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As Anniversary of Women’s Uprising Nears, Iran Cracks Down

The professor of artificial intelligence was a rising star at Iran’s elite Sharif University of Technology. He gained wider fame for his vocal...

What I’m Reading: Buried Secrets

Even the best-laid plans, in my experience, often don’t survive contact with vacations. Unlike some past trips that shall remain nameless but know...

Paris Becomes the First European Capital to Ban Rented Electric Scooters

As Paris’s experiment with e-scooters came to an end on Friday, Anne-Marie Moreno set out on her morning walk feeling just a little...

French Citizen Killed After Straying Into Algerian Waters

Algerian coast guards shot and killed a French citizen and detained another after they strayed on water scooters into Algerian waters from Morocco,...

Survivor of South Africa Fire Describes a Harrowing Escape

As Tom Mandala leaned out of the fifth-floor window of his burning apartment building in Johannesburg early Thursday, it felt as if the...

Thai King Commutes Former Prime Minister’s Sentence

Thailand’s king has granted a partial pardon to the ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, commuting his eight-year prison sentence to a year,...

Grim Struggle Begins to Identify Victims in South African Fire

Families of the victims of a fire in downtown Johannesburg were still searching for relatives at mortuaries and hospitals on Friday to see...

Nobel Foundation Invites Russia, Belarus and Iran to 2023 Prize Ceremony

Reversing course from last year, the Nobel Foundation has extended an invitation to the Nobel Prize ceremonies in December to representatives from Russia...

What to Know About the Fire That Killed at Least 74 in Johannesburg

A fire that killed at least 74 people in a five-story building in downtown Johannesburg on Thursday has prompted calls for the authorities...

Mercenary Leader’s Longtime Lieutenant Is Buried

Russian authorities confirmed on Sunday that the 10 people killed in the crash of a private plane north of Moscow on Aug. 23...

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