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While the internet has made it easier to plan a trip yourself — and see how much you’re saving — it also demands you slog through hundreds of pages of destination research, hotel, and home...

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan appeared in court in the Pakistani capital Thursday after being charged under the country’s anti-terrorism act, the latest step in an intensifying crackdown on Khan...

Ford Motor is preparing to cut 3,000 jobs as part of a drive to reduce costs and become more competitive amid the auto industry’s transition to electric vehicles. The company plans to eliminate...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s former prime minister, Imran Khan, was charged under the country’s anti-terrorism act Sunday in a drastic escalation of the tense power struggle between the...

While the internet has made it easier to plan a trip yourself — and see how much you’re saving — it also demands you slog through hundreds of pages of destination research, hotel, and home...

GODHRA, India — For 15 years, as she moved from house to house for her family’s safety, Bilkis Bano waited for assurance from the courts that the men who gang-raped her and murdered many of her...

At the beginning of this year, there was a thrum of excitement among global health experts: Eradication of polio, a centuries-old foe that has paralyzed legions of children around the globe, seemed...

KISUMU, Kenya — For decades, Kenyan veteran opposition politician Raila Odinga has been the chief political power broker in the western counties around Lake Victoria, relying on his fellow Luo...

NEW DELHI — Pradeep Paswan used to skip school for weeks, sometimes months. His classrooms with tin ceilings were baking hot in the summer. The bathrooms were filthy. Now, he gets dressed by 7...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Speaking for the first time since he lost Kenya’s hard-fought presidential election, opposition leader Raila Odinga rejected the result announced Monday and vowed to pursue “all...

The federal government is doling out billions of dollars to encourage people to buy electric vehicles. Automakers are building new factories and scouring the world for raw materials. And so many...

RECIFE, Brazil — A procession of mothers pushed children in bulky wheelchairs down a long corridor at a health center in this northeastern Brazilian city, passing patients who glanced at the...

The president was cornered, his back to the sea.Inside the dimly lit colonial mansion, he had found lonely, Gotabaya Rajapaksa watched from a hastily arranged operations room as the monthslong...

Weeks after recording its highest-ever temperature, Britain was preparing for another unsettling stretch of hot weather, as officials said an extreme heat warning would be in place for much of the...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — The joke is that if you want it to rain during this wetter-than-usual summer in the Caribbean, just start a cricket match. Beneath the humor is a seemingly tacit...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Four years ago, immigration officers arrived at dawn to rip a Sri Lankan family away from the life they had built in the tiny Australian town of Biloela.The authorities had...

South Korea set off for the moon on Thursday. But it doesn’t want to stop there. “We are also considering using the moon as an outpost for space exploration,” Kwon Hyun-joon, director general...

SINGAPORE — The temperature had reached 86 degrees and was climbing. Humidity was measured at 75%. Sunshine glinted off the tall buildings.' Fourteen volunteers, six climate researchers, and a...

CHENNAI, India — Amul Vasudevan, a vegetable hawker in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, thought she was going to go out of business. The state had forbidden retailers to use disposable...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and his top advisers have tried for months to press forward amid a seemingly endless drumbeat of dispiriting news: rising inflation, high gas prices, a crumbling...