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The Israeli leader’s domestic support is eroding, while the international outcry over civilian deaths in Gaza grows louder. He was expected to speak by phone with President Biden on Thursday.

Decades of learning from disasters, tightening building codes and increasing public awareness may have helped its people better weather strong quakes.

The government is coming under more pressure to suspend arms sales to Israel after the strike on a convoy in Gaza that killed seven aid workers, including three Britons.

The main suspects in a deadly assault near Moscow were from Tajikistan. Now many other Tajiks, who fill jobs in Russia’s wartime economy, are being deported and harassed.

See scenes from around the island.

A bristling phone call reflected a shift in Lloyd J. Austin III’s tone toward his Israeli counterpart as he stressed the need for better protection of aid workers.

Political crisis has embroiled Panama’s May 5 presidential election, exacerbating uncertainty in a country dealing with drought and fallout from widespread protests.

In an airstrike on Monday in Damascus, Israel’s military displayed pinpoint precision. Hours later in Gaza, that same military killed seven aid workers.

Thousands of interns and residents who stopped working in February are testing the public’s high regard for physicians. But there is also anger at the government.

The magnitude-7.4 quake was followed by more than 200 aftershocks. Dozens of people were trapped. Two buildings in the city of Hualien teetered perilously.