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In the early 2000s, a top member of the Sinaloa drug cartel said he intercepted a rival organization’s shipment of cocaine as it passed through the Mexican state of Chiapas.After the drugs...

While there are more than six million people worldwide with sickle cell, most of whom living in sub-Saharan Africa, the initial launches are expected to focus on tens of thousands of patients...

Around the time Egypt’s currency hit an all-time low, an article this month on the country’s sharp economic downturn quietly slipped off the front page of one of its flagship newspapers.As the...

LOS ANGELES — It was a party to celebrate the Lunar New Year, and dance students gathered at a beloved studio in the heart of Monterey Park, Calif., once marketed as a...

Leopard 2 tanks belonging to the Polish military conducting maneuvers in southeast Poland in November.Credit...Darek Delmanowicz/EPA, via ShutterstockPoland’s prime minister said on Monday that his government would ask Germany for permission to...

The Pentagon has announced that it will send 90 Stryker armored fighting vehicles to Ukraine, the first such transfer of the versatile eight-wheeled weapons from U.S. military stockpiles to a foreign country.The...

A former U.S. Navy SEAL who deserted in 2019 was killed in Ukraine this week, the Navy said in a brief statement on Friday.The SEAL, Daniel W. Swift, died on Wednesday, the...

A Lunar New Year rampagePolice in California are on the hunt for a gunman who killed 10 people in the city of Monterey Park in Los Angeles County on Saturday. The mass...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Sunday dismissed a senior minister recently convicted of tax fraud to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that disqualified the minister from serving, shaking the...

Many patients arrive in wheelchairs, their legs too weak to support them. They cram into a stale hospital tent in Malawi’s capital, where some of the dozens of people not lucky enough...