UNITED NATIONS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday acknowledged a Palestinian state, leading a UN summit that has already prompted other Western governments to take a landmark that has enraged Israel. “The time has come for peace, as we are just a few minutes away from we can no longer understand it,” Macron told the summit. “It is time to release the 48 hostages that Hamas holds. The time has come to stop the war, the bomb attacks of Gaza, the slaughter and the shift,” Macron said. Australia, Britain, Canada and Portugal have also taken a largely symbolic step of