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A spokesman for the Nigerian government said the “remaining” students taken from a Catholic school had been freed, but the local diocese said that only a “second batch” had been released.

A Venezuela-bound vessel fled after rebuffing an attempt by the Coast Guard to seize it, the latest twist in the escalating U.S. pressure campaign against the Maduro government.

President Trump, who has long said he wants to “get” the semiautonomous Danish territory, tapped Louisiana’s governor for the new position. Officials in Greenland and Denmark expressed outrage.

Palestinian Christians are reviving their seasonal public celebrations, hoping to bring light and holiday spirit at the end of a gloomy year in the West Bank.

Intelligence authorities in the Philippines say the father and son apparently slipped out of Davao City during their monthlong stay, but details remain sketchy.

Proposals that emerged in recent negotiations with the United States were “rather unconstructive,” a Kremlin official said on Sunday.

President Javier Milei is eliminating barriers to what had been a closed-off economy, moving in the opposite direction of his main political ally, President Trump.

Mr. Kimmel will speak out against fascism and about the importance of free speech in the holiday address, according to a Channel 4 spokesman.

The award-winning Puerto Rican artist, the most-streamed on the planet, is performing eight concerts in Mexico. People flocked from all over the world, including the United States.

The latest vessel to be targeted by the United States in its pressure campaign on Venezuela was sending distress signals as it headed northeast from the Caribbean into the Atlantic.

Parenting is closely studied, but sibling relationships have gotten much less attention.

Thousands gathered a week after gunmen killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration. But hints of political divisions and anti-immigration rhetoric have emerged.

In what prosecutors say was an inside job, copper pots, porcelain and Baccarat Champagne glasses were stolen from the inventory of the Élysée Palace.

Around a dozen gunmen opened fire at bar patrons, the police said. A manhunt for the unknown assailants was underway.

The Chinese government once focused on political dissidents and exiled activists. Now, federal officials say, it is targeting artists in the United States whose creative protests test its tolerance.

Ales Bialiatski, who shared the Nobel in 2022, described long hours of backbreaking work and stints in solitary confinement.

Inside a tornado-hardened office in Texas, 1,700 American Airlines employees manage the carrier’s operations, responding to bad weather, plane trouble and ailing passengers.

Armed guards, bollards and secretive precautions became part of life amid antisemitic attacks and blurred lines between anger at Israel and hatred of Jews.

The proliferation of illegal firearms from the United States has fueled a spike in gun violence in Canada, where most guns used in crimes are smuggled across the border.

The Pompidou Center is the place to see contemporary art in Paris. Or it was, until curators put its astonishing collection into storage.