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The attacker likely had links to the Islamic State and was possibly targeting a Christian church in the center of Aleppo, according to a government spokesman.

Customs agents have broad authority to search the electronic devices of travelers entering and leaving the U.S. Here are tips for keeping your data safe.

The repatriation of the Cambodian soldiers captured in July comes on the heels of a 72-hour cease-fire that could end months of border skirmishes.

Protests have erupted in Aceh Province on the northern tip of Sumatra island, where anger and frustration are mounting over what many see as inadequate relief efforts by a distracted government.

Yonaguni, a tiny Japanese island near Taiwan, is getting soldiers, radar and missiles. As China’s dispute with Tokyo escalates, some residents are worried.

A leader for three terms, she traded the country’s leadership with Sheikh Hasina, the head of another political dynasty, over decades. She was believed to be 80.

The American and Israeli leaders showed few signs of disagreement after meeting in Florida, giving no public indication of their growing strains over Gaza, Syria and other issues.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has a series of vexing choices to make in the year ahead on issues including Gaza, conscription and a judicial overhaul, with elections looming.

The U.S. president said after a meeting at Mar-a-Lago that a deal was “maybe very close.” But a joint U.S.-Ukraine proposal appeared unfinished, as Russia rejected several ideas.

The voting for Parliament is almost sure to favor the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls. Still, some see them as the most pragmatic way to try to improve conditions.

Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a dazzling show he designed in an era of science disinformation and denial.

The 72-hour cease-fire could pave the way for an end to the fighting, which has killed dozens and displaced thousands over nearly three weeks.

Records show how government departments played down residents’ warnings about corrupt practices and substandard materials that fueled the deadly blaze.

She was the first to crawl, the first to cut a tooth, the first to recognize her name, and the last to die. And, like her sisters, she resented being exploited as part of a global sensation.

Detty December means a month of “back to back to back” partying in Nigeria’s megacity. Ruth Maclean, the West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, attends for the first time.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, known as the R.S.S., has survived bans and vilification to emerge as the force reshaping India’s secular republic into a Hindu nation.

The first draft essentially called for Ukraine’s surrender. The revised version includes the security guarantees Kyiv wants to prevent future Russian aggression.

She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.

The country’s production of nuclear warheads has slowed, but its missiles may be poised to strike back fast in case of an attack, an annual assessment found.

While the new restrictions on firearms have broad support, new police powers to crack down on some protests were criticized as limits on civil liberties.

Built during a cosmopolitan era in the 1960s, the Ariana was closed when the Taliban were in power but still standing. Now it’s making way for a shopping mall.

After years of planning for cars that would let drivers take their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road, China’s regulators have become more cautious.

A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the ship seizures were meant to force Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro from power.

The attack appeared to be the latest targeted assassination of a senior military official inside Russia’s borders.

In what prosecutors say was an inside job, copper pots, porcelain and Baccarat Champagne glasses were stolen from the inventory of the Élysée Palace.

Proposals that emerged in recent negotiations with the United States were “rather unconstructive,” a Kremlin official said on Sunday.

Mr. Kimmel will speak out against fascism and about the importance of free speech in the holiday address, according to a Channel 4 spokesman.

Around a dozen gunmen opened fire at random at bar patrons. The police said they launched a manhunt to find the unknown assailants.

The attacker killed at last week’s Hanukkah celebration in Australia came from a Muslim area whose residents have long gone abroad to seek better lives.

The alleged gunmen in the shooting, Sajid Akram, 50, and his son, Naveed Akram, 24, were from Bonnyrigg, a diverse, multilingual suburb miles from Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

The alleged gunmen in the shooting, Sajid Akram, 50 and his son, Naveed Akram, 24, were from Bonnyrigg, a diverse, multilingual suburb miles from Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

Investigators said they were unsure of the attacker’s motives. But clues pointed to an isolated and increasingly troubled life, and no accomplices.

No one knows the true toll of the massacre, and the city remains isolated. Now, refugee camps in Chad are flooded with newly displaced Sudanese.

A reordering of the rules of trade, set on top of transformational change in technology, demographics and climate, is remaking jobs, politics and lives.

Workers at the budget hotel in the southern Philippines, a region that has long battled Islamist insurgencies, said the two men rarely left their room.

Barham Salih, who fought against Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq and later served as president, was chosen to lead the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.

The European Council convenes on Thursday, and at stake is a contentious deal to back Ukraine and its war effort in 2026 and 2027.

He won the prestigious award for his daring coverage of the Vietnam War for The Associated Press, and went on to cover conflicts for CNN for nearly two decades.

Israel’s granting of an export permit is the final step to allow the deal, first announced by energy companies in August, to proceed.

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.

Sixty years ago, half a million Indonesians were killed in anti-Communist purges. On Bali, resorts and clubs were built atop mass graves.

The president announced the move using bellicose language, in an escalation of his pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s leader. But its scope and economic effects were not clear.

Experts tracked the sea lion, which had a rope around its neck, for over a month before they were able to catch up to it in Cowichan Bay, Canada.

He said the people in the house were relatively new to the area and largely kept to themselves.

More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, authorities say.

The two men who killed 15 people on Sunday were driven by “Islamic State ideology,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Australia’s public broadcaster.

The European Union has mounted an “air bridge” effort, with at least eight aid flights planned to Sudan. But getting supplies to the areas with the most dire need is an enormous challenge.

José Antonio Kast won the race on Sunday after a contest marked by concerns over security and immigration.

The New South Wales police commissioner did not give the men’s names, but said the elder was 50, had licenses for six firearms, and had been killed at the scene. The son was in critical condition.

Anyone in the area should take shelter, the police said. They declined to elaborate, and details of the shooting were not immediately clear.

Anyone in the area should take shelter, the police said. They declined to elaborate and details of the incident were not immediately clear.

Opponents of AfD lawmakers say that their push to publish sensitive details about national security could benefit Russian military planning.

The conflict appeared to have continued unabated on Saturday morning, a day after President Trump said a cease-fire was supposed to have resumed.

An American firm with experience in special operations spirited María Corina Machado, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, out of the country in a secretive land, sea and air operation.

The U.S. Treasury said that maintaining sanctions against Justice Alexandre de Moraes was no longer in the interests of the United States.

A video of the king discussing his “recovery journey” will air on Channel 4 on Friday, British media reported. He was diagnosed with an unspecified type of cancer last year.

The company said the new law, which makes it illegal for children under 16 to have social media accounts, infringes on children’s rights.

The United States is escalating its pressure campaign on Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, after seizing an oil tanker off the coast.

María Corina Machado, who spent over a year in hiding in Venezuela, greeted supporters in Oslo, hours after her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in her name.

An environmental group is suing, saying federal law requires an image of public lands, not the president.

The fighting in Congo continues despite Washington’s claims to have brokered an end to the conflict.

It’s not just humans who suffer from leading one another astray. So do fish, flies and even bacteria.

María Corina Machado is being honored for her push for democracy even as she backs President Trump’s military buildup and aggressive campaign against Venezuela.

Chinese exports are flooding the developing world, and the social consequences are bound to be profound.

The country’s attorney general said he had issued an international arrest warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández.

Poland has charged a little-known Russian opposition figure with espionage and participating in a bomb plot. His friends are perplexed.

The plane, carrying about 50 Iranians and other deportees, took off from Arizona on Sunday, under a deal the Trump administration reached with Iran two months ago.

Officials told the Indian news media that the fire tore through a nightclub in the southwestern state of Goa, a popular tourist destination.

President Trump backed Nasry Asfura days before the Nov. 30 election and denounced his opponents. In a close race, that has potentially tipped the scales.

Two people were rescued from a half-sunken boat off the island of Crete on Saturday evening, but 17 others died in the wreck.

Scientists fear warming is driving a collapse in the ocean currents that shape climate far and wide. The ice-choked waters off Greenland might hold the key.

Beijing is curbing Japanese movies, music and art as it seeks to punish Tokyo for its support of Taiwan.

President Trump’s new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians.

An armed group backed by the United Arab Emirates has pushed into the oil-rich province of Hadramout, a move that could reignite conflict in Yemen after years of a stalemate.

President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.

The automaker switched production from Ontario in a bid to please President Trump. But the company defaulted on contracts covering hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance, Canada said.

She says Taiwan must embrace its Chinese heritage to avoid war. Her critics say she wants to steer the island into Beijing’s orbit.

The Trump administration, which crippled Russia’s oil sales to India with sanctions, will be watching Mr. Putin’s talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The president wanted Moscow and Kyiv to come to terms by Thanksgiving. Negotiations are now stalled, leaving the White House to decide if an agreement is possible anytime soon.

The separatists were battling to secure the region’s oil fields, residents and the group’s officials said. Their swift advance could be a turning point in Yemen’s decade-long civil war.

The authorities quickly arrested critics demanding accountability, signaling an expansive use of the security law to silence dissent over nonpolitical tragedies.

President Lee Jae Myung reaffirmed wanting to build nuclear-powered submarines at home, despite President Trump’s suggestion that they be built in the United States.

Critics say the nets harm marine life and aren’t the best way to keep swimmers safe. Recent shark attacks have complicated a plan to remove some of them.

The trip comes days before the anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and as Lebanon is navigating the cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel.

Honduras was on edge after tallies showed two candidates separated by about 500 votes. Then President Trump claimed that officials were rigging results.

In Moscow, Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, is expected to present President Vladimir V. Putin with a revised proposal to end the war in Ukraine.

The British justice secretary, David Lammy, is set to announce the contentious move as part of a broader overhaul of the criminal justice system, amid a yearslong backlog.

Joaquín Guzmán López admitted to having the once-untouchable drug kingpin Ismael Zambada García abducted and flown to the United States, among a sweeping set of other crimes.

In Budapest, political disputes and aging infrastructure have led to cascading problems, and prolonged closings, at several of the city’s beloved baths.