Even low-level government employees like elementary school teachers and nurses have been ordered to hand in their passports, to enforce “discipline.”

In a mass gathering that has been called the “Catholic Woodstock,” the church has embraced influencers on social media as a way to engage young people.

A “living skeleton, buried alive” in Gaza’s tunnels, was how the family of one hostage described him after seeing a video circulated by Hamas this week.

Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra of Thailand had already been suspended after a leaked phone call that many say showed her selling out her country.

Two were seized after Israel and the United States attacked Iranian targets in June, and two others have been held since 2024.

Mr. Huckabee, a Baptist minister, is the first evangelical to serve as American ambassador to Israel. Christian conservatives and the Netanyahu government are pleased.

President Trump said last week that he would punish India if it did not cut off Russian oil imports, but he did not specify what the penalty might be.

A photographer accompanied a Jordanian aircrew as it dropped aid to Gaza, where starvation is rising.

Steve Witkoff visited the enclave on Friday amid growing pressure on Israel to ease the hunger crisis. Hamas said the trip would be a “propaganda show.”