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By reaching back to Maoist tactics of “rectification,” the Chinese leader is signaling that control over the gun requires a state of perpetual cleansing.

The social media site was the subject of user complaints early Monday.

The day before nuclear talks were set to resume, Iran conducted live drills in the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway for oil and gas shipments.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said a network involving museum employees and tour guides had been operating for a decade.

Fans have fallen hard for plush dolls representing Tina and Milo, the mascots of Italy’s Winter Games.

Sedanka has only 250 residents, but dozens of its men left for the front. It is wondering whether recognition that the government promised will ever arrive.

The social media site was the subject of user complaints early Monday.

The country is hoping its new amnesty for undocumented immigrants will avoid a public backlash.

The toxin was found in the body of the Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny, who died in prison two years ago, five governments said, challenging Russia’s official account.

Most had court orders protecting them from removal to their home countries, so they were sent to detention in Cameroon.

It hosted the 1956 Olympics and had a role in a James Bond movie. Now Cortina’s beloved stadium is packed with raucous fans, and the occasional cheating scandal, in curling.

Nicolás Maduro’s capture and talk of oil investment have pushed prices higher, even as brokers say enthusiasm is outpacing demand in a weak economy.

Eurasia Group, the geopolitical risk consultancy run by Ian Bremmer, gets into the political satire game with its Instagram show “Puppet Regime.”

A Chinese king’s infatuation with a woman was seen as the reason that a golden age collapsed. Evidence suggests climate change and internal strife played bigger roles.

She was repeatedly drugged by her husband and raped in a series of crimes that shocked the world. Pelicot talked to us about her new memoir.

Rights groups are investigating the death of Ali Rahbar as a potential extrajudicial killing. Iran denies executions have taken place.

Canada plans to unveil a new strategy that will shift its current reliance on American companies to Canadian military suppliers.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio appealed to European leaders in Munich by stressing Christian and cultural bonds that are no longer universal.

As the U.S. message veered from shared heritage and values to shared interests and back again, Europeans wondered what kind of alliance they were left with.

Bangladesh held the first national elections since a student revolution in the summer of 2024. Standing outside the Dhaka university, the epicenter of the student movement, New York Times correspondent Anupreeta Das explains what the recent elections mean for the country’s future.