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Politicians, oil giants and climate activists hang on his every word. The Trump administration has blasted him. How did Fatih Birol get so big?

A boat said to be carrying people from the Rohingya ethnic minority capsized, and another was missing. At least seven bodies were recovered.

At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.

A 3-year-old from Colombia died when a boat carrying migrants back to South America capsized off Panama’s Caribbean Coast, an official said. Another child drowned on the same migrant route in February.

In 2019, President Trump sent U.S. commandos to a small village in Syria to kill the leader of the Islamic State. On Monday, Syria’s president, a former associate of that leader, will take another step to strengthen his alliance with the White House.

A Times investigation found that children are routinely deprived of birth certificates, medical care and education. Diplomats and police officers turned the mothers away.

China will require licenses for export of 13 chemicals used to make the deadly drug, another indicator of thawing tensions between the world’s two largest economies

We pieced together the details, from Riyadh to Nairobi.

A Times investigation found that children are routinely deprived of birth certificates, medical care and education. Diplomats and police officers turned the mothers away.

Indonesia’s president bestowed the honor on the dictator Suharto, who died in 2008, in what many said was a stunning move of revisionist history.

This year’s U.N. climate talks are being held in Brazil. So far, they’ve been noteworthy for who isn’t attending.

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.

Typhoon Fung-wong made landfall on the main island of Luzon, prompting the evacuation of more than one million people, just days after an earlier storm killed over 200.

Hamas returned to Israel the remains of Lt. Hadar Goldin, who was killed in a 2014 war in Gaza.

Facing Iran’s worst drought in 60 years, the country’s president warned that the capital might need to be evacuated, and some locals promoted cloud-theft conspiracy theories.

Argentina has emerged as a surprisingly prominent destination for L.G.B.T.Q. Russians escaping President Vladimir V. Putin’s escalating anti-gay repression.

People with rooftop solar panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said.

Pounding rain and winds of over 150 miles per hour left a trail of devastation in the state of Paraná.

A 6.7-magnitude quake struck off Japan’s coast early Sunday evening, prompting a tsunami advisory, which was later lifted.

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