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TOP STORIES

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MIDEAST-WARS — A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah appeared to be holding, as residents in cars heaped with belongings streamed back toward southern Lebanon despite warnings from the Israeli and Lebanese military that they stay away. If it holds, the ceasefire would bring an end to nearly 14 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. While some Lebanese were celebrating the deal, some in Israel were concerned it didn’t go far enough. By Bassem Mroue, Kareem Chehayeb and Tia Goldenberg. SENT: 960 words, photos, videos, audio. With MIDEAST-WARS-THE-LATEST — Middle East latest: Displaced people return to south Lebanon as ceasefire appears to hold; MIDEAST WARS-BIDEN-TRUMP — Trump team says Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal brokered by Biden is actually Trump’s win; and ISRAEL LEBANON WAR-CEASEFIRE BOUNDARIES — Map.

MIDEAST WARS-WHAT TO KNOW — The truce that began in the pre-dawn hours raised hopes and renewed difficult questions in a region gripped by conflict. The U.S.- and France-brokered deal calls for an initial two-month halt to fighting and requires Hezbollah to end its armed presence in southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops are to return to their side of the border. But the deal does little directly to resolve the much deadlier war that has raged in Gaza since Hamas militants attacked southern Israel last October. By Adam Geller. SENT: 920 words, photos. With MIDEAST-WARS-RESOLUTION-1701-EXPLAINER — UN Resolution 1701 is at the heart of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal. What is it? — SENT.

TRUMP-TARIFFS — If Donald Trump makes good on his threat to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, the price increases that could follow will collide with his campaign promise to give American families a brcraeak from inflation. Economists and industry officials say companies would have little choice but to pass along the added costs, dramatically raising prices for food, clothing, automobiles, booze and other goods. By Tom Krisher and Christopher Rugaber. SENT: 1,280 words, photos, video, audio. With TRUMP-TARIFFS-EXPLAINER —Trump’s latest tariff plan aims at multiple countries. What does it mean for the U.S.?; CANADA-US-TRUMP-TARIFFS — Canadian officials blast Trump’s tariff threat and one calls Mexico comparison an insult; MEXICO-US-TRUMP — Mexico suggests it would impose its own tariffs to retaliate against any Trump tariffs; TARIFFS-BORDER-EXPLAINER — Trump vows tariffs over immigration. What the numbers say about border crossings, drugs and crime — SENT.

TRUMP-TRANSITION — President-elect Donald Trump signed a required agreement with President Joe Biden’s White House to allow his transition team to coordinate with the existing federal workforce ahead of taking office on Jan. 20. The overdue agreement was supposed to have been signed by Oct. 1, according to the Presidential Transition Act, and the Biden White House has issued appeals in both public and private for Trump’s team to sign on. By Zeke Miller. SENT: 890 words, photos, audio. With TRUMP-TRANSITION-NIH — Trump picks Jay Bhattacharya, who backed COVID herd immunity, to lead National Institutes of Health; and TRUMP-TRANSITION-ECONOMICS — Trump fills out his economic team with two veterans of his first administration — SENT.

EDUCATION-IMMIGRANT-STUDENTS — Regardless of whether President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to deport millions of immigrants, educators around the U.S. are bracing for upheaval. Even if he only talks about it, educators and legal observers say children of immigrants may avoid school out of fear. By Bianca Vázquez Toness. SENT: 800 words, photos.

ICC-MYANMAR — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has asked judges to issue an arrest warrant for the head of Myanmar’s military regime for crimes committed against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing took power from Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup in 2021 and is accused of crimes against humanity for the deportation and persecution of the Rohingya. He is accused of forcing nearly a million people into neighboring Bangladesh to escape what has been called an ethnic cleansing campaign involving mass rapes, killings and the torching of homes. By Molly Quell. SENT: 450 words, photos.

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MAINE TOWN-HATED RESIDENT -- Few people in America have done more to advance conservative causes than Leonard Leo. Years ago, the then-unknown conservative lawyer began executing a plan that has helped reshape the U.S. courts and Republican politics, an effort that culminated in Trump’s first term with the appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices. The success moved Leo out of the shadows, making him a hero to conservatives and a villain to liberals. But for his neighbors on a sparsely populated island off the coast of Maine, the equation is more complicated. By Dan Merica. SENT: 1,590 words, photos.

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TRIBAL RIGHTS-POWWOW-OREGON — The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in Oregon have just celebrated newly lifted restrictions on their rights to hunt, fish and gather. The celebration came as the tribe marked 47 years of regaining federal recognition. The tribe was among the dozens that lost federal recognition in the 1950s and ’60s under a policy of assimilation known as “termination.” By Claire Rush. SENT: 740 words, photos.

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MIDEAST WARS

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ISRAEL-LEBANON-BY-THE-NUMBERS — A ceasefire has taken effect between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah. More than 3,800 people have been killed in Lebanon, and more than 80 Israeli soldiers and 47 civilians. In addition, an estimated 1.2 million people in Lebanon and 46,000 people in Israel have been displaced. SENT: 180 words, photos. With ISRAEL LEBANON WAR-BY THE NUMBERS — Graphic.

LEBANON-ISRAEL-CEASEFIRE-PHOTO-GALLERY — AP PHOTOS: A look at more than a year of fighting as Israel and Hezbollah begin ceasefire. SENT: 33 photos, 470 words.

EMIRATES-ISRAEL-RABBI KILLED — Turkish security forces reportedly arrested the three Uzbek suspects in the killing of a rabbi in the United Arab Emirates as they left an airport in Istanbul, according to Turkish media reports. SENT: 480 words, photos.

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SOUTH-KOREA-UKRAINE — South Korea’s president has met a visiting Ukraine delegation and called for a joint response to the threat posed by North Korea’s recent dispatch of more than 10,000 soldiers to support Russia’s war against Ukraine. SENT: 320 words, photos.

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SOUTH-KOREA-SNOW — Worst November snowstorm in half century hits Seoul and grounds hundreds of airplane flights. SENT: 250 words, photos, video.

SEXUAL-MISCONDUCT-MARILYN-MANSON — Marilyn Manson drops lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood. SENT: 620 words, photos.

SEXUAL-MISCONDUCT-HARVEY-WEINSTEIN — Harvey Weinstein files legal claim alleging lack of medical care and hygiene at Rikers Island jail. SENT: 290 words, photo.

PLANE CRASH-DOG RESCUE — An animal-rescue pilot died in a crash. Two dogs aboard are recovering. SENT: 840 words, photos, video, audio.

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ELECTION 2024-PENNSYLVANIA -- The drubbing Democrats took in Pennsylvania in this year’s election has prompted predictable vows to rebound, but it has also sowed doubts about whether Pennsylvania might be leaving the ranks of up-for-grabs swing states for a right-leaning existence more like Ohio’s. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.

WEIGHT-LOSS-DRUGS-WHAT-TO-KNOW — Millions of obese Americans would get access to popular weekly injectables that would help them shed pounds quickly if a $35 billion proposal from the Biden administration is blessed by President-elect Donald Trump. SENT: 930 words, photo.

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NATIONAL

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TEACHER-STRIKES-MASSACHUSETTS — Two Massachusetts communities have reached deals with their striking teachers unions, ending the last of three teachers strikes in communities north of Boston. SENT: 450 words, photos.

CRANBERRY-HARVEST — Weeks before Thanksgiving, some of the cranberries that will be on dinner plates were floating on a bog in Massachusetts. The cranberries turned the pond in coastal Massachusetts a bright color of pinkish crimson. SENT: 430 words, photos.

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INTERNATIONAL

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PAKISTAN-LOCKDOWN — Authorities have reopened roads linking Pakistan’s capital with the rest of the country, ending a four-day lockdown, after using tear gas and firing into the air to disperse supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan who demanded his release from prison. SENT: 220 words, photos.

NAMIBIA-ELECTION — A woman who joined Namibia’s independence movement in the 1970s is a strong contender to become its first female leader as the country votes in a presidential election. SENT: 490 words, photos.

PHILIPPINES-MARCOS-DUTERTE — Philippine police officials have filed criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security staff for disobeying orders from authorities in a recent altercation in Congress. The criminal complaints filed by the Quezon City police were separate from legal action that may arise after she publicly threatened to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., his wife and the House of Representatives speaker assassinated if she were killed in an unspecified plot. SENT: 680 words, photos.

