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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...

Japan’s leader on Friday called for China to stop its military exercises around Taiwan, a day after five of the Chinese missiles launched during the drills landed in waters claimed by Japan...

BEIRUT — On its second anniversary, the massive port explosion that rocked Beirut in 2020 was still damaging the city, as grain silos marred in the blast partly collapsed on Thursday. Nearby,...

The duty-free shop on Deck 7 of the Isabelle has been turned into a storage locker and pantry, with suitcases heaped in the perfume section and refrigerated display cases crammed with labeled...

DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine — Longstanding strongpoints of Ukraine’s defense in the east have come under intense attack in recent days, according to the Ukrainian Army and Western military analysts.That Ukrainian soldiers still hold...

CANBERRA, Australia — After years of being denounced as a laggard on climate change, Australia shifted course on Thursday, with the Lower House of Parliament passing a bill that commits the government...

WASHINGTON — For years the deliberate “strategic ambiguity” in Washington’s China policy has left unclear how the United States would respond to a full-scale, amphibious invasion of Taiwan.But an equally hard question...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, center, on Wednesday with the Siemens gas turbine intended for the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline in Russia Credit...Andreas Rentz/Getty ImagesStanding before a hulking metal turbine that...