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Following the deadliest assault on Israel in half a century, the country is vowing to crush Hamas, and both sides are bracing for an escalating war.

Daniel Noboa, a center-right businessman whose family business includes a globally known banana brand, is facing an establishment leftist, Luisa González, in Sunday’s presidential election.

Exterminators in France are playing the role of therapist to an anxious post-pandemic population that they say is panicking over recent bedbug outbreaks.

The contradictions of Vladimir Putin’s war are changing the face of towns with military bases in Russia. Patriotism and pride are abundant, but so are sadness and death.

The deal includes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz in a wartime cabinet. Israeli warplanes struck Hamas targets in Gaza for a fifth day as more evidence emerged of the militant group’s atrocities.

The action against a Booker Prize winner was the latest in a growing crackdown on free expression by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Speaking from the White House, President Biden said 14 Americans had been killed during Hamas’s incursions into Israel and that some U.S. citizens were being held hostage.

“The next step is to move forward, go on the offense,” an Israeli general said, as the country called up more reservists in response to devastating attacks by Palestinian gunmen who killed more than 900 people.

Hamas fired new salvos of rockets across the Gaza border, targeting Tel Aviv’s airport and triggering sirens in the city of Ashkelon. Israel kept up airstrikes in Gaza and called up more reservists.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggested that Tehran was not behind the assault in Israel and warned of consequences from retaliatory strikes in Gaza.