JERUSALEM — Israel’s military says its forces will remain in five strategic locations in southern Lebanon after Tuesday’s deadline for their withdrawal under a ceasefire with the Hezbollah militant group, as Lebanon’s government expressed frustration over another delay.

Military spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said the five locations in Lebanon provide vantage points or are across from communities in northern Israel, where about 60,000 Israelis are still displaced. He said the “temporary measure” was approved by the U.S.-led body monitoring the truce, which earlier was extended by three weeks.

Under the agreement, Israeli forces should withdraw from a buffer zone in southern Lebanon to be patrolled by the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers. The ceasefire has held since taking effect in November.

Israel is committed to a withdrawal in “the right way, in a gradual way and in a way that the security of our civilians is kept,” Shoshani told reporters.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told reporters the ceasefire “must be respected,” saying “the Israeli enemy cannot be trusted” and Lebanese officials were working diplomatically for the withdrawal. Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem said Sunday that “there can be no excuses” for any delay past Tuesday.

Hezbollah began firing rockets, drones and missiles into Israel the day after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of Gaza ignited the war there. The Israel-Hezbollah conflict boiled over into all-out war in September as Israel carried out massive waves of airstrikes and killed most of the group’s senior leaders.

Earlier Monday, Israel’s military said one of its drones killed Muhammad Shaheen, head of Hamas’ operations in Lebanon. The strike in the port city of Sidon was the deepest inside Lebanese territory since the ceasefire took effect.

“Now the fear has come back to people,” said Ahmed Sleim, a Sidon resident worried that the war is returning.

Trump protested on Presidents Day: Protesters against President Donald Trump and his policies braved frigid temperatures to demonstrate Monday at rallies corresponding with the Presidents Day holiday.

Dubbed “No Kings on Presidents Day” by the 50501 Movement, the latest protests came less than two weeks after a similar nationwide event Feb. 5 drew participants in dozens of cities. Both protests denounced Trump and billionaire adviser Elon Musk, the leader of Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, an outside-government organization designed to slash federal spending.

Nearly 1,000 people marched in the snow, with wind chills in the teens, from the Statehouse in Boston to City Hall, chanting “Elon Musk has got to go” and “No kings on Presidents Day!”

“I thought it was important to be here on Presidents Day to demonstrate for what America stands for,” said Emily Manning, 55, a Boston engineer who came to the rally with her two teen sons. “American values are not the values of the plutocracy or the limited few rich people.”

Organizers of Monday’s protests, which were focused on state capitals and major cities including Washington; Orlando, Florida; and Seattle, said they were targeting “anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration.”

One sign at the rally that attracted hundreds in the nation’s capital said “Deport Musk Dethrone Trump.”

China upset by edit: China’s Foreign Ministry took issue Monday with a revised U.S. government fact sheet that removed a line on American opposition to independence for Taiwan.

The United States has “gravely backpedaled” on its position on Taiwan and sent the wrong message to “separatist forces” on the island, ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said.

The State Department removed the phrase “we do not support Taiwan independence” from the fact sheet last week.

Taiwan’s government welcomed the move.

It’s not the first time the State Department has removed the phrase. It did so in May 2022 but restored it a few weeks later after a strong protest from China.

It’s unclear why the State Department changed the language again and whether it signals any shift in policy under President Donald Trump, who returned to the White House last month.

The U.S. does not recognize Taiwan as a country but is its strongest backer and biggest arms supplier.

China, which says Taiwan must come under its control, has stepped up military exercises in recent years around the island of 23 million people. The U.S. fact sheet says it expects “differences to be resolved by peaceful means.”

Polar vortex hits: Harsh cold descend on the nation’s midsection Monday as a polar vortex gripped the Rockies and Northern Plains on the heels of weekend storms that pummeled the eastern U.S. with floods, killing at least 13 people.

The National Weather Service warned of “life-threatening cold” as wind chills dropped to minus 60 Fahrenheit in parts of North Dakota on Monday and minus 50 in parts of Montana. Tuesday morning was forecast to be even colder. Extreme cold warnings were issued for an 11-state swath of the U.S. stretching from the Canada border to central Texas.

Congo fighting: Rwanda- backed rebels tightened their grip Monday on Bukavu, a day after seizing the second major city in eastern Congo whose citizens seemed resigned to life under the new rulers.

On Sunday, M23 rebels captured the city of 1.3 million people after it was abandoned by Congolese forces. Bukavu is 63 miles south of Goma, which rebels captured in late January.

M23 is the most prominent of more than 100 armed groups vying for control of eastern Congo’s trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that’s critical for much of the world’s technology. Decades of fighting have displaced more than 6 million people in the region, creating the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.

Bukavu’s border crossing to Rwanda was closed Monday morning, as were most shops and stores as some traffic picked up again.

Judge set in Milei crypto crash: A judge in Argentina was selected Monday to investigate allegations of fraud against President Javier Milei for his promotion of a cryptocurrency whose value collapsed hours after its launch last week.

Milei and his office denied involvement with creators of the $LIBRA cryptocurrency, saying he drew attention to it Friday as an entrepreneurial project that might benefit Argentina but learned more about it later and then withdrew his support.

Lawyers in Argentina filed fraud complaints Sunday against the libertarian president. The case was assigned Monday to Judge María Servini in Buenos Aires. She doesn’t have a deadline to finish investigating the allegations.