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Live Updates: Slovakia’s Leader in ‘Life-Threatening’ Condition After Shooting

Robert Fico, 59, has played a pivotal role in Slovakian politics in the years since it gained independence in 1993 and has served...

Blinken Warns Fighting Could Undo Aid Gains in Gaza

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken warned on Wednesday that recent gains in getting desperately needed humanitarian aid to people in the Gaza...

U.S. Suspends Funding for Group at Center of Covid Origins Fight

The Biden administration, under acute pressure from House lawmakers, moved on Wednesday to ban funding for a prominent virus-hunting nonprofit group whose work...

Slovak PM no longer in ‘life-threatening situation’ after assassination attempt

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is no longer in a life-threatening condition after he was shot in an assassination attempt when leaving a...

‘Scared about this thing I have in me’: Australian Yusuf Zahab fears death in Syrian jail

A young Australian detained without charge in Syria fears he may be infected with tuberculosis and worries he may die in prison without...

Wildfire Approaches Canada’s Largest Oil-Producing Area. Again.

A wildfire near Canada’s largest oil producing region prompted the evacuation of about 6,600 people from Fort McMurray, Alberta. Several thousand other residents...

A France in Shock Confronts the Violence in Its Midst

If France is a country of illusions — a beautiful and seductive land offering many of life’s greatest pleasures that sits atop and...

A.T. Ariyaratne, a Hero in Sri Lanka for Helping the Poor, Dies at 92

Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne was born on Nov. 5, 1931, in the town of Unawatuna, British Ceylon, as the country was known before it...

Dutch Right-Wing Parties Reach Preliminary Deal to Form a Government

Four right-wing parties in the Netherlands said on Wednesday that they had reached a preliminary agreement to form a government that would exclude...

France Declares State of Emergency Amid Protests in New Caledonia

France’s government declared a state of emergency in New Caledonia on Wednesday as it struggled to quell deadly riots in the semiautonomous French...

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