The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war was holding even as complex issues remained ahead, a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza.

The military promises elections within two years, but President Rajoelina insists he is still in charge. 

​The military promises elections within two years, but President Rajoelina insists he is still in charge.  

President Trump announced a lethal strike off the coast of Venezuela, killing six individuals on a vessel affiliated with a “Designated Terrorist Organization” allegedly involved in narcotrafficking. The strike, ordered by the Secretary of War, occurred in international waters and marks the fifth fatal operation in the Caribbean under the administration’s policy of treating drug traffickers as unlawful combatants.