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When North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, met with his ruling Workers’ Party in the past week, he had some good news. The country, which has long struggled with hunger, was expecting a...

Crowds of Palestinians were fleeing a swath of southeastern Gaza on Tuesday, after Israel issued a warning to evacuate large parts of the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah and struck several...

At least 50 people were killed and dozens more injured in a stampede during a religious event in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where thousands of devotees had gathered.Ashish Kumar,...

Hurricane Beryl was barreling west toward Jamaica as a Category 5 storm early Tuesday morning, hours after it carved a trail of destruction across the southeast Caribbean and killed at least two...

Israel released the chief of the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital on Monday after more than seven months of detention, Palestinian health officials said, a move that drew an immediate outcry in Israel...

An era has ended in France.The seven-year domination of national politics by President Emmanuel Macron was laid to rest by his party’s overwhelming defeat in the first round of parliamentary elections on...

A Palestinian woman baking bread Sunday in a makeshift oven in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.Credit...Eyad Baba/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe United Nations’ top relief official, Martin Griffiths, stepped down...

With Myanmar’s currency plunging and inflation soaring, the owner of three cellphone shops in Mandalay announced he was giving his employees a raise. Word of his generosity quickly spread on Facebook, and...

Israelis expressed growing concern on Sunday that President Biden’s shaky debate performance could spur on the country’s Middle Eastern foes at what many view as a critical time for American leadership in...

The National Rally party won a crushing victory in the first round of voting for the French National Assembly, according to early projections, bringing its long-taboo brand of nationalist and anti-immigrant politics...