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McDonald’s customers in Australia, Japan and Hong Kong reported having trouble ordering at the fast-food restaurants on Friday, leading some restaurants to suspend online ordering and others to close entirely.The company said...

Why Russia’s election mattersRussians will begin voting for president today, but there is no suspense about the result: Vladimir Putin, 71, is certain to claim an overwhelming victory.The election, which will take...

A European humanitarian aid group said on Thursday that about 50 migrants died after their small boat deflated during an attempt to cross the central Mediterranean Sea.A ship belonging to the charity,...

Why does this election matter?The presidential vote in Russia, which begins Friday and lasts through Sunday, features the trappings of a horse race but is more of a predetermined, Soviet-style referendum.President Vladimir...

U.S. House moved a TikTok bill forwardThe House passed a bill that would force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to sell the popular video app or have it banned in...

The chief of staff to Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died last month in an Arctic penal colony, was attacked with a hammer and tear gas outside his home...

For centuries, trade with Europe was the main pillar of Russia’s economy.The war in Ukraine ended that, with Western sanctions and other restrictions increasingly cutting Russia off from European markets. In response,...

Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are welcoming Ramadan with little of the usual cheer. Amid Israel’s ongoing attacks in Gaza and rising violence in the West Bank, the holy month’s festive...

Not one to let “horrific” weather stop him, Craig Muir left his house in Hay-on-Wye in Powys, Wales, early Tuesday to take his usual walk up Hay Bluff when he spotted something...

When President Biden declared over the weekend that he was drawing a “red line” for Israel’s military action in Gaza, he appeared to be trying to raise the potential cost for Prime...