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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 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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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.

Hundreds of weather balloons sent to Lithuania this year have disrupted flights and stirred alarm in a sabotage campaign against a NATO state.

Up to 400 documents have been damaged by the leak, according to Francis Steinbock, the deputy administrator of the museum. But no works of art were affected.

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

The 7.6-magnitude quake struck in waters off Aomori Prefecture on Japan’s main island, Honshu. It triggered a tsunami warning, which was later lifted.

The attorney general said he had asked Interpol to detain Juan Orlando Hernández, who was freed from a U.S. prison last week.

Chinese exports are flooding the developing world, and the social consequences are bound to be profound.

After deadly cross-border military clashes, the Pakistani and Afghan governments have locked their populations in a trade war threatening the livelihoods of millions.

A traditional Japanese festival is being adapted for poodles and Pomeranians, amid a booming pet industry and a dearth of children.

Containers of bananas, avocados and plantains fell off a cargo ship off the Isle of Wight. A soggy fruit harvest ensued.

The abduction of over 260 children from a Catholic school last month was the latest in a recent spate of kidnappings in the country.

Russell Bonner Bentley III, 64, who was living in the occupied Donbas region of Ukraine, was beaten and tortured to death after he was suspected of being an American saboteur, investigators said.