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The Transportation Department said Monday that it had fined a half-dozen airlines a total of more than $7 million for failing to provide timely refunds to customers. The department’s intervention...

ISTANBUL — A bomb attack struck a bustling pedestrian thoroughfare in central Istanbul on Sunday, killing at least eight people in what officials said could be a terrorist attack and shattering a...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — For 30 years, developing countries have been calling for industrialized ones to provide compensation for the costs of devastating storms and droughts caused by climate...

Republicans on Tuesday gained ground in their push to take control of the House, although Democrats appeared to be holding their own against hard-right GOP candidates in crucial districts as they...

A year ago, at the UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, heads of state and business leaders made a long list of splashy promises to help fight global warming. But as the 2022 climate...

Weeks after expressing optimism about the global economy and its business, Apple on Sunday warned that its sales would fall short of expectations because a key iPhone factory in China had been...

Twitter announced Saturday that it would begin charging customers $7.99 a month to receive a verification check mark on their profiles, one of a raft of product changes that the company has...

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter is facing an exodus of executives and skittish advertisers as Elon Musk and his advisers take control of the social media company, prepare to lay off employees and make...

With nearly 1 million job vacancies across the country, Canada is turning more squarely toward foreigners to address its labor shortage and has set record-breaking immigration targets for the coming...

It’s that time of year again when stuffy noses and irrepressible coughs start to show up everywhere. Experts are already predicting that this year’s flu season will be a rough one and are...

A record number of cholera outbreaks around the globe, driven by droughts, floods, and armed conflicts, has sickened hundreds of thousands of people and so severely strained the supply of cholera...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian voters Sunday ousted President Jair Bolsonaro. In the closest election since the country’s return to democracy in 1985, voters decided to bring back former President...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil on Sunday faces a crossroads. After months of pitches to voters, the nation will decide one of Latin America’s most important elections in decades, picking between the...

SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk has started cleaning house at Twitter with the firings of at least four top executives Thursday, said two people with knowledge of the situation, as the billionaire closes...

SAN FRANCISCO — After months of waffling, lawsuits, verbal mudslinging, and the near miss of a full-blown trial, Elon Musk now owns Twitter. On Thursday night, Musk closed his $44 billion deal...

Countries around the world are failing to live up to their commitments to fight climate change, pointing Earth toward a future with more intense flooding, wildfires, drought, heat waves, and...

LONDON — Rishi Sunak would have every right to be smug. Throughout the summer, Sunak, Britain’s former finance minister — and now the front-runner for prime minister — warned against the...

LONDON — The swift departure of Britain’s second prime minister in just six weeks left many Britons who had already stared down a year of economic and political turmoil in a state of frustration...

CHERNIHIV, Ukraine — Near the front door of the second-floor apartment is a pile of blankets, just in case. Plastic sheeting covers the broken windows in the main bedroom. The lower half of the wall...

LONDON — It seemed at once incredible and inevitable. No sooner had Prime Minister Liz Truss of Britain announced her sudden resignation Thursday afternoon than a familiar name surfaced as a...