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DODOMA, Tanzania — Shortly before midnight on a spring night last year, Samia Suluhu Hassan, then Tanzania’s first female vice president, appeared on television to announce to a shocked nation...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — As Sri Lankans waited hours in line for fuel, sweated through the springtime heat during daily power cuts, and watched the value of their incomes erode, President Gotabaya...

The U.S. State Department said Monday that it had ordered all nonemergency U.S. consulate employees and their families to leave Shanghai as a lockdown aimed at containing a surge in omicron...

LAKSHMIPUR, India — The women adjusted their binoculars around their necks, secured their bright green saris, and climbed onto a motorboat to begin their weekly patrol in the Sundarbans, one of the...

ISLAMABAD — In the last hours before the midnight deadline for a no-confidence motion in Pakistan’s Parliament, the capital was on the brink. Prime Minister Imran Khan’s allies in...

PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron will face Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, in the runoff of France’s presidential elections. With 92% of the ballots cast Sunday counted, Macron, a...

Thinking about buying an electric car? You’re not alone. With gas prices painfully high and a series of climate reports underscoring the urgency of moving away from burning fossil fuels, more...

For anyone interested in the relationship between exercise and living longer, one of the most pressing questions is how much we really need to stay healthy. Are 30 minutes a day enough? Can we get by...

As long as there have been marine life, there have been marine snow — a ceaseless drizzle of death and waste sinking from the surface into the depths of the sea. The snow begins as motes, which...

ISLAMABAD — Imran Khan, a former international cricket star turned politician who oversaw a new era of Pakistan’s foreign policy that distanced the country from the United States, was removed as...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Friday that Will Smith would be barred from attending the Oscars for 10 years because of the “harmful behavior” he displayed when he struck...

Saudi Arabia will allow one million foreign and domestic Muslims to travel to the holy city of Mecca this year for the annual hajj pilgrimage in July, the country’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday overturned Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to dissolve parliament, setting the stage for a no-confidence vote widely expected to remove him from...

LVIV, Ukraine — From her bearing and demeanor, the college instructor waiting at the Lviv bus station on appeared to be accustomed to respect and, judging by her fur-trimmed coat and pink mohair hat...

Nations are not doing nearly enough to prevent global warming from increasing to dangerous levels within the lifetimes of most people on Earth today, according to a new report by the Intergovernmental...

Nations need to move away much faster from fossil fuels to retain any hope of preventing a perilous future on an overheated planet, according to a major new report on climate change released Monday,...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's president lost his parliamentary majority Tuesday as former allies urged his resignation, following days of street protests over the island nation's crippling...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s cabinet resigned en masse Sunday amid street protests and a dire economic crisis, the outgoing health minister said, leading to a vacuum in the leadership of a...

Late one night in 1995, in a cramped airplane cabin high over the Pacific, Madeleine Albright put down a draft of a speech I was set to deliver in Beijing at the upcoming United Nations conference on...

In April 2017, a man drove a stolen truck into a crowded shopping district in central Stockholm and crashed it into a department store, killing four people and injuring 15 others. The terrorist...