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The Palestinian Authority wants to prove it can handle security in Gaza, even if it means working in parallel with a destructive Israeli campaign that has displaced tens of thousands.

The founder of the P.K.K., a guerrilla organization that has been fighting an insurgency against Turkey for decades, has called for his group to disarm and disband.

A new cryptocurrency called $Libra bilked investors out of $250 million. It had been promoted by President Javier Milei.

President Trump will meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Friday after falsely asserting that Ukraine started the war with Russia and calling him a “dictator without elections.”

The Assad dictatorship is out, but Syria’s economy is in chaos after a civil war and recent policy shifts. The situation is putting a damper on a typically festive season.

A series of hostage-for-prisoner swaps agreed under the first phase of the cease-fire is complete, and no one knows how long the uneasy calm will last.

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the guerrilla Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of fighting the Turkish state.

A China-led crackdown on online fraud rescued thousands from Myanmar this month. But this massive business of grift keeps growing.

The announcement was a victory for mainstream political parties, after earlier talks involving the hard-right Freedom Party broke down.

Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a liberated country, while warily eyeing the new government.