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Recruiting convicts for its army has given Russia a manpower advantage. But it is backfiring in tragic ways when former inmates are pardoned and return home to commit new crimes.

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

The country’s military rulers have signaled a new wave of detentions and, rights groups say, conditions for existing prisoners have deteriorated.

The president has put Israel’s leader “on probation,” as a veteran diplomat put it. The threat is not idle, aides said, but he wants to force a course correction rather than follow through.

The move highlighted deepening political rifts for multinational corporations in the region and followed boycotts after the chain’s Israeli franchise owner donated meals to soldiers.

The Israeli police said they arrested eight people at the compound in Jerusalem, where thousands of Muslim worshippers had come for dawn prayers amid heavy security.

The resolution adds diplomatic weight to international demands to curb the supply of weapons being used in Gaza.

An inquiry found that a combat helicopter had “fired at a vehicle that had terrorists in it” but also, “in retrospect,” hostages.

“We’ll make the best of it here. And they can call it a pork roll.”

The charity food group World Central Kitchen suspended its relief efforts after seven of its workers were killed in Israeli airstrikes.