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NABATIEH, LEBANON-OCT. 17, 2024-After this month's bombing campaign on Nabatieh, Lebanon, 40 miles from the border with Israel, many people have been killed and injured. What was once southern Lebanon's second-most populated city, had been greatly reduced. It is a scene that is playing out in other cities and villages in the south. (Nabih Bulos / Los Angeles Times)

As Israeli airstrikes destroy cities in Lebanon, some see echoes of Gaza

As Israeli airstrikes flatten swaths of Lebanon, groups warn the attacks mirror some of the patterns of destruction and displacement seen in Gaza.

Fears of sectarian tensions rise in Lebanon as Israel expands strikes

Brian Kim poses in a park in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, October 14, 2024.
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Lee Eun-sook, center, the principal at Dochang Elementary, watches children play in the playground. The decline of South Korea' rural towns and their schools began with the country's rapid industrialization in the 1960s and 1970s, when farming and fishing villages saw a mass exodus of its young workforces to cities like Seoul. From 1982, education authorities responded to the fall in rural populations by shutting down around 5,000 elementary schools, which had become too small and too costly to maintain.

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FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, supporters of President Donald Trump, including Jacob Chansley, right with fur hat, are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol in Washington. Many of those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 cited falsehoods about the election, and now some of them are hoping their gullibility helps them in court. Albert Watkins, the St. Louis attorney representing Chansley, the so-called QAnon shaman, likened the process to brainwashing, or falling into the clutches of a cult. Repeated exposure to falsehood and incendiary rhetoric, Watkins said, ultimately overwhelmed his client's ability to discern reality. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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Residents socialize at a mall in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

$1.80 dinners and budget clothes? The spread of frugality is hurting China’s economy

Chinese consumers have become increasingly frugal. Experts say that’s bad news for the country’s economy.
People displaced by Israel's war on Hezbollah gesture after scuffle with members of the Lebanese security, after dozens of policemen arrived at the building to evict the displaced from the private property, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

With Hezbollah weakened by Israel, its political opponents in Lebanon see an opportunity

A man prays in front of an altar where Catholic priest Marcelo Perez died in an armed attack after attending mass at a church in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas state, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Catholic priest, noted human rights defender, assassinated in southern Mexico

TRIPOLI, LEBANON - OCTOBER 16: Relatives mourn during a funeral of 23 people, including 4 infants, women, and elderly, who lost their lives in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Aytu in northern Lebanon's Tripoli region on October 16, 2024.The victims were members of a migrant family from southern Lebanon's Aytaroun in the Bint Jbeil area, who had relocated three times before the attack reached them at their fourth refuge. (Photo by Murat Sengul/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Fears of sectarian tensions rise in Lebanon as Israel expands strikes

Philadelphia election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots for the general election, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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