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The deaths were “devastating,” a White House spokesman said, but the scale of the attack was not enough to change U.S. policy.

Army engineers are working to put the pier back together, and Defense Department officials hope it will be operational again in about a week.

A bipartisan delegation promised to stand by the island’s newly elected president, Lai Ching-te, after Beijing surrounded the self-governing island with naval vessels and aircraft.

The assaults have hit military targets in Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine. Pressure is now mounting on Washington to let Kyiv fire the missiles into Russia itself.

The International Court of Justice ruling deepens Israel’s international isolation, but the court has no enforcement powers.

Nearly 350 inmates have been freed under a new law that allows them to serve in exchange for the possibility of parole, the country’s justice minister said.

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.

The decline, which was less than economists expected, is nearing the Bank of England’s 2 percent target.

As Moscow’s forces retake land from which they were ousted at the end of 2022, the Ukrainian military has adopted a strategy of fighting while slowly falling back to more heavily fortified positions.

The decline, which was less than economists expected, is nearing the Bank of England’s 2 percent target.