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The two countries, which criminalize homosexuality and impose severe punishments for it, were picked to play on a day celebrating L.G.B.T.Q. communities.

Officials initially weighed sending survivors of U.S. attacks on boats suspected of drug smuggling to a notorious prison in El Salvador, to keep them away from American courts.

The Ukrainian president told reporters that a vote could be held in 60 to 90 days if the country received security protections from the United States.

Kirsten Hillman, who came to Washington during the first Trump administration, had already extended her tenure once.

It’s not just humans who suffer from leading one another astray. So do fish, flies and even bacteria.

María Corina Machado is being honored for her push for democracy even as she backs President Trump’s military buildup and aggressive campaign against Venezuela.

Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media.

The measure is one of the most sweeping efforts in the world to safeguard children from the harms of the platforms.

The government says it will fast-track immigration for U.S. H-1B visa holders and spend more than $1 billion to attract researchers from the United States and the rest of the world.

The American national security strategy echoes the language of far-right parties. But hardliners across the Atlantic seem unimpressed.

The torn pieces of paper by Gao Zhen, a renowned artist jailed in China, show family portraits, memories of New York and expressions of faith. To his wife, they are love letters.

Israel’s top court gave the government further reprieve on a long-stalled petition seeking free access to Gaza. Critics say barring journalists denies the world a full picture of conditions there.

Brigitte Macron used a slur to criticize protesters who had interrupted a show by a French comedian accused of rape in 2021, in a case that was dismissed.

Born into an aristocratic British family, he turned his empathy and knowledge of the world’s largest land mammals to the cause of saving them from poachers.

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The Kremlin says any peace deal must cede to Russia the entire eastern Donbas region, including territory Ukraine still controls — a nonstarter for Kyiv.

The United States’ history in the region includes several about-faces, contradictions and missteps.

People escaped from a deadly border conflict, the authorities said, with some sheltering at a racetrack in Thailand and others near temples in Cambodia.

After decades of growth driven by diamond mining, Canada’s Northwest Territories are facing the closure of three major mines and wondering: What’s next?

The country is barring children under 16 from social media, with a sweeping federal law that is one of the first attempts at a nationwide regulation.