Nearly four years into a grinding civil conflict, the economy is in ruins, and people — even professionals with degrees — are desperate.

The prefect of Mayotte said the death toll could climb. The storm, the equivalent of a Category 3, made landfall in Mozambique on Sunday.

Israel’s military said it carried out strikes and raids against Hamas targets in northern Gaza on Sunday. The actions followed days of deadly attacks across the territory.

A tsunami alert was lifted, but government websites were offline after the quake. The U.S. Embassy building was seriously damaged, officials said.

Germany’s political turmoil.

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Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister and finance minister, had been helping lead Canada’s response to the incoming Trump administration.

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Police leaders waited too long — three days — to trigger a national mobilization to tackle the anti-immigrant violence that broke out in Britain this year, a report found.

The general had faced sanctions for using chemical weapons in Ukraine.