlock with his political opposition. A general said public rallies were banned and news outlets were under “martial law command.”
Yale researchers traced hundreds of children taken to Russia in the war, finding what they described as “a higher level of crime than first understood.”
Years of war and a powerful earthquake had led to crushing poverty, displacement and breakdowns in services. But over the last several days, the region’s misery deepened.
A vote by Parliament could force the prime minister to resign, leaving his budget legislation in limbo.
The Canadian government is threatening to use emergency measures to protect three caribou herds at risk of dying out in Quebec.
The move comes a day after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced American technology to China.
An initiative by officials at the monument in a partnership with Airbnb has prompted an outcry among those who feel it will demean a cultural treasure.
He had been hailed by Chinese state media as a model for his efforts to promote Beijing’s interests in the United States. He was in fact an F.B.I. informant.
Some violations of the truce, and some amount of violence, are to be expected, analysts say, and do not necessarily mean the deal will collapse and war will resume anytime soon.