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With a focus on affordability, community, convenience and light, Liu Thai Ker replaced squalid slums with spacious high-rises. A recent spike in some sale prices, however, has saddened him.

The government has committed hundreds of millions of dollars for people fleeing domestic violence, but among those who work with victims and survivors, optimism is hard to find.

The Pentagon predicted that a stream of humanitarian aid would be arriving in Gaza via the floating pier, but little relief has reached the besieged strip, officials acknowledged this week.

People were feared to be trapped after parts of a beach restaurant’s terraces fell down to ground level on a Spanish island popular with tourists.

In Safed, a center of kabbalah, ordinary citizens shocked by the Oct. 7 attacks are carrying military-grade weapons.

While the government has been hit with a string of diplomatic and legal defeats, the Israeli public’s support for the Gaza war remains strong.

The Israeli military’s offensive in southern Gaza advanced toward the city’s center, even as its government faced growing pressure on the international stage over the war.

President Biden welcomed President William Ruto of Kenya and said he intended to designate his country as a “major non-NATO ally.”

It was unclear if negotiators from Egypt and Qatar would participate.

Also, China holds ‘punishment’ drills around Taiwan.