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A recent flurry of diplomacy aims to head off a conflict that could pit the United States directly against Iran.

Across Asia and Europe, the event stoked concerns about American stability, both domestically and on crucial foreign policy issues like Washington’s commitment to alliances.

After bombs again rained on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-biggest city, President Volodymyr Zelensky asked Western partners to permit the use of their weapons against air bases inside Russia.

“The people of the region and the people of the world cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza,” he said.

The inspections in Michoacán, the Mexican state responsible for most avocado exports to the U.S., were suspended last weekend because of security concerns.

The Treasury Department unveiled rules to curb financing of Chinese semiconductors, quantum computers and artificial intelligence systems.

Fearful that conscription is a one-way ticket to bloody trench warfare, the men spend their days holed up at home to avoid draft officers who roam the streets.

A White House spokesman said Ukraine had a critical need for the air defense systems. But the United States has only a limited supply.

The governing party’s director of campaigning has taken a leave of absence after reports his wife, a Conservative candidate, was being investigated by Britain’s gambling regulator.

Officials hope a looming deadline will pressure Israel to open more land routes into the territory, which is facing extreme levels of hunger.