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Three-quarters of the schools in the area around the capital will be closed, although officials say the health risk from asbestos found in colored sand is low.

He had been best known as a daring urban dirt-bike rider who had pulled off stunts at iconic sites in Paris, according to several friends.

China sent Coast Guard ships near disputed islands and warned travelers and students about safety risks in Japan. The escalation is over comments on Taiwan by Japan’s new prime minister.

Under the new rules, people granted asylum would have to wait 20 years, rather than the current five, before applying for permanent residency.

Under the Syrian dictator’s rule, the wives and children of rebels were seized as leverage. Some are now speaking about their trauma.

A market central to a Brazilian port city’s culture and cuisine got a makeover for the U.N. Climate Change Conference. The results have thrilled some but angered others.

Heavy rainfall and chilling winds have added to the challenges facing people still forced to live in tents in the devastated territory.

The chief executive of a Saudi firm says a Trump-branded project is “just a matter of time.” The Trump Organization’s major foreign partner is also signaling new Saudi deals.

Colombia was a top U.S. ally in Latin America until the Trump administration began deadly strikes in international waters. Now, one family wants justice.

Members of Mexico’s Gen Z, as well as older protesters, demonstrated on Saturday in the wake of a high-profile assassination and rising anger over persistent violence.

A former Liberal immigration minister said that Canada should drop an agreement that allows it to return asylum seekers who enter from the U.S.

Dozen of pieces used in a 1925 exhibition, including a whale-hunting kayak, will be returned to Canada early next month.

But left unspoken at a Vatican meeting with film stars were the deep divisions over issues like abortion and homosexuality.

Moscow’s attacks on gas supplies, the main source of warmth for most Ukrainian households, could plunge millions into the cold.

Sometimes we assume the people and things around us are neutral or hostile to our existence. What if the opposite could be true?

The ship, which was flying a Marshall Islands flag, was passing through the Strait of Hormuz when it lost contact with its managers.

Frankie, a young Caribbean Flamingo, flew 130 miles from captivity. Her keepers said they would likely have to leave her in France.

The explosion in the city of Srinagar happened as Indian officials were inspecting bomb-making material seized in an investigation into a terror network allegedly involving doctors.

With board members and executives deadlocked over how to respond, the news organization kept silent for days, allowing a controversy to snowball.

Dar Global bet big on the Trump name. It is now an essential foreign partner for the Trump Organization.