Reaching a climate deal.

After a campaign notable for the amiable tone from both sides, Yamandú Orsi was named the winner.

Many nations hope to reduce the half a billion tons of plastic made each year. But pushback from plastic and oil producers, and Donald Trump’s election, could scuttle an agreement.

The South African government said that nearly 900 people, many children, had fallen sick since September.

The Red Cross said emergency crews had found the sole survivor and were trying to rescue her.

Talks on a truce between Israel and Lebanon.

A fumbled meeting with a voter may dent Simon Harris’s popularity. But his coalition government’s main opposition, the nationalist party Sinn Fein, will likely remain locked out of power.

For Volodymyr Nikulin, being a wartime police officer means aiding evacuees, surviving a shrapnel wound and tackling looters. It also means quickly switching cities when one falls to the invaders.

The truce is intended to stop more than a year of fighting between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

A cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah.