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Israel and Hamas agree on a four-day ceasefire in Gaza, Sam Altman returns as OpenAI's CEO after his tumultuous ouster, and Dutch voters cast their ballots in a nail-biting election.

Plus, we take a look at air pollution in India during the Cricket World Cup.

By Edson Caldas

Today's Top News

Protesters hold signs demanding the liberation of hostages who are being held in the Gaza. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

ISRAEL AND HAMAS AT WAR

Israel's government and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza for four days, to allow in aid and release at least 50 hostages captured by militants in exchange for at least 150 Palestinians jailed in Israel. The first truce in a brutal near seven-week-old war was hailed around the world.
Shortly after Hamas militants took hostages during their assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7, the government of Qatar contacted the White House with a request: Form a small team of advisers to help work to get the captives freed. This is what we know about the secret negotiations that led to the hostages deal.

ELECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD

Dutch voters are casting their ballots in an election that will bring the Netherlands its first new prime minister in over a decade, and determine how conservative the country's new cabinet may be. We have an explainer on the key issues and who is running to replace Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Taiwan cannot afford chaos when it comes to being president, the front-runner to be the island's next leader as the opposition remained mired in a bitter dispute. The Jan. 13 election will shape Chinese-claimed Taiwan's relations with Beijing at a time China has stepped up military pressure to assert its sovereignty claims.

IN OTHER NEWS

South Korea suspended part of a 2018 military agreement with North Korea after it launched a spy satellite. The suspension of a clause in the agreement will see South Korea step up military surveillance along the heavily fortified border with the North. Here's why the country's satellite launches are controversial.
Rescuers hope to drill through the last third of the debris blocking a collapsed tunnel in the Indian Himalayas by early tomorrow to reach 41 workers trapped for ten days, so long as there are no new hurdles. The men have been stuck in the 4.5-km (3-mile) tunnel in Uttarakhand state since it caved in early on Nov. 12.

Business & Markets

Sam Altman at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit last week. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has reached an agreement for Sam Altman to return as CEO days after his ouster. Correspondent Jeffrey Dastin tells the Reuters World News podcast that the episode has highlighted disagreements within the tech sector about how fast we should be moving on artificial intelligence.
Binance chief Changpeng Zhao stepped down and pleaded guilty to breaking US anti-money laundering laws as part of a $4.3 billion settlement resolving a years-long probe into the crypto exchange. The mega-fine is at least in character for an industry known for going big, writes Breakingviews columnist Anita Ramaswamy.
British finance minister Jeremy Hunt will announce tax cuts for businesses later today - and possibly some for voters too. He plans to use his Autumn Statement budget update speech to parliament to shift the government's focus to fixing the long-running weak growth problem of the world's sixth-biggest economy.
Sony must face a mass lawsuit worth up to 6.3 billion pounds ($7.9 billion) over claims the PlayStation maker abused its dominant position leading to unfair prices for customers, a London tribunal ruled. For more on the latest news in tech, sign up to Technology Roundup newsletter.
Nvidia said it expects a steep drop in fourth-quarter sales in China - a key revenue generator - in the wake of new US rules, but forecast overall revenue above Wall Street targets as supply-chain issues ease. Nvidia stock, which has climbed more than 240% this year, slipped 1.5% in volatile after-hours trading.
Ahead of COP28, economists are updating estimates of the impact of global warming on the world economy, sometimes calculating down to a decimal place the hit to output in decades to come. Critics say those numbers are the product of economic models that are not fit to capture the full extent of climate damage.

Graphics: Hazy arena

General view of smog inside Arun Jaitley stadium in Delhi during Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka Cricket World Cup match. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

When the Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan cricket teams gathered in New Delhi on Nov. 6 for an eight-hour-long World Cup match, they faced a common opponent: dangerously harmful air. Other venues across India that hosted the matches this season did not greet the players with clean air either.

Half of this year's matches played in "unhealthy" air.

And Finally...

One of five mummies that according to archaeologists belong to the pre-Inca Ychsma culture that inhabited the central coast of Peru. REUTERS/Anthony Marina

Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed four mummies of children believed to be at least 1,000 years old from what was once a sacred ceremonial space. Researchers believe they come from the Ychsma culture that developed on Peru's central coast before the Inca Empire rose to span swathes of the Andean region.

Read more: Archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old mummies of children

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