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WASHINGTON - In 1969, President Richard Nixon’s adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a memo describing a startling future. The increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere caused by burning oil, gas and...

Palestinian police inspecting damage on Sunday in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military and Gaza-based militants have been engaged in two days of fierce cross-border attacks.Credit...Mohammed Salem/ReutersJERUSALEM — An Egyptian delegation...

Caroline Kennedy, the United States ambassador to Australia, and Wendy Sherman, the U.S. deputy secretary of state, stood together at dawn on Sunday on the island of Guadalcanal to honor the 80th...

ARTS & LEISUREAn article on Page 9 this weekend about six podcasts centered on political scandals and upheaval refers incorrectly to the producers of “The Fault Line: Bush, Blair and Iraq.” They...

HAVANA — Lightning struck a crude oil storage facility on the northern coast of Cuba, igniting a fire that on Saturday had left dozens of people injured, 17 firefighters missing and prompted...

Inspecting the ruins of a building on Saturday after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.Credit...Mahmud Hams/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesFighting between the Israeli military and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip stretched...

The Israeli military and Palestinian militants in Gaza exchanged more fire on Saturday morning, as the biggest conflagration in the strip for a year moved into a second day.Israel targeted what it...

Iran has begun a sweeping crackdown on its Baha’i community, a long-persecuted religious minority, arresting dozens of people and destroying property belonging to members of the group, according to accounts this week...

VideoIsrael carried out a number of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, with one of the strikes killing a senior figure of Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian militant group said.CreditCredit...Mohammed Saber/EPA, via ShutterstockTEL AVIV...

VideoIn separate news conferences, diplomats for the United States and Russia said their governments were prepared to negotiate over the imprisonment of Americans Brittney Griner and Paul N. Whelan by Russia.CreditCredit...Pool photo...