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It’s that time of year again when stuffy noses and irrepressible coughs start to show up everywhere. Experts are already predicting that this year’s flu season will be a rough one and are...

A record number of cholera outbreaks around the globe, driven by droughts, floods, and armed conflicts, has sickened hundreds of thousands of people and so severely strained the supply of cholera...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian voters Sunday ousted President Jair Bolsonaro. In the closest election since the country’s return to democracy in 1985, voters decided to bring back former President...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil on Sunday faces a crossroads. After months of pitches to voters, the nation will decide one of Latin America’s most important elections in decades, picking between the...

SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk has started cleaning house at Twitter with the firings of at least four top executives Thursday, said two people with knowledge of the situation, as the billionaire closes...

SAN FRANCISCO — After months of waffling, lawsuits, verbal mudslinging, and the near miss of a full-blown trial, Elon Musk now owns Twitter. On Thursday night, Musk closed his $44 billion deal to...

Countries around the world are failing to live up to their commitments to fight climate change, pointing Earth toward a future with more intense flooding, wildfires, drought, heat waves, and...

LONDON — Rishi Sunak would have every right to be smug.Throughout the summer, Sunak, Britain’s former finance minister — and now the front-runner for prime minister — warned against the...

LONDON — The swift departure of Britain’s second prime minister in just six weeks left many Britons who had already stared down a year of economic and political turmoil in a state of frustration...

CHERNIHIV, Ukraine — Near the front door of the second-floor apartment is a pile of blankets, just in case. Plastic sheeting covers the broken windows in the main bedroom. The lower half of the wall...

LONDON — It seemed at once incredible and inevitable. No sooner had Prime Minister Liz Truss of Britain announced her sudden resignation Thursday afternoon than a familiar name surfaced as a...

PARIS — It started several weeks ago at refineries. Then it spread to nuclear plants. And finally, on Tuesday, railway and postal workers, nurses, some teachers, and even high school students across...

Nigeria is suffering its worst flooding in a decade, with vast areas of farmland, infrastructure, and 200,000 homes partly or wholly destroyed. Then there are the lives that have been lost. At...

Two people have been killed, hundreds of homes inundated and thousands told to evacuate as flooding again battered Australia’s southeast coast. It comes as the country is still reeling from...

Xi Jinping started a momentous congress of China’s Communist Party on Sunday with a 104-minute speech focusing on the challenges that China has faced over the past five years, saying the party...

LIMA, Peru — On Sept. 22, Carlos Lalangui was digging a trench to make way for a natural gas pipeline on the outskirts of this city when he spotted fragments of a human skull a dozen inches down in...

LONDON — King Charles III and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, will be crowned May 6 at Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday, the first coronation in Britain in seven decades...

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Ben Bernanke, the former Federal