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Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment.”

President Biden said the 60-day truce, which the United States helped broker, would take effect early Wednesday, and was intended to become permanent, ending Lebanon’s deadliest war in decades.

The attack struck in the heart of the Lebanese capital after a series of evacuation warnings — the first for the city center during the war.

It was unclear how or when Iran plans to respond, or whether the rhetoric could be bluster. Iranian officials had downplayed the damage of Israel’s last attack.

Comedy has become a way for women to skewer China’s gender inequality. Some men aren’t happy about it.

Israel’s military warned civilians to leave Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley via three routes. The city had largely been spared Israeli bombardment until this week.

At least 1,085 buildings have been destroyed or badly damaged since Israel’s invasion targeting the Hezbollah militia, including many in controlled demolitions, a New York Times analysis shows.

Gazan agencies said that children were among those killed in the strike in Beit Lahia. A U.S. State Department spokesman called the strike “a horrifying incident with a horrifying result.”

The party that has governed the country since 1966 could lose power as the economy struggles from a slump in demand for diamonds, which made Botswana an African success story.

Most of the provisions of the laws, which could threaten UNRWA’s work by barring its operations in the country, will not take effect for three months.