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Israel marked three years since the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, with a nationwide minute of silence and memorial events, including at the Nova music festival site near Re'im, where 378 people were killed. According to Israel's Ministry of Heritage, 1,145 people were killed in Israel that day, including 779 civilians and 366 military and security personnel, and 251 people were abducted; 168 returned alive. Israel's subsequent offensive in Gaza has killed more than 74,000 people, most of them civilians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, whose figures the UN considers reliable. A correspondent near Re'im described the memorial and said this was the first anniversary with no hostages remaining in Gaza, while a woman whose six family members were kidnapped said five returned and her aunt was killed. A Gaza correspondent said there was no public event in Gaza, where two-thirds of the population live in makeshift housing or tents and over 80% of buildings and infrastructure have been destroyed; a ceasefire has officially been in place for a year, but about 1,400 to 1,500 people have been killed and 18,000 injured since, with daily Israeli airstrikes and shortages of clean water, food and medicine. He said Palestinians were posting pictures of loved ones and asking Hamas why it carried out the attack, and that deep divisions remain.

Lawyers for Christa Pike, an American death row inmate who survived a botched execution attempt last week, said she had regained consciousness and could talk after receiving two lethal injections in Tennessee. Pike was convicted three decades ago of first-degree murder for her role in the torture and killing of a 19-year-old classmate. A Tennessee reporter said Pike remained in critical care in a Nashville hospital with critical injuries to her arms, where at least seven needles were used to try to find an IV line, and was still handcuffed to a hospital bed. The victim's mother called the situation a mess, said she had felt Pike would survive, and called on Tennessee authorities to keep Pike on death row, while a reporter said Pike's future depended on whether she had suffered brain damage and could understand proceedings. The French government appealed to protesting students to return to class after another day of nationwide action, with the Interior Ministry saying more than a quarter of a million people took part. Protests that began with secondary school students and now include parents, university students and trade unions have spread from poorer Paris suburbs to Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse, with demands over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and deteriorating school buildings. Police used tear gas and water cannon and made hundreds of arrests as clashes turned increasingly violent, and unions have called further protests.

Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint, known for North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, died at the age of 102. She was remembered for roles opposite Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Paul Newman, and for playing Superman's mother in her 80s; she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for On the Waterfront days before her first child was born and was described as the oldest surviving Oscar winner. In football, Lionel Messi brought his international career to a close, scoring a penalty in Argentina's 3-0 win over Benin in Buenos Aires after setting up two other goals; he said after the match that he did not want to leave the field.