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The quake set off aftershocks and damaged dozens of buildings, killing nine people and leaving many injured or trapped.

The leaders included Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the senior most leader in Iran’s armed forces assassinated since Qassim Suleimani was killed in 2020.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel acknowledged on Tuesday a “tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people.”

The group said one of the seven workers who was killed was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, while the others were from Australia, Britain, Gaza and Poland.

Some Muslim communities rely on a centuries-old method to determine when Ramadan ends: a crescent moon. That method was harder to follow this year.

Some governments that sell weapons to Israel — a list that is topped by the United States and Germany — are facing legal challenges and protests over those exports.

A former vice president of Ecuador, Jorge Glas had been convicted of bribery in two separate cases. He had fled to the Mexican Embassy in Quito after facing more embezzlement charges.

The club is strutting into a future different from the one envisioned by its president, Florentino Pérez. But its prospects are as bright as ever.

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

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