The attacker likely had links to the Islamic State and was possibly targeting a Christian church in the center of Alepp…

The authorities seized the Fitburg, a cargo ship that was en route from Russia to Israel when it sliced the cable in th…

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The train was carrying around 250 passengers and crew members on a cross-country route linking the Pacific and the Gulf…

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The first draft essentially called for Ukraine’s surrender. The revised version includes the security guarantees Kyiv w…

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A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Ser…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the ship seizures were meant to force Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro…

Two new London murals, widely attributed to the mysterious street artist, combine seasonal themes with what appears to …

The attack appeared to be the latest targeted assassination of senior military officials inside Russia’s borders. fro…

In what prosecutors say was an inside job, copper pots, porcelain and Baccarat Champagne glasses were stolen from the i…

Proposals that emerged in recent negotiations with the United States were “rather unconstructive,” a Kremlin official s…

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The attacker killed at last week’s Hanukkah celebration in Australia came from a Muslim area whose residents have long …

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The alleged gunmen in the shooting, Sajid Akram, 50 and his son, Naveed Akram, 24, were from Bonnyrigg, a diverse, mult…

Investigators said they were unsure of the attacker’s motives. But clues pointed to an isolated and increasingly troubl…

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American forces struck dozens of suspected ISIS sites, making good on President Trump’s vow to avenge two American sold…

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Workers at the budget hotel in the southern Philippines, a region that has long battled Islamist insurgencies, said the…

Barham Salih, who fought against Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq and later served as president, was chosen to lead the U.…

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President Trump said the United States wanted to reclaim expropriated oil assets, setting off a nationalist reaction in…

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The president announced the move using bellicose language, in an escalation of his pressure campaign against Nicolás Ma…

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More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, aut…

The two men who killed 15 people on Sunday were driven by “Islamic State ideology,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tol…

The European Union has mounted an “air bridge” effort, with at least eight aid flights planned to Sudan. But getting su…

José Antonio Kast won the race on Sunday after a contest marked by concerns over security and immigration. from NYT &…

The New South Wales police commissioner did not give the men’s names, but said the elder was 50, had licenses for six f…

The gunman who killed two U.S. soldiers and an American civilian interpreter had been set to be dismissed from the secu…

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The strike on a United Nations base in the southern Kordofan region was the deadliest single episode for the body’s per…

An American firm with experience in special operations spirited María Corina Machado, the recipient of the Nobel Peace …

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Four Canadian provinces are selling off the American liquor they pulled from shelves in protest over President Trump’s …

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The United States is escalating its pressure campaign on Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, after seizing an oil tanke…

María Corina Machado, who spent over a year in hiding in Venezuela, greeted supporters in Oslo, hours after her daughte…

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The fighting in Congo continues despite Washington’s claims to have brokered an end to the conflict. from NYT > Wo…

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María Corina Machado is being honored for her push for democracy even as she backs President Trump’s military buildup a…

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The country’s attorney general said he had issued an international arrest warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández. from NY…

Russell Bonner Bentley III, 64, who was living in the occupied Donbas region of Ukraine, was beaten and tortured to dea…

Poland has charged a little-known Russian opposition figure with espionage and participating in a bomb plot. His friend…

The plane, carrying about 50 Iranians and other deportees, took off from Arizona on Sunday, under a deal the Trump admi…

Officials told the Indian news media that the fire tore through a nightclub in the southwestern state of Goa, a popular…

President Trump backed Nasry Asfura days before the Nov. 30 election and denounced his opponents. In a close race, that…

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President Trump’s new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing mig…

The man ingested the egg locket at a jewelry store in New Zealand last week, according to the authorities. from NYT &…

An armed group backed by the United Arab Emirates has pushed into the oil-rich province of Hadramout, a move that could…

President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about p…

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The Trump administration, which crippled Russia’s oil sales to India with sanctions, will be watching Mr. Putin’s talks…

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The separatists were battling to secure the region’s oil fields, residents and the group’s officials said. Their swift …

The authorities quickly arrested critics demanding accountability, signaling an expansive use of the security law to si…

President Lee Jae Myung reaffirmed wanting to build nuclear-powered submarines at home, despite President Trump’s sugge…

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Honduras was on edge after tallies showed two candidates separated by about 500 votes. Then President Trump claimed tha…

In Moscow, Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, is expected to present President Vladimir V. Putin with a re…

Joaquín Guzmán López admitted to having the once-untouchable drug kingpin Ismael Zambada García abducted and flown to t…

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