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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.

The move is an escalation of military operations and a pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s leader. But its scope and economic impact are not clear.

Seven Kenyans were detained for working in the country illegally, officials said. The arrests came amid rising tensions after the United States prioritized white Afrikaners seeking asylum.

Survivors of the St. Mary’s Catholic School abduction in Nigeria recall their harrowing ordeal and release.

In public, the White House says it is confronting Venezuela to curb drug trafficking. Behind the scenes, gaining access to the country’s vast oil reserves is a priority.

A firm controlled by a businessman tied to a seized tanker carrying Venezuelan oil has sold millions of barrels from a Chevron-operated oil field.

The Australian authorities said the 24-year-old man, who had been shot by the police, woke from a coma on Tuesday afternoon.

The Bondi Beach massacre has people fearing more anti-Jewish violence — and an Islamophobic backlash. But there are reasons to think stability will prevail.

The police found two homemade Islamic State flags in the car of the suspects, a 50-year-old man and his 24-year-old son.