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France’s Senate approved President Emmanuel Macron’s widely unpopular plans to raise the retirement age by two years on Thursday, setting the stage for a decisive, if far more unpredictable, vote in the...

Pentagon Chief Says He Spoke With Russia Over Drone Incident

The British government ramped up its efforts to get more people into work and make Britain an enticing investment destination as it announced on Wednesday an expansion of free child care, extended...

Tech companies, like Meta and Apple, sell users the promise of privacy. They say the encryption on their smartphones and apps will keep user data safe.But there is one powerful form of...

Defense officials from Ukraine’s closest allies will attend a virtual meeting on Wednesday to discuss how to supply Ukraine’s military as it blows through ammunition faster than producers can meet demand.Wednesday’s meeting...

Mounds of food waste piled in view of the Eiffel Tower. Small cobblestone streets lined with overflowing garbage bins. The bank of the Seine skirted by heaps of trash.For more than a...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been fought mostly in a series of grinding land battles, but for the governments in Kyiv and Moscow the Black Sea also has been a vital theater...

It’s a mystery that has intrigued and confounded scholars for centuries: Who, exactly, was Leonardo da Vinci’s mother?A few facts are known. Her name was Caterina, and sometime in 1451, she had...

GENEVA — The United Nations continued on Tuesday to try to broker a deal that would allow Ukraine to keep exporting its grain past Russian naval vessels blockading the Black Sea, after...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — On an artificial island on the edge of the Persian Gulf, Dima Tutkov feels safe.There are none of the anti-Russian attitudes that he hears about in Europe....