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Barham Salih, who fought against Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq and later served as president, was chosen to lead the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.

Christian Turner’s appointment comes as the United States and Britain’s relationship is being tested amid a number of foreign policy issues.

The government has greatly restricted the number of work and study permits issued to foreigners following an unpopular immigration boom during the pandemic.

Frédéric Péchier, an anesthesiologist, was found guilty of poisoning 30 patients, of whom 12 died.

New legislation will be drafted to target those who promote violence and to increase penalties for hate speech, the prime minister said Thursday.

Amid sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U. S. dimming, President Masoud Pezeshkian has apparently thrown up his hands.

He won the award for his daring coverage of the Vietnam War for The Associated Press. He went on to cover conflicts for CNN for nearly two decades.

A paramilitary attack in April was one of the most brutal of Sudan’s civil war. Now, hunger is spreading as Western aid cuts have reduced U.N. rations.

A Finnish beauty queen was stripped of her crown for a gesture that appeared to mock Asians. Finnish lawmakers copied her, and the prime minister is now trying to defuse the controversy.

Ahmed Al-Sharaa, a former Al Qaeda ally, is now president of Syria. We look at his transformation, and whether he can transform his country, too.

The police in London and Manchester said they would take a “more assertive” approach after the Bondi Beach massacre and a terrorist attack at a British synagogue.

Dmitri N. Kozak had worked with President Vladimir V. Putin for three decades before quitting in September. His associates described his break with the Russian leader.

Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.

Israel’s granting of an export permit is the final step to allow the deal, first announced by energy companies in August, to proceed.

Dash cam footage has emerged of Boris and Sofia Gurman trying to disarm one of the suspected attackers. The couple were killed, but their bravery was lauded by Australians.

New research suggests that having a pet can actually make people more likely to become parents.

ISIS is too weakened to seize territory, experts said, but its ability to churn out propaganda aimed at provoking violence against the West persists.

Two hundred million years ago, prosauropods walked the earth. They left something behind.

President Trump said the United States wanted to reclaim expropriated oil assets, setting off a nationalist reaction in a country where the resource holds a mythical status.

The government said it would pay about $760 million to allow young Britons to take part in 2027.