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On the clear, blue-skied Saturday morning of Oct. 7, 2023, our loved ones and 245 others were brutally stolen from us by Hamas terrorists. Carmel was visiting her parents at Kibbutz Be’eri. Almog, Alexander, Eden, Hersh, and Ori had been celebrating peace and freedom at the Nova Music Festival. These six beautiful people were abducted into Gaza, several of them with critical injuries.

Thailand has become the first nation in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriages after King Maha Vajiralongkorn approved a law passed by the parliament three months ago. The royal endorsement for the same-sex law was announced in a gazette notification late on Tuesday, with a clause that the legislation takes effect 120 days from the date of publication.

Two years ago, Nahid Islam graduated from Dhaka University with a bachelor thesis that examined why no student movement in Bangladesh had ever managed to reach its goals. Little does it matter that he forgot what his conclusion was. The 26-year-old has now changed history. Islam was one of the most visible faces of a student movement which kickstarted countrywide mass protests in Bangladesh in recent months, resulting in the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, once considered to be among the most powerful women in the world. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “Hasina is a bloodsucker and a psychopath,” Islam told TIME with a calm voice from an opulent black leather chair in his wood-paneled office at the Ministry for Information Technology in Dhaka, on a Sunday afternoon in September. Not long ago, he was an information technology tutor, forced into hiding in order to avoid being arrested by the government.

“There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen,” Vladimir Lenin is famously quoted as saying. Over the past week, Israel has detonated thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies carried by Hezbollah members in a highly sophisticated attack that killed at least 39 people and wounded 3,000.

NEW YORK — President Joe Biden declared the U. S. must not retreat from the world, as he delivered his final address to the U. N. General Assembly on Tuesday as Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon edged toward all-out war and Israel’s bloody operation against Hamas in Gaza neared the one-year mark. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Biden used his wide-ranging address to speak to a need to end the Middle East conflict and the 17-month-old civil war in Sudan and to highlight U.

Thousands of people continued to flee South Lebanon after Israeli airstrikes hit 1,300 positions on Monday, killing at least 492 people. It was the deadliest day in Lebanon since the country’s 1975-1990 civil war. Israel and Hezbollah traded strikes again Tuesday. Israeli military officials said they carried out dozens of airstrikes against Hezbollah, while the militant group said it launched missiles overnight at eight sites in Israel, including an explosive factory 37 miles from the border. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The death toll has risen to 558 people in Lebanon since Monday, with an additional 1,835 wounded, according to Lebanon’s Health Minister Firass Abiad.