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On Sunday night, dozens of people settled into their seats in front of a large screen at a makeshift, open-air venue in the central Gaza Strip. Each person in the crowd of mostly young men had paid a...

After Spain won the soccer World Cup, Lucía Sánchez joined a boisterous river of fans clad in red-and-yellow jerseys early Monday in Madrid and took stock of the special time her country was...

Dennis Schmidt started smoking as a teenager, when that was so unexceptional that his Catholic high school designated outdoor “senior smoking quarters,” where students in their final year could...

After more than a week of strikes that unraveled an ill-fated ceasefire, the conflict between the United States and Iran stands on a knife’s edge. Now is the time, analysts say, to find a way to...

When Spain and Argentina face off in the World Cup final in New Jersey on Sunday afternoon, the three stripes of Adidas will be everywhere. Adidas sponsors both national teams. It also has...

The Iranian attack that killed two U.S. soldiers and left one service member missing on Friday was the fourth in five days on U.S. forces in Jordan, multiple U.S. officials said. Taken together, the...

For more than three decades, Noboru Watanabe wore the uniform of the Japanese salaryman: trousers, a starched shirt, a jacket and a necktie. But last week, Watanabe, 53, an environmental official in...

Britain has become accustomed to shuffling through prime ministers at a rapid pace and is now poised to have its seventh leader in a decade. But the transition still requires a few steps. Last month,...

HONG KONG — China’s economy last quarter grew at the slowest rate in three years, reflecting a broader slump that the country’s leaders signaled earlier this year when they set the lowest growth...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday walked back his statement that the United States would levy steep fees on cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz, adding to a string of about-faces that have...

 The Trump administration has lurched back into a war against Iran that had never really ended. When the war started more than four months ago, U.S. forces targeted Iranian military bases, missile...

President Donald Trump’s much-touted ceasefire with Iran effectively collapsed on Monday as he ordered the reinstatement of a naval blockade and announced that he will impose tolls on shipping in...

The fee that President Donald Trump wants to charge ships going through the Strait of Hormuz would significantly increase the cost of transporting oil and other products through the crucial waterway,...

Volkswagen has problems around the world, spurring it to announce Thursday that it would slash the number of models it offers by as much as half, but many of its troubles can be traced to China. The...

For two months, under a quiet arrangement with the US Navy, commercial tankers turned off their transponders to avoid detection by Iran as they crossed the perilous Strait of Hormuz to carry oil and...

OTTAWA, Ontario — Despite the best efforts of President Donald Trump, the Gordie Howe International Bridge spanning Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, will open on July 27, the government of Canada...

 When I was younger, I had a large, healthy appetite. Now that I’m in my 60s, I get fuller faster, and I can’t eat like I used to. What’s going on? It’s common for people to eat less as they...

A passenger survived after he was partly pulled out of the window of a plane that had taken off from Thessaloniki, Greece, on Friday, the Greek news media reported. The man’s head was out the...

The global economy is set to slow sharply in 2026 after the war with Iran disrupted energy supply chains and triggered a fresh bout of inflation, the International Monetary Fund warned Wednesday. The...

In early June, Ally Betchan and her family made the monthly trek from their small central Texas town to a therapy center in Austin, hoping that she could learn to communicate.  Like nearly 30% of...