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A car used by World Central Kitchen that was hit in Gaza. Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Israeli strikes killed 7 aid workers in Gaza

Israeli strikes on a marked World Central Kitchen aid convoy in the Gaza Strip killed seven aid workers, fanning international outrage and underscoring the risks to humanitarian workers trying to fend off famine. The workers were hit despite having coordinated their movements with the Israeli military, the charity said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said in a message on X that “Israel deeply regrets the tragic incident” and promised a “swift and transparent” investigation. Governments from around the world condemned the killings.

As of March 20, at least 196 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since the fighting began on Oct. 7, according to the U.N. Israeli strikes have hit aid distribution centers, schools and shelters run by aid groups.

World Central Kitchen said that it was suspending operations in the territory, as did American Near East Refugee Aid, or Anera. Other aid groups said they were assessing their options.

The victims: World Central Kitchen said the people killed were from Gaza, Australia, Britain, Poland, Canada and the U.S.

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President Biden intended the talk to be a “check-in,” one administration official said. Bonnie Cash for The New York Times

Biden and Xi discussed conflicts

President Biden and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, discussed issues both cooperative and combative during a rare telephone conversation yesterday. The call was an attempt to buoy a relationship that hit a decades-long low last year.

Biden brought up China’s support for Russia in the war in Ukraine, fighting narcotics production, the Middle East conflict, North Korea’s nuclear program and TikTok. He also raised the issue of China’s aggression toward Taiwan and in the South China Sea.

Xi criticized U.S. measures to suppress China’s economy, science and technology and called for “concrete actions” from the U.S. to show that the country would not support Taiwan’s independence, according to a Chinese summary of the call.

Next steps: Janet Yellen, the U.S. treasury secretary, heads to China this week for economic talks, and Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, will follow soon after.

More on Biden: The president said that an “outrageous” decision by a Florida court to uphold a restrictive abortion law had effectively eliminated access to the procedure across the American South.

Russian soldiers who now fight for Ukraine riding on top of an armored vehicle. David Guttenfelder for The New York Times

Ukraine’s drone attacks reached deep into Russia

Exploding drones hit an oil refinery and a factory far to the east of Moscow in what the Ukrainian news media and military experts said was among the longest-range Ukrainian drone strikes in the war.

The drones struck in the Tatarstan region of Russia, about 700 miles from Ukrainian-held territory. Ukraine’s drone campaign against Russian oil refineries, which began last October, has since shrunk Russia’s refining capacity and forced it to ban gasoline exports for six months.

Weapons: Ukraine’s arms industry is ramping up its capabilities, but it isn’t clear if it will grow quickly enough to change the war’s trajectory.

More Russia news: The U.S. warning to Russia before a terrorist attack near Moscow specified that Crocus City Hall was a potential target of the Islamic State, U.S. officials said.Continue reading the main story

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Oren Etzioni, an artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Washington, made one of the earliest warnings that A.I. would accelerate the spread of disinformation online.

In January, he founded a nonprofit group, TrueMedia.org, to address the threat, and yesterday the organization released free tools for identifying digital disinformation. But in a year when billions of people will vote in elections, Dr. Etzioni said he’s still “terrified” of a “tsunami of misinformation.”

Lives lived: John Barth extended the limits of storytelling with imaginative and intricately woven novels like “The Sot-Weed Factor” and “Giles Goat-Boy.” He died at 93.

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Who will prevail?: Liverpool and Arsenal are testing Manchester City in a new way.

Cabot Citrus Farms: Making something new out of an old golf resort.

An unpredictable season so far: Chaos is the order of the day in tennis.

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Rome’s future focuses on its past

City leaders are promoting a new vision that will turn Rome’s center into a giant, pedestrian-friendly public space.

The area will link Rome’s Imperial Fora to other sites, branching out from the Colosseum to include the Palatine Hill, the Circus Maximus and the Capitoline Hill, with roads in between.

Normally, the area is crowded with tourists and those who cater to them, like tour guides, street vendors and street artists. Some critics worry that the plan could effectively turn the center of Rome into an open-air Disneyland.

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Cook: Add turmeric to this creamy pasta.