The Brief

Israelis marked the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack, which killed about 1,200 people and triggered a devastating war in Gaza that Palestinians are still grappling with. Memorial gatherings were held across the country.

The anniversary comes as Israelis confront reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly warned by regional allies ahead of the attack, reopening questions about the government's preparedness. Netanyahu has refused to take personal responsibility or order a state inquiry into the failures, and the anniversary has deepened divisions over his leadership ahead of Israel's first elections since the attack.

More than a quarter-million people, many of them teenagers, protested across France for a third consecutive week over school funding cuts that have left public schools with leaks, rats and not enough desks. Nearly 2,000 schools were closed.

Police clashed with demonstrators in Paris, Marseille and other cities, using tear gas and water cannons; officials said thousands were arrested, most of them teens, and condemned what they called "extreme violence." France has since halted police use of stun grenades after a teenage boy's hand was blown off during the protests, amid complaints that officers used disproportionate force against teenagers.

Yemen's Houthi rebels attacked Aden airport, with Yemeni officials saying a missile struck the runway minutes before a flight from Cairo was due to land, as fighting between the Houthis and Saudi-backed Yemeni forces has reignited. Saudi forces separately intercepted a missile near Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia says three foreign nationals — two women from Morocco and Algeria killed in Abha and a Sudanese national killed in Riyadh — have died in recent attacks on its airports. The Houthis deny that Iran's allied forces have lost ground in the renewed fighting, as the United Nations says more than 200,000 people have been displaced by the escalating fighting in Yemen, with three in four families in some areas facing hunger.

A Kenyan citizen who had been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo returned to Nairobi over the weekend and became the country's first confirmed Ebola case and first death from the disease, authorities said, as the fast-moving outbreak spreads beyond the DRC.

Ten people linked to the case have been quarantined amid growing concern over screening gaps, after the patient passed through multiple cities in the DRC, drove to Uganda and then flew on to Kenya. Kenya's government says it has intensified Ebola preparedness efforts amid the lapses.

Russia launched a "massive" overnight attack on Ukraine, firing some 130 drones along with 48 cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the "vile" large-scale assault, which killed at least 24 people nationwide.

An apartment building in Pryluky was destroyed, killing 19 people there, including five children, as families slept; rescue workers were still searching the rubble. The barrage is part of an intensifying Russian bombardment campaign that has increasingly disrupted Ukraine's rail network and other infrastructure.

A Russian laboratory worker died earlier this month of what officials described as "pneumonia of unknown origin," raising international concern that the death may have been caused by pneumonic plague. The World Health Organization has pressed Russia for more information, and President Trump says he plans to discuss the case directly with President Putin, with Russia saying it is open to such a call.

Russia on Thursday dismissed reports of a second suspected plague case as "false information," though a senior WHO official has questioned Moscow's account, asking what the woman died from if plague has been ruled out.