The launches were the first missile tests by North Korea since it fired an ICBM a month ago.

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India.

The actress, Taraneh Alidoosti, had urged people to speak out after the execution of a man involved in nationwide demonstrations.

Hit hard by economic stagnation and inflation, Argentines put hardship aside to watch Lionel Messi and their team take on France and celebrate.

The surrender of some stolen pieces came after talks between prosecutors and lawyers for the men charged with the theft.

Russian assaults are eroding Ukrainians’ access to heat, light and water as temperatures drop.

Lionel Messi left Argentina when he was 13 and has had a complicated relationship with the nation since. But this World Cup has changed things.

The mayor of Kyiv said that water was back on and that the city’s subway service had resumed. President Volodymyr Zelensky urged businesses to help set up more “invincibility centers” for the public.

Dozens of top officials have flown to Qatar to cheer for teams while talking shop. The event has magnified the tiny Gulf nation’s role as a diplomatic broker.

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Secret Russian battle plans, intercepts, and interviews with Russian soldiers and Kremlin confidants revealed new details of how Vladimir Putin botched his invasion of Ukraine.

In Argentina, the song 'Muchachos, Ahora Nos Volvimos A Ilusionar' has become the anthem of the country's run to the World Cup final.

Norimitsu Onishi, a New York Times reporter, traveled to Hérouxville, Quebec, to learn what had happened in the 15 years since the town passed its xenophobic immigration code.

“We now want as many immigrants as possible,” said Bernard Thompson, the mayor of Hérouxville, Quebec, a onetime supporter of the town’s anti-immigrant code.

A panel of experts has spent more than a decade deliberating on how, and whether, to mark a momentous new epoch in geologic time: our own.

In Leo Varadkar’s first stint as prime minister, he embodied for many his country’s move into modernity. But after several missteps, he now takes up the role for a second time, with the glow of optimism dimmed.

Voters will choose a new Parliament, but under revised rules that vastly dilute the influence of political parties that many blame for sabotaging the North African nation’s 10-year experiment with democracy.

Searching for allies against Ukraine, Russia now presents itself as the leader of a global culture war against moral depravity. It’s not working.

Dozens of missiles knocked out heat and electricity systems around the country including in Kyiv, where two-thirds of its residents had no heat or water.

For the first time, detainees picked their own winner in an offshoot of the Goncourt, France’s top literary honor.

As of Friday, officers had stopped 6,301 guns at airport security checkpoints nationwide, according to the Transportation Security Administration. More than 88% of the firearms were loaded.

The research was conducted in part when older variants of the coronavirus were spreading. Other factors may have influenced the conclusions.

The physicist and architect of the American atomic bomb was stripped of his security clearance in 1954 after what is now called a flawed investigation.

Two government ministers resigned after the new president, Dina Boluarte, deployed the military to crack down on the demonstrations that have convulsed the country.

The official, previously identified as a senior operative with the Wagner Group, was hospitalized in the capital of the Central African Republic, according to the Russian embassy.

Researcher spent five decades studying the Pacific Northwest's endangered killer whales and help ended their captivity at marine parks.

The unrest started after the ouster of President Pedro Castillo, who tried to dissolve Congress and was arrested.

Ngozi Fulani, who runs a charity for abused women, said a palace aide, Susan Hussey, pressed her on where she was from, dismissing Britain as an answer. Ms. Hussey resigned over the episode.

The European Union implemented a new sanctions package on Russia that officials hope will significantly relieve food-security problems facing developing and poor countries.

With the appointment of Joe Kennedy III, President Biden hopes a marquee name will aid in promoting economic development in the struggling country.

It was the ninth large-scale wave of missiles to be aimed at Ukrainian infrastructure this fall. Officials said 76 missiles had been fired, and all but 16 were shot down.

One of the Chinese capital’s designated crematoria for Covid-19 patients has been flooded with dead bodies in the wake of the country’s loosening of pandemic restrictions.

After spending eight days at Fort Sam Houston following her release from a Russian penal colony, the star athlete forecast her return to pro basketball.

Negotiators from around the world are meeting in Canada in an effort to halt, and reverse, staggering declines in wildlife.

Ms. Jolie, who had worked with the organization for 21 years, said she wanted to connect more directly with refugees and local groups.

The concert was supposed to be one of Mexico’s largest, sold out months before. Instead, one of the world’s biggest stars played to a half empty floor.

A lasting drive for change will challenge the foundations of the Islamic Republic but isn’t an immediate threat to the government in Tehran, Western and Middle East security officials say.

The official, previously identified as a senior operative with the Wagner Group, was hospitalized in the capital of the Central African Republic, according to the Russian embassy.

The police responded to reports that a large crowd had tried to force its way into the O2 Academy Brixton, one of Britain’s most popular music venues.

Prosecutors say the glamorous lifestyle of a European lawmaker masked a Qatari corruption scandal. It exposed how vulnerable Brussels is to foreign influence.

A 50-foot-high, 264,000-gallon cylindrical tank called AquaDom, housed in a Radisson in the German capital, spectacularly collapsed, sending waves of water through the building and onto the street.

Benjamin Netanyahu is close to forming a coalition with Israel’s far right and the Arab states that normalized ties in 2020 appear unconcerned.

Easing Covid protocols and promoting property reflect a new growth push under President Xi Jinping.

The country’s central bank said inflation, at 12 percent, risked rising because of a growing budget deficit.

The Japanese cabinet approved the first update to the country’s official security strategy in nine years, elevating Beijing over North Korea as the top threat.

Ramzan Kadyrov, once an anti-Russian rebel, now gets billions from Moscow and plays a key role in the battle for Ukraine.

A giant cylindrical aquarium that had become a landmark in the years since the fall of the Berlin Wall burst, raining one million liters of water and 1,500 exotic fish on a busy crossing.

Firefighters managed to put out the blaze, in a seven-floor building near Lyon, in central France. It was not immediately clear how the fire had started.

The Biden administration is pushing electric vehicles as the future. So are major automakers. But how will that play out in red states? We travel to small-town Indiana to find out

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