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BRUSSELS — Insulin, heart treatments, and antibiotics have flowed freely across many borders for decades, exempt from tariffs in a bid to make medicine affordable. But that could soon change. ...

SYDNEY — Australia was the clear top choice when Ali Bajwa, a native of Pakistan, wanted to pursue a doctorate in agricultural science. The research in the field was cutting edge, the universities...

I was drawn to the outskirts of Cairo by the colossal complex in the desert — a towering site that arose over decades, built at unimaginable expense, with precisely cut stones sourced from local...

WASHINGTON — Last summer, a federal judge, Amit Mehta, delivered a landmark ruling that found Google had illegally dominated online search. “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — A government inquiry into a new $216 million international airport in Nepal’s second-biggest city found that “irregularities and corruption” by officials and lawmakers had...

The last time the courts seriously weighed the wisdom of breaking up a giant technology company was a quarter-century ago, after Microsoft was found to have illegally stifled competition in personal...

Auvers-sur-Oise, a village near Paris famed as an artist’s paradise, is also where Vincent van Gogh spent his final days and it has long drawn tourists to walk in the tortured painter’s last...

ROVANIEMI, Finland — After dinner at the Bull Bar and Grill in the small Finnish city of Rovaniemi, Mariel Tähtivaara, a law student, popped into a supermarket to grab some dessert. As she...

Maternal diabetes, a pregnancy complication that can affect up to a third of women globally, is linked with a higher risk of neurodevelopmental issues in children, a large new study found. The...

MUAN, South Korea — The latest warning came 10 days before the deadliest air crash in South Korea. A dozen officials gathered inside a room at Muan International Airport for a meeting of a bird...

SONIPAT, India—Even when India was facing a 27% tariff on most of its exports to the United States, business executives and government officials saw an upside. India’s biggest economic rival,...

BERLIN — The first meeting between the United States and Iran over its expanding nuclear program Saturday displayed a seriousness of purpose and an effort to avoid what neither side wants, another...

LONDON — British laws restricting what police can say about criminal cases are “not fit for the social media age,” a government committee said in a report released Monday in Britain that...

After more than a week of ratcheting up tariffs on products imported from China, the Trump administration issued a rule late Friday that spared smartphones, computers, semiconductors, and other...

It costs about 14 euros, or about $15, per minute to drive a rented Lamborghini on the public roads of northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region. This feels especially exorbitant in a place where a...

Three years later, Khadija Zaidi-Rashid still remembers the screams of other passengers, the unsettled expression on the flight attendant’s face, and the helplessness she felt holding her infant on...

If the on-again, off-again tariff announcements by President Donald Trump have struck you as unusual, that’s for good reason. Nothing like this has ever happened before. That’s the estimation...

LONDON — Britain became a byword for self-inflicted economic harm and instability after Brexit and former Prime Minister Liz Truss’ calamitous tax cuts. But now the country sees an opportunity to...

HONG KONG — For the two men at the forefront of a trade war that has begun to rupture ties between the world’s biggest economies, the question has become who will blink first. On one side is...

BEIJING — As the United States and China barreled headfirst into a full-fledged trade war this week, one of Beijing’s most fashionable shopping districts was still bustling. People browsed a...