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Eritrea has not yet commented on the letter, but its relationship with Ethiopia has become increasingly strained in recent months.

This long-term slowdown in housing construction has left the region with an older, more strained housing stock and a deep shortfall in affordable options, USC said.

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the surge in energy prices has strained the economy even further – to near zero growth.

He’s also animated to look as if he’s had extensive plastic surgery and he speaks with a strained voice, as if he can’t move his face.

In 2019, almost a year after the Woolsey fire, a similar report prepared by Citygate Associates detailed how multiple simultaneous fires strained first responders’ ability to prioritize where to send people.