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His wide-ranging work drew on field research in his native Sri Lanka as well as his extensive study of English literature and Christian mysticism.

For 25 years, France has said schools must teach sex ed. Now the government is at last putting a curriculum in place.

The sentence made the far-right leader ineligible for five years, excluding her from the 2027 election unless she can secure a more favorable outcome on appeal.

The far-right French politician was a leading candidate to become the country’s next president, but has now been barred from running for public office for five years.

The war in Gaza has often distracted from an internal battle between Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and other parts of the state. On Monday, that domestic conflict careened into full view.

The Bangkok building razed by Friday’s quake employed men and women who had found love at work. Despite glimmers of hope, many were still beneath the rubble.

The assignment was part of a new program aimed at suspected Russian sabotage. None has occurred since NATO began patrols.

Nearly eight years after the coup that brought him to power, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is under threat from opponents within his governing ZANU-PF party, who have urged mass protests.

Icebreakers are corny, corporate get-to-know-you exercises. But there’s something thrilling in dispensing with small talk.

Without advance notice to Canada, the U.S. president put the auto industry into turmoil with a 25 percent tariff.

The authorities said that thousands of buildings had been damaged, including about 150 mosques and pagodas.

Hamas said it had accepted a proposal for a new cease-fire, which would see some hostages released from captivity in Gaza. But details were elusive.

After a series of suspicious cable cuttings feared to be Russian sabotage, NATO began a new mission called Baltic Sentry to patrol the Baltic Sea. Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter with the International desk at The New York Times, takes us aboard one of these patrol flights.

Quakers in Britain said the raid, in which six youth activists unaffiliated with the religious group were arrested, “clearly shows what happens when a society criminalizes protest.”

An earthquake’s devastation in Myanmar.

Each new crisis, whether over Ukraine or tariffs, has made the Italian prime minister’s balancing act that much harder.

A verdict Monday in an embezzlement trial is seen as a test of the country’s democracy — and the rule of law.

Plus, skateboarders in the sky.

While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.

Federal authorities in several countries have recently nabbed several caches of weapons headed to Haiti, but armed violence continues to rise there, with gangs increasingly obtaining high-caliber firearms and ammunition.