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The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon was targeted with gunfire early on Wednesday, the country’s army said. A security guard was wounded during the episode, according to the embassy.An attacker was also wounded...

Critics of Mr. Biden said he has no one to blame for his diplomatic challenges in Europe but himself for an inconsistent approach to international crises.“The contradiction, I think, is in American...

They had reason to believe significant progress had been made: Mr. Biden said he was sharing the outline of an Israeli offer, one that included language that was closer to Hamas’s demand...

India, the world’s most populous country, is also among the most vulnerable to climate hazards. That’s not only because of the heat and floods that global warming has exacerbated, but also because...

Sunday was a historic day in Mexico, with a landslide election victory for Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman and first Jewish person to become the country’s president.But as much as it was...

Nigel Farage, the pro-Brexit campaigner and serial disrupter of British politics, announced plans on Monday to run as a candidate in Britain’s general election next month, dealing a new setback to the...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday sought to keep his government from unraveling over a new Israeli cease-fire proposal, as two key right-wing ministers doubled down on threats to leave the government.For...

“Navigator,” the man who had ordered the children removed from the church, visited the foster home repeatedly. He would later be identified as Igor Kastyukevich, a Russian member of Parliament from Mr....

In a region sliding toward authoritarianism one country after another, the small Himalayan nation of Nepal was a shining exception.Political debates remained largely free, and the powerful could easily be questioned. That...

South Africans reject the A.N.C.The African National Congress has lost its political monopoly on South Africa. Election results on Saturday showed that the party had fallen short of winning an absolute majority...