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Palestinians returning to their homes in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, on Sunday.  Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

Trump aides backpedaled on his Gaza plan

President Trump’s surprise proposal that the U.S. take over Gaza, driving nearly two million Palestinians out, shocked even senior officials at his own White House. Amid global alarm, top administration officials sought yesterday to walk back elements of Trump’s plan.

Several advisers said they expected his “long-term ownership” idea to die away quietly as its infeasibility became clearer to the president. By afternoon, that already seemed to be happening, and Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, tried to soften Trump’s positions on the relocation of Palestinians and the use of U.S. troops.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested that Trump was proposing only to clear out and rebuild Gaza, not take it over. Steve Witkoff, the special envoy to the Middle East, told Republican senators behind closed doors that Trump “doesn’t want to put any U.S. troops on the ground, and he doesn’t want to spend any U.S. dollars at all” on Gaza, according to a senator.

Insiders said the administration had not made even basic efforts to examine whether the idea was plausible, and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel wasn’t told Trump would bring it up until just before their joint Tuesday news conference. Some experts said the plan was so outlandish that it had to be a negotiating tactic.

Reaction: Trump’s idea drew immediate opposition from the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally. But it delighted many hard-right Israelis and some pro-Israel Americans. Palestinians in Gaza expressed a mixture of condemnation and confusion.

Hurdles: Turning Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” as Trump put it, would be time-consuming and extraordinarily costly. Here are more of the significant obstacles his plan would face. (For one thing, it would violate international law, experts said.)

Preparing a mass burial in Goma, the city in eastern Congo seized by rebels. Guerchom Ndebo for The New York Times

Thousands died as rebels took Congolese city

The city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing “days of mass burials,” an official from the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the past week in fighting between a rebel group and Congolese armed forces, the U.N. estimated.

“That figure will likely go up,” Vivian van de Perre, the deputy head of the U.N. peacekeeping force, told my colleague Elian Peltier, who is on the ground. More than 700,000 people have been displaced.

Families and humanitarian workers have raced to bury the dead, whose bodies have been stored in overflowing morgues across the city of two million. For days, workers with mechanical diggers have been preparing long trenches for burials.

Context: M23, a rebel group that the U.N. says is funded by Rwanda, began its advance on Goma on Jan. 26 and fully captured the city in four days. Though most of the fighting has stopped, Goma’s fall has raised fears of a broader war among Congo, Rwanda and their respective allies.

Mourners yesterday at the site of the shooting in Orebro, Sweden. Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images

‘It was my school’

A diverse community in Orebro, Sweden, is mourning the loss of at least 11 people in a mass shooting at an adult education center on Tuesday. The university town of 160,000 has become home to immigrants from 165 countries in recent years. Here’s what we know.

First person: Shams Ulqamar Andesh, a migrant from Afghanistan, and his wife attended classes at the center. “These people who were killed here yesterday — they had dreams to become doctors, nurses, engineers, plumbers or something else,” he said, adding: “It was my school.”

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News From the U.S.

Sam Bush for The New York Times

British pubs offer community, dining and banter, and some even have a place for you to lay your head (besides the bar top).

A number of alehouses rent rooms. More social than an Airbnb and boasting historical British flair, many of these pubs are hundreds of years old. A stay often comes with a tale — and maybe even a ghost.

Lives lived: Valérie André, a French army copter pilot who was the first woman to fly rescue missions in a combat zone, died last month at 102.

How a crowd turns chaotic

Researchers may have found a way to predict when a large crowd could turn into a stampede.

Using overhead cameras, scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, discovered that the throngs of randomly moving people weren’t so random — each person in the crowd followed the same circular motions in sync. The team suggested that a model of the motions could be used to prevent people from getting crushed or trampled. Read more about the findings.

For more: If you’re nervous at large events but have to go anyway, here are some safety tips.

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