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The release of activists like Ilya Yashin gives new hope to a movement in which various groups are often at war with each other. But many have doubts.

A weight lifter walked away from his sport after a bitter loss in 2012. He and other athletes, including a U.S. figure skating team, will receive their medals in Paris.

The selection of Yahya Sinwar, a prime target of Israeli forces, to replace the assassinated Ismail Haniyeh consolidates authority in the hands of a hard-liner who is in hiding.

Hamas announced that Yahya Sinwar would take over as the group’s political leader after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran.

Venezuela’s government believed its control of all levers of power would give the country’s authoritarian president an Election Day victory. A rebellion by its supporters undid the plan.

Plus, how breaking made it to the Olympics.

The new government was being formed a day after Bangladesh’s longtime leader, facing fierce protests, fled the country.

The herbicide, used widely on crops including broccoli and onions, can cause low birth weight and impaired brain development, regulators said.

Noah Lyles came from behind to beat out Kishane Thompson of Jamaica.

Arisa Trew vaulted into first place with her final run, winning gold.

Days after an angry crowd marauded through Sunderland, people in the industrial port city are trying to make sense of what just happened.

A judge said the phrase, used at a pro-Palestinian rally in Berlin days after the Oct. 7 attacks, “could only be understood as a denial of Israel’s right to exist.”

Weeks after Iran elected a reformist leader, the authorities executed Reza Rasaei, who was arrested during protests that swept the country in 2022.

The recent prisoner exchange between Russia and the U.S. — the biggest and most complex since the Cold War — was a diplomatic chess game that required patience and creativity. Mark Mazzetti, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, explains. An earlier version of a map used in this video referred incorrectly to the status of Crimea by including it as part of Russia. Russia seized the peninsula in 2014, and most countries do not recognize Crimea as Russian territory.

A few blocks from the table tennis venue, a restaurant has become an unofficial (and unlikely) clubhouse for fans, team officials and athletes.

The attack late Monday resembled previous ones carried out by Iraqi armed groups, backed by Iran, which have targeted the base repeatedly over the past nine months.

Hezbollah’s conflict with Israel has already damaged south Lebanon. Now it could escalate, regardless of what anyone else in Lebanon thinks.

Senior Israeli security officials have grown frustrated with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his perceived resistance to a swift cease-fire deal with Hamas.

Ukrainian troops are engaged in a harsh struggle for Toretsk, a strategic city in eastern Ukraine that has been under relentless assault by Russian forces.

All elite athletes make changes to their lives to keep their careers moving forward. For the American distance runner Grant Fisher, the key to success was in his past.