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Describing the transfer of the crew from the MV Touska cargo ship back to Iran as a ‘confidence-building measure’ between U.S. and Iranian officials, Pakistan again plays a mediating role.

Some see a clear explanation: Russia needs more troops, and young men in Africa desperately need jobs.

New A.I. tools are changing China’s entertainment industry and transforming one of its most popular genres: the microdrama.

The attack’s location and timing fueled concerns about potential collaboration between Somalia’s pirates and Yemen’s Houthi rebels amid the Iran war.

The average wait for a test in England and Scotland has hit 22 weeks, up from five weeks before the pandemic, leading to frustration and attempts to jump the line.

Narges Mohammadi, a prominent human rights activists, was taken to a hospital after collapsing following a heart problem in prison.

U.S. officials visited Venezuela after the first direct flight between the two countries since 2019. Our White House correspondent Tyler Pager describes how the main message of the trip was, in the words of a White House adviser “drill, baby, drill.”