SRI-LANKA-SEVERE-WEATHER — Police in Sri Lanka say eight people, including six children who were returning from school, have gone missing when the farm tractor they were traveling on was swept away by floods triggered by heavy rains. SENT: 260 words, photos.

FRANCE-FAR-RIGHT-TRIAL — A high-stakes trial in France that could derail the presidential ambitions of far-right leader Marine Le Pen is wrapping up. She’s on trial for the alleged embezzlement of European Parliament funds. SENT: 660 words, photo.

IRELAND-ELECTION — Voters in Ireland go to the polls on Friday to elect a new parliament, and many are unhappy. A housing crisis and rising immigration are among the top concerns driving discontent with center-right governing parties Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. An anti-politician mood also is hitting left-of-center opposition party Sinn Fein, and some voters are looking at a large crop of independent candidates. SENT: 1,220 words, photos.

AUSTRALIA-SOCIAL-MEDIA — Australia’s House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from social media, leaving it to the Senate to finalize the world-first law. SENT: 540 words, photos, video, audio. With AUSTRALIA-SOCIAL-MEDIA-PARENTS — Australian father of teen sextortion victim backs banning young children from social media — SENT.

MEXICO-DRUG CARTEL FISHING — For years, U.S. authorities and fishermen have complained about illegal fishing for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico, and now it’s clear who is behind the lucrative trade: a Mexican drug cartel. The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against members of the Gulf drug cartel, saying the cartel used fishing boats to combine the businesses of drug and migrant smuggling; along the way, the boats caught tons of red snapper, a commercially valuable but vulnerable species. SENT: 590 words, photo.

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SPORTS

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FBC-CFP-PLAYOFF RANKINGS — The Southeastern Conference’s losses were almost everyone else’s gain in the College Football Playoff rankings, with SMU nudging its way into the top 12 and Indiana staying in the mix at No. 10 despite a lopsided loss of its own. SENT: 710 words, photos.

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Workers adjust floating booms while wet harvesting cranberries at Rocky Meadow Bog, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, in Middleborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

People pass by snow-covered a Christmas tree in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Visitors enjoy in snow at the Gyeongbok Palace, one of South Korea's well-known landmarks, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Tents occupied by displaced Palestinians are seen at the beach in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A man celebrates carrying a picture of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that went into effect on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

A man who is returning to his village waves as he carries his belongings on his car after the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel began early morning, in Tyre, south Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that began Wednesday appeared to be holding, as residents in cars heaped with belongings streamed back toward southern Lebanon despite warnings from the Israeli and Lebanese militaries that they stay away from certain areas.

If it holds, the ceasefire would bring an end to nearly 14 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, which escalated in mid-September into all-out war and threatened to pull Hezbollah's patron Iran and Israel into a broader conflagration. The deal does not address the war in Gaza.

It could give some reprieve to the 1.2 million Lebanese displaced by the fighting and the tens of thousands of Israelis who fled their homes along the border with Lebanon.

“They were a nasty and ugly 60 days,” said Mohammed Kaafarani, 59, who was displaced from the Lebanese village of Bidias. “We reached a point where there was no place to hide."

The U.S.- and France-brokered deal, approved by Israel late Tuesday, calls for an initial two-month halt to fighting and requires Hezbollah to end its armed presence in southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops are to return to their side of the border.

Thousands of additional Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers would deploy in the south, and an international panel headed by the United States would monitor compliance.

Israel says it reserves the right to strike Hezbollah should it violate the terms of the deal.

Israel is still fighting Hamas militants in Gaza in response to the group’s cross-border raid into southern Israel in October 2023. But President Joe Biden on Tuesday said his administration would make another push in the coming days to try to renew efforts for a deal in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave.

TEL AVIV, Israel — As a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah appears to hold in Lebanon, fighting raged on in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

The Gaza Health Ministry said 33 bodies had been brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll in the nearly 14-month-long war to 44,282. The Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count but says more than half of the dead are women and children.

