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Israeli spies kidnapped and killed Iranians. They were convinced that Tehran was to blame for a fallen airman. Alternative theories got little attention, until now.
Prosecutors and government officials believe Iran or its proxies are behind a series of security breaches and threats in Britain and Europe, unsettling the region.
Bear 122 has survived a train, cars and rival bears. Some fear the biggest threat to his life now is his own fame.
A concert by the singer Gabito Ballesteros was suspended after he sang songs that supposedly glorify cartel culture. The action has renewed a debate over culture and free speech.
Some were Asia-based Europeans chasing nostalgia. Others were Americans eager to experience their first edition of the song contest.
While pulsating electro-pop tends to win in Europe, the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest in Asia will mostly feature torch songs accompanied by traditional instruments.
Games behind paywalls and exorbitant costs forcing a drop in attendance
Russell Brand and the TV personality David Walliams both persuaded courts to suppress misconduct allegations against them. Some say the libel laws need to change.
The answer involves a heating pad, a bomb scare and animal fats. Police are still searching for an Italian man facing extradition on terrorism charges from the 1970s.
Leo XIV returned to the city in Peru where he served as bishop for eight years, drawing large crowds who remembered him before he was pope.
A crackdown on entry by some citizens of African countries by the U.S. immigration officials means that some contestants might not get visas in time to attend the pageant in Puerto Rico this month.
A wave of assaults in Britain and elsewhere in the spring sowed fear across Europe. Prosecutors shed new light on how Iran took aim at U.S. allies.
Gadi Eisenkot sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu days after the Israeli leader attacked Arab lawmakers in a divisive speech.
Several countries that rely heavily on fossil fuels want to delay the next round of scientific assessments that governments use to inform their climate policies.
After coveting a seat in the Ukraine war discussions, Europe is poised to get one. Deciding who should speak for the continent is its own negotiation.
The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has a new epicenter, one largely isolated from aid by an armed group that has killed and kidnapped aid workers. Declan Walsh, our chief Africa correspondent, reports from a town where health workers are struggling to contain the outbreak.
From India to France, the implicit meritocratic bargain that underwrote stable societies by providing advancement to new generations is breaking down.
Former Israeli and U.S. ambassadors, lawmakers and analysts largely agree on steps Gadi Eisenkot could take if he becomes prime minister. But they are risky.
Centrists want alternatives to a matchup between the far right and far left in the 2027 presidential election. Teddy Riner, the judo champion, is in, while Christine Lagarde is less likely.
Critics say Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, and his department have shielded Nvidia as concerns have grown over A.I. chip sales to firms like Megaspeed.
After years in elite police units, he drew scrutiny from human rights groups for selling arms and providing other services to unsavory governments. He was 80.
The revelations surrounding Jensen Huang, who resigned from Nvidia over extramarital affairs, inspired social media posts using the very technology his company helped develop.
The prosecutor, who faces arrest in Mexico after allowing C.I.A. officers into Chihuahua state, is under the protection of the U.S. government, according to U.S. and Mexican officials.
The officer, who served at a NATO base in Britain, is expected to be charged in the coming days, two officials said.
For more than 30 years, the paper covered an increasingly repressive state under Vladimir Putin.
Leaders at COP31 are confronting a new reality as global warming enters the
The Kremlin, taking a hard line, is pushing to widen negotiations to overhaul European security structures.
The Ukrainian government has opened up a trove of five million battlefield videos to defense companies at home and abroad.
The Iranian authorities are pursuing diaspora dissidents and journalists, extending the government
Seven Chinese tourists, a dozen villagers and a couple of journalists forded streams and bushwhacked to the downed plane of Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese admiral. Machetes proved handy.
Grammy-nominated songwriter Vivir Quintana is known throughout Latin America for giving voice to women who fought back against domestic violence.
Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis was attacked despite the 2025 cease-fire. A surgeon, an official and a disabled patient were among the victims, a witness said.
In Peru, where Leo XIV lived for two decades and became a citizen, the pope was met by President Keiko Fujimori, whose father
The ruling, which could affect similar laws in other British Commonwealth countries, has spotlighted a legal system still intertwined with a former colonial power.
GPS-linked devices have been insisting that Ukrainians are in Lima, the Peruvian capital. The culprit is a jamming system built to thwart Russian airstrikes.
A Times reporter who covers financial markets helps us make sense of tech turbulence.
Washington wants to intensify its economic pressure campaign on Iran by closing its land borders. Neighboring states, fearing economic fallout, are pushing back.
The milestone is further evidence that African countries have mostly succeeded in preventing community transmission and isolating the small number of cases that have come in from Congo.
As a round of negotiations ended in Abu Dhabi, President Trump
Video showed demonstrators from a pro-Palestinian protest throwing projectiles at former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. after he attended an event at Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday.
Workers in a wide range of industries walked off the job to protest rising rents and stagnant wages, which have become central issues in the campaign.
Pope Leo spent nearly two decades in Peru, rising to bishop and becoming a citizen. But many Peruvians have turned away from Catholicism, seeking a more expressive and direct connection to God.
The 2026 Youth Olympic Games are taking place in Senegal, where the beaches and streets are teeming with sports fans and fitness fanatics.
Wildlife authorities said evidence, including animal DNA, conclusively linked a sow and her three cubs to the deaths of two women along a hiking trail in British Columbia.