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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government this week barred female Afghan employees at the United Nations from working in Afghanistan, according to U.N. officials, a move threatening one of the last...

Countless travelers have experienced the distinct anxiety-inducing sensation of turbulence on flights: eyes squeezed shut, hands clamped to the armrests for dear life, bracing for the roller coaster...

Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $8.9 billion to tens of thousands of people who claimed the company’s talcum powder products caused cancer, a proposal that lawyers for...

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter users anticipated a reckoning over the weekend as the verification check marks that denoted the accounts of celebrities, politicians, and other notable figures and...

VENICE, Italy — In the middle of the night, as the tide rose, winds whipped and waves grew, an engineer in a command center on an artificial island on the rim of the Venice, Italy, lagoon clicked an...

ACCRA, Ghana — Vice President Kamala Harris has begun a weeklong tour of Ghana and two other African nations as the Biden administration hopes to set a new path for U.S.-Africa ties that focuses on...

The 30 women sat in wooden chairs, facing each other in a rectangular formation. At the front of the room was the ruling Communist Party’s hammer and sickle logo, with a sign declaring the...

One day soon, in the artificial-intelligence-powered future, a vacation might start by telling your smartphone something like this: “I want to take a four-day trip to Los Angeles in June, whenever...

For the first time in its history, Canada grew by more than 1 million people last year and most of them were newcomers, signaling that the federal government’s ambitious goal of boosting immigration...

SAN FRANCISCO — Google has released a new chatbot, Bard, and has shared the experimental technology with a limited number of people in the United States and Britain.Bard competes with similar...

MINOH, Japan — Strawberry shortcake. Strawberry mochi. Strawberries a la mode. These may sound like summertime delights. But in Japan, the strawberry crop peaks in wintertime — a chilly season...

The International Criminal Court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for war crimes for President Vladimir Putin and a second Russian official. Here’s a closer look at the court, the warrant, and...

What makes a city great? Whether you’re living in Durban, South Africa, or Medellín, Colombia, perhaps no two people living in one place will have the same answer. But ask residents across...

Silicon Valley Bank’s British subsidiary will be acquired by banking giant HSBC, the Bank of England announced Monday as it emphasized the stability of the nation’s banking system. “This...

Flying to Tanzania for her honeymoon on Ethiopian Airlines in November, Amanda Meeks was ready to celebrate. So, when an email arrived inviting her to bid on business class seats for the leg of the...

LONDON — King Charles III granted his youngest sibling, Prince Edward, the title of Duke of Edinburgh, Buckingham Palace said on Friday, Edward’s 59th birthday. Edward, who is 13th in line...

JERUSALEM — Israeli leaders have for years considered Iran an existential threat, viewed Saudi Arabia as a potential partner, and hoped that shared fears of Tehran might help forge formal relations...

A refugee crisis. Horrific floods. The vulnerability of girls and women. Pakistan has been in the middle of a widespread, profound upheaval that the humanitarian aid worker Shabnam Baloch has come to...

Monday is line dancing; Tuesday scrapbooking with friends; Wednesday caring for her two grandchildren. Martine Mirville’s itinerary is an advertisement for retirement in France. After decades of...

The place: a modest house at the end of a narrow street in Culver City, California. The problem: The house’s owner had been feeding bread to a population of rats, which had moved into her kitchen...