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China is using talks between its top leader and Ma Ying-jeou to signal a willingness to engage with Taiwan — but only on its terms.

Also, a landmark climate ruling in Europe.

A former vice president of Ecuador, Jorge Glas had been convicted of bribery in two separate cases. He had fled to the Mexican Embassy in Quito after facing more embezzlement charges.

Global tourism brought a modern economy to the country’s thousand islands. For many Maldivians, the teeming capital beckons.

The club is strutting into a future different from the one envisioned by its president, Florentino Pérez. But its prospects are as bright as ever.

The Israeli military, which has accepted responsibility for the strike, has started looking into the killings of seven aid workers. But the disaster relief organization said that was not enough.

The deaths of World Central Kitchen workers pushed the number of aid employees killed during the war in Gaza to at least 196, according to the U.N. secretary general, António Guterres.

Decades of learning from disasters, tightening building codes and increasing public awareness may have helped its people better weather strong quakes.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel acknowledged on Tuesday a “tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people.”

The quake set off aftershocks and damaged dozens of buildings, killing nine people and leaving many injured or trapped.