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An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [t] has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It is the fifth war since 2008 in the Gaza–Israel conflict, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. [77]
Iran, [a] [b] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) [c] and also known as Persia, [d] is a country in West Asia.It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played in the United States to determine the men's college basketball national champion of the Division I level in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Xi launched the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone in 2013, which was seen as part of the economic reforms. [171] However, by 2017, Xi's promise of economic reforms was said to have stalled by experts. [ 172 ] [ 169 ] In 2015, the Chinese stock market bubble popped , which led Xi to use state forces to fix it. [ 173 ]