The Israeli military said it struck dozens of Hamas sites in hard-hit northern Gaza, including weapons storage facilities and military structures. It said it warned civilians to evacuate the area beforehand. The military has battled for weeks a resurgence of Hamas in the area, which was an early target of Israel’s offensive.

The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire has no direct bearing on the conflict in Gaza, where international mediators have struggled to secure a truce.

On the highway linking Beirut with south Lebanon, hours after the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire took hold, thousands of people drove south with their belongings and mattresses tied on top of their cars. Traffic was gridlocked at the northern entrance of the port city of Sidon.

“This is a moment of victory, pride and honor for us, the Shiite sect, and for all of Lebanon,” said Hussein Sweidan, a resident returning to the port city of Tyre. He said he saw the ceasefire as a victory for Hezbollah.

Sporadic celebratory gunfire was heard at a main roundabout in the city, as people returning honked the horns of their cars and residents cheered.

Israel’s Arabic military spokesperson Avichay Adraee warned displaced Lebanese not to return to evacuated villages in southern Lebanon. Israeli troops were still present in parts of southern Lebanon after Israel launched a ground invasion in October. The Israeli military said forces opened fire to push back a number of vehicles that were entering a restricted area in southern Lebanon.

An Israeli security official said Israeli forces remain in their positions hours after the ceasefire began and will only gradually withdraw.

He said the pace of the withdrawal and the scheduled return of Lebanese civilians to their homes would depend on whether the deal is implemented and enforced by all sides. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the deal and its implementation with the media.

The Lebanese military asked displaced returning to southern Lebanon to avoid frontline villages and towns near the border where Israeli troops are still present until they withdraw.

Residents will return to vast destruction wrought by the Israeli military during its campaign, which flattened villages where the military said it found vast weapons caches and infrastructure it says was meant for Hezbollah to launch an Oct. 7-style attack on northern Israel.

More than 3,760 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon the past 13 months, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials.

Hezbollah emerges from the war battered and bloodied, with the reputation it built by fighting Israel to a stalemate in the 2006 war tarnished. Yet its fighters still managed to put up heavy resistance on the ground, slowing Israel’s advance while continuing to fire scores of rockets, missiles and drones across the border each day.

In Israel, the mood was far more subdued, with displaced Israelis concerned that the deal did not go far enough to rein in Hezbollah and that it did not address Gaza and the hostages still held there.

“I think it is still not safe to return to our homes because Hezbollah is still close to us,” said Eliyahu Maman, an Israeli displaced from the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, which is not far from the border with Lebanon and was hit hard by the months of fighting.

On Wednesday morning, Kiryat Shmona remained quiet on a cold, rainy day. A handful of people milled about, inspecting damage from earlier rocket attacks, including to the roof of a bus. The town’s shopping mall, which had been hit before, appeared to have new damage, and a rocket was seen stuck in the ground next to an apartment building.

The fighting killed more than 70 people in Israel, more than half civilians, as well as dozens of Israeli soldiers fighting in southern Lebanon.

A significant return of the displaced to their communities, many of which have suffered extensive damage from rocket fire, could take months.

But Israel can claim major victories in the war, including the killing of Hezbollah’s top leader Hassan Nasrallah and most of its senior commanders, as well as the destruction of extensive militant infrastructure. A complex attack involving exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, widely attributed to Israel, appeared to show a remarkable degree of penetration of the secretive militant group.

Chehayeb reported from Beirut. Goldenberg reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press journalists Alon Bernstein in Haifa, Israel, Leo Correa in Kiryat Shmona, Israel, and Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

Find more of AP’s war coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war

Rescuers use an excavator as they search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a building in Beirut, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

People take shelter in a metro station as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets from Lebanon in Haifa, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

People celebrate after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect in Sidon, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

People hug each other upon their arrival at their neighborhood as they celebrate a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, which began early morning, in Tyre, south Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

People in a car return back to their villages with their belongings after a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel began early morning, as they pass in front of a destroyed building that was hit in an Israeli airstrike, in Tyre, south Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

People sit in traffic as they return to their villages after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect in Ghazieh, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

A woman carries a picture of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as she returns to Dahiyeh, in Beirut, Lebanon, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Displaced families carry mattresses as they prepare to return to their villages after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect in Sidon, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)