The Israeli military is fighting Palestinian militants in Rafah while ordering the population to evacuate from parts of the southern Gaza city. The United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees said 360,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah over the past week. Around 1.3 million people were sheltering there before the operation began. Israeli forces are also battling militants in northern Gaza, areas where Israel had launched major operations earlier in the war. Aid workers are now struggling to distribute dwindling food and other supplies to displaced Palestinians. No food has entered the two main border crossings in southern Gaza for the past week.

Ukrainian officials and commanders say Russian troops are locked in intense battles with Ukrainian soldiers in the embattled town of Vovchansk and are pushing ahead with a ground offensive that opened a new front to put pressure on overstretched Ukrainian forces.  Moscow’s renewed northeast offensive, launched late last week, is the most significant border incursion since the full-scale invasion began. By Monday, only 200 to 300 residents remained inside Vovchansk, said Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Syniehubov, as Russian forces closed in from three sides. By intensifying offensive operations, Russia seeks to stretch Ukraine’s forces thin and forge breakthroughs ahead of the arrival of much-needed new munitions from the U.S.  and European allies, not expected to reach the battlefield for two months.

After withdrawing from two huge U.S. military bases in the Philippines at the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, American forces are returning and building a new presence in nine sites on Philippine bases under a 2014 defense pact to counter China's increasingly assertive actions. Most of the rural towns that will host the American forces are far-flung but located in relatively close proximity to the disputed South China Sea and Taiwan. Santa Ana in Cagayan province lies across a sea border from the self-governed island that China has threatened to annex. U.S. forces are building a smaller presence than in the past, but they still face logistical challenges.

The daily struggle to find work for Chinese immigrants living illegally in a borough of New York is a far cry from the picture Donald Trump and other Republicans have sought to paint. The former president has repeatedly suggested that Chinese migrants are a coordinated group of “military-age” men who have come to the United States to build an “army." Immigrants who talked to The Associated Press said they came to the U.S. to escape poverty in China or the threat of persecution in their repressive home country. Asian advocacy organizations say they're concerned the exaggerated rhetoric could fuel further harassment against Asians in the U.S.