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The regional rivals have for decades targeted each other’s interests, including with a recent strike in Syria that killed three Iranian commanders. Here are some other notable flash points.

Seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed overnight after their convoy took fire in Gaza.

Another 12-year-old was killed and two other students were wounded in a country with one of the highest rates of gun ownership in Europe.

“Gaza right now is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a humanitarian worker,” a spokeswoman for Save the Children said after a strike killed World Central Kitchen workers.

No memes or spontaneity to see here, people. Just the usual official pictures of Emperor Naruhito and his family.

To lure swiftlets, whose saliva-built nests fetch high prices in China, people in Borneo compete to build them the most luxurious accommodations: safe, clean, dark and with pools for bathing.

Bengaluru gets plenty of rain. But the city did not properly adapt as its soaring population strained traditional water sources.

The airstrike on an Iranian Embassy building was one of the biggest attacks yet in a shadow war that has increasingly been moving into the open.

Blocking solar rays. Sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Ideas that sound like science fiction are now starting to become reality, raising concerns about safety.

The soldiers left widespread devastation after battles with Palestinian militants in and around the Al-Shifa complex. “Now it looks like a wasteland,” a surgeon at the hospital said.