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Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, making his New Year’s Eve address, said the change would force Europe to do more …

Customs agents have broad authority to search the electronic devices of travelers entering and leaving the U.S. Here ar…

Chinese panels are now so affordable that businesses and families are snapping them up, slashing their bills and challe…

Though discussions produced little tangible progress, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at least avoided the type…

Ms. Brosseau says mental illness has made her life unbearable. She wants a medically assisted death. Even her psychiatr…

When the Trump administration slashed foreign aid, it gutted a program that had reduced malaria deaths world wide. In n…

The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa has a major exhibition of 164 works from around the world depicting winter and…

After the country barred children under 16 from using social media, many parents have been asking whether similarly tou…

No group has claimed responsibility for the blast, which happened on a day when many worshipers typically attend mosque…

Detty December means a month of “back to back to back” partying in Nigeria’s megacity. Ruth Maclean, the West Africa bu…

Haitham Salem spent 11 months held by Israel without charge and said he endured beatings and abuse. He was released as …

The blueprint covers a broad range of issues, including territory, security guarantees and postwar reconstruction. But …

Two police officers died in the explosion, the authorities said. Earlier this week a car bomb killed a military command…

Since the cease-fire took effect, Israel says it has targeted only militants. But death can come for Gazans while on a …

Germany’s centrist establishment has long scorned the far left, but it is increasingly reliant on leftists to outmaneuv…

A spokesman for the Nigerian government said that the “remaining” students from a Catholic school had been freed, but t…

President Javier Milei is eliminating barriers to what had been a closed-off economy, moving in the opposite direction …

The Pompidou Center is the place to see contemporary art in Paris. Or it was, until curators put its astonishing collec…

Inside a tornado-hardened office in Texas, 1,700 American Airlines employees manage the carrier’s operations, respondin…

A man in Austria was charged in the death of his girlfriend after leaving her behind, in a case testing ideas of freedo…

The loan will cover two-thirds of the country’s financial needs for the next two years. It also bolsters Ukraine’s posi…

Omar García Harfuch is overseeing one of the most aggressive offensives in years against Mexico’s powerful criminal gro…

New legislation will be drafted to target those who promote violence and to increase penalties for hate speech, the pri…

Dmitri N. Kozak had worked with President Vladimir V. Putin for three decades before quitting in September. His associa…

Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort t…

The government said it would pay about $760 million to allow young Britons to take part in 2027. from NYT > World …

In 1989, Gen. Xu Qinxian defied orders to crush the pro-democracy protests in Beijing. Now, leaked video from his court…

In a short video, the French first lady said that she was “sorry if I have hurt women victims,” but she also noted that…

Often left out by the United States in peace negotiations, European countries are working to assert their leadership an…

In public, the White House says it is confronting Venezuela to curb drug trafficking. Behind the scenes, gaining access…

For the second day running, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was set to meet in Berlin with Steve Witkoff and Ja…

The new chancellor believes the world needs a stronger Germany. He is still navigating how to do it. from NYT > Wo…

At least 10 people were injured on Sunday in a shooting at the beach, the ambulance service of the state of New South W…

South Korea has a notoriously grueling college entrance exam. This year’s English portion was so difficult that it led …

The national soccer team made it to the knockout stages of the Arab Cup for the first time, uniting fans from Gaza to t…

Russia has been targeting energy infrastructure in Ukraine, leaving multiple cities without electricity. Kim Barker, wh…

Critics say Syria’s fledgling government is hobbling military preparedness as it redoes the country’s forces from scrat…

The atmospheric river over the Pacific Northwest brought a deluge to British Columbia, forcing road closures and evacua…

A new document cites Washington’s shifting strategic priorities and growing pressure on allies under President Trump as…

Thailand says ordnance replanted by Cambodia has injured or maimed more than a dozen of its soldiers. Cambodia rejects …

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of IS…

Europeans find themselves stranded between hostile powers, Russia and the United States, with key decisions looming ove…

Hundreds of weather balloons sent to Lithuania this year have disrupted flights and stirred alarm in a sabotage campaig…

Western museums are returning the Benin Bronzes — priceless items looted during colonialism — to Nigeria, but political…

Looking to shake off Moscow’s cultural influences, Kyiv has been seeking to highlight the Ukrainian roots of Kazimir Ma…

After decades of growth driven by diamond mining, Canada’s Northwest Territories are facing the closure of three major …

Containers of bananas, avocados and plantains fell off a cargo ship off the Isle of Wight. A soggy fruit harvest ensued…

Ukraine’s president was expected in London to discuss with the leaders of Britain, France and Germany ways of ending th…

The country’s interior minister said the situation was under control after a “small group of soldiers launched a mutiny…

One man was arrested after a substance that appeared to be pepper spray was used during a fight in one of the airport’s…

Laduma Ngxokolo, the designer behind MaXhosa Africa, is on a mission to embrace his country’s history and traditions, r…

A book revives the largely forgotten story of how one of America’s most famous founding fathers tried to make Canada a …

Scientists fear warming is driving a collapse in the ocean currents that shape climate far and wide. The ice-choked wat…

An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are …

The Israeli government authorized 22 settlements in May, the largest expansion in decades, and Palestinian families are…

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The authorities arrested four people this week in the latest turn in the country’s effort to stop exploitative recordin…

Images of the destruction caused by storms that have torn through South and Southeast Asia. from NYT > World News …

Many Filipinos say floods are worse than ever — and now, the government has admitted that vast sums were embezzled from…

Ukraine’s president met with President Emmanuel Macron of France on Monday as Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special …

In Budapest, political disputes and aging infrastructure have led to cascading problems, and prolonged closings, at sev…