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While the conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh concluded with an Azerbaijani victory, resentments simmer on both sides, creating fertile ground for new violence.

The fire, at a coal company’s offices in the province of Shanxi, also left at least 38 people hospitalized, the state-run news media reported. The cause was not immediately clear.

The Indian authorities are trying a second drilling technique to reach 40 men who are getting by on water and food sent in through a pipe.

Mr. Biden won applause when he noted that he and Mr. Xi had agreed to resume military-to-military communication to “reduce the risk of miscalculation.”

Human rights experts have estimated that some 14,000 people died from torture or were killed in the prisons run by military intelligence and security forces during Syria’s long civil war.

The Israeli military said it had recovered the body of a hostage kidnapped in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, from a building near Al-Shifa Hospital. It presented weapons it said it found at the hospital, which it says Hamas used as a base.

The body of Yehudit Weiss, one of the hostages that Hamas abducted during its Oct. 7 attack, was found next to the hospital complex in Gaza City.

About 100 Ukrainians a day travel back into Ukraine at an unofficial border crossing, bringing tales of repression and fear about life in Russian-controlled territories.

Westbound traffic into San Francisco was blocked, causing enormous traffic jams on highways in the East Bay. At least 50 people were arrested.

Plus accusations of atrocities in Darfur.