The court handed a stiffer 10-year sentence Thursday to the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Ms. Pelicot while she was drugged and unconscious. Husamettin Dogan, a construction worker, had been sentenced to nine years in prison in the first drugging-and-rape trial last year that riveted France and turned Ms. Pelicot into a global icon against sexual violence. The appeals jury was composed of three judges as well as 9 ordinary citizens.

Thousands of displaced Palestinians streamed towards their abandoned homes on Friday after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect. A huge column of displaced Gazans filed north through the dust and rubble towards Gaza City, the enclave’s biggest urban area, which had been under attack just days ago in one of Israel’s biggest offensives of the war. Hamas is expected to release the 20 living Israeli hostages within 72 hours, after which Israel will release 250 Palestinians serving long terms in Israeli prisons, and 1,700 others detained in Gaza during the war.

Russian drones and missiles struck Ukrainian energy facilities, cutting power and water to homes and halting a key metro link across the Dnipro river. It’s the latest mass attack targeting the energy system as winter approaches. Electricity was interrupted in nine regions, and around 600,000 households were temporarily without power across the country.

Prosecutors accuse Ms. James of bank fraud and making false statements. President Donald Trump had demanded she be charged and alleges that she falsely claimed a home in Virginia as her second residence to obtain favorable loan terms. It was Ms. James who won a civil fraud case against Mr. Trump before he regained office. Both the James prosecution and that of former FBI Director James Comey are seen as retribution by Mr. Trump against perceived political enemies.