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The Gaza health ministry said that one person was killed in an airstrike at Al Shifa hospital that it blamed on Israel. The Israeli military declined to comment.

As drivers protested what they say is unfair competition from their Ukrainian counterparts, the waiting time at one checkpoint was estimated to be seven days.

An offensive by an alliance of armed ethnic groups based in the north has seized key towns, galvanized groups elsewhere and spotlighted the military’s weakness.

A government campaign against what it calls “homosexual propaganda” is unsettling booksellers and has resulted in the firing of the director of one of the country’s leading museums.

The tourist attraction, a geothermal spa that is popular with Americans, said it would “carefully monitor the seismic developments” as a precautionary measure.

After a small group of parakeets were released from a zoo in Brussels in the 1970s, their numbers soared. A population increase has also occurred across the continent.

The San José galleon was destroyed in 1708, sinking with goods now worth billions. Colombia’s government is planning a recovery, but not everyone wants to see the shipwreck brought to the surface.

The country’s authorities have banned many protests in the name of fighting antisemitism. Critics say such restrictions are discriminatory.

Officials blame immigrants and liberal housing laws, but a Times investigation found the entrenched problems that turned downtown Johannesburg into a blighted tinderbox.

Israeli authorities, for their part, seemed intent on making clear that the pauses were limited in time and area, not a broader, sustained halt. Israeli soldiers have advanced deep into northern Gaza.