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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...

KAMAKWIE, Sierra Leone — There are no COVID fears here. The district’s COVID-19 response center has registered just 11 cases since the start of the pandemic, and no deaths. At the regional...

CAIRO — The price of groceries was going up everywhere Souad Amer checked, so it was with nervous hope that she waded into a government-subsidized market in her Cairo neighborhood where a...

Search crews have found the second of two flight recorders from a passenger plane that abruptly plunged to earth in southern China, killing 132 people, officials said Sunday, nearly a week after the...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is planning to give Americans age 50 or older the option of a second booster of the Pfizer or Moderna coronavirus vaccine without recommending outright that...

The World Health Organization reported that the highly contagious omicron subvariant, BA.2, that is helping to drive another surge of coronavirus cases in Europe is now the dominant version of omicron...

Madeleine K. Albright, a child of Czech refugees who fled from Nazi invaders and Communist oppressors and then landed in the United States, where she flourished as a diplomat and the first woman to...

Ukrainian forces pressed to thwart the Russian invasion, mounting counteroffensives on multiple fronts and retaking a town outside of Kyiv on Tuesday, while the more heavily armed Russians, unable to...

Rescue workers on Tuesday searched a remote mountain valley in southern China for any survivors in Monday's crash of a passenger plane carrying 132 people that plunged more than 20,000 feet in just...

During a workshop in the fall at the Vatican, Stanislas Dehaene, a cognitive neuroscientist with the Collège de France, gave a presentation chronicling his quest to understand what makes humans —...