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The government is pushing hard to raise turnout in an election overshadowed by a deadly fire and public anger over safety lapses and official accountability.

The arrest was part of a crackdown on speech that the authorities say is inciting hatred of the government. Critics say officials are silencing calls for accountability.

The country is trying to wean children under 16 off the likes of TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law. The teenagers are skeptical.

The country is barring children under 16 from social media, with a sweeping federal law that is one of the first attempts at a nationwide regulation.

Officials said they were investigating the blaze in the southwestern state of Goa, a popular tourist destination.

The police said they were searching for three assailants who opened fire, shooting 25 people. A 3-year-old boy was among the dead, while 13 survivors were being treated in the hospital.

The white descendants of Europeans who colonized the country are getting greater access to American officials this year, both in Washington and in Pretoria.

President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.

Paramilitary groups have intensified an offensive on a crucial region bordering Darfur, prompting fears of another massacre.

The president trumpeted a peace pact in a meeting with the two countries’ leaders that includes incentives for U.S. access to minerals. Fighting in eastern Congo has continued in the months since an earlier agreement.

A dusty town in the parched northeast has become the nation’s show business destination. But climate change and technology are posing new challenges there.

President Trump backed Nasry Asfura days before the Nov. 30 election and denounced his opponents. In a close race, that has potentially tipped the scales.

Venezuelan officials say María Corina Machado will be considered a fugitive if she goes to Oslo, laying bare the risks for the opposition leader.

A book revives the largely forgotten story of how one of America’s most famous founding fathers tried to make Canada a part of his new nation.

The South American country increasingly at odds with the Trump administration has the world’s largest oil reserves.

Beijing disputed the accusation, the latest flare-up in a festering dispute between the two countries.

The arrest was part of a crackdown on speech that the authorities say is inciting hatred of the government. Critics say officials are silencing calls for accountability.

The country is trying to wean children under 16 off the likes of TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law. The teenagers are skeptical.

The government is pushing hard to raise turnout in an election overshadowed by a deadly fire and public anger over safety lapses and official accountability.

The country is barring children under 16 from social media, with a sweeping federal law that is one of the first attempts at a nationwide regulation.

Two people were rescued from a half-sunken boat off the island of Crete on Saturday evening, but 17 others died in the wreck.

His innovative approach drew crowds to the Musée d’Orsay, one of France’s flagship cultural institutions, which he led from 2008 to 2017.

A new White House policy document formalizes President Trump’s long-held contempt for Europe’s leaders. It made clear that the continent now stands at a strategic crossroads.

Russian forces have advanced on several fronts recently. President Vladimir V. Putin signaled after talks with U.S. officials that he was not budging from demands.

President Trump’s new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians.

Officials said Israel helped arm and back Yasser Abu Shabab’s Popular Forces, part of a strategy against Hamas, before a local clan killed him this week.

The conservative Islamic kingdom’s approach to social policy change is often silence and ambiguity. Legalizing alcohol has been no different.

President Trump’s new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians.

An armed group backed by the United Arab Emirates has pushed into the oil-rich province of Hadramout, a move that could reignite conflict in Yemen after years of a stalemate.

The Netherlands and Slovenia also said they would not take part in next year’s contest, meant to be its celebratory 70th edition.

In a move toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee recommended delaying the shots for infants whose mothers test negative for the virus.

The health secretary has walled himself off from government scientists and empowered fellow activists to pursue his vaccine agenda.

About half of people covered under the Affordable Care Act say that if their health costs spike, it will have a “major impact” on how they vote in the 2026 midterm elections, a survey found.

Only four donors have transmitted rabies to organ transplant recipients since 1978, according to federal officials.

Abbott Diabetes Care said it had received reports of more than 700 injuries that may be associated with malfunctioning sensors.

The deal to acquire the Hollywood behemoth’s television and film studios as well as HBO Max will bulk up the world’s biggest paid streaming service.

The case over online transparency has become a point of contention between the European Union and the Trump administration.

Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.

“For OpenAI to realize its ambitions, it is not going to be enough for them to make a model that is as good as Gemini 3. They need to be able to leapfrog it again.”

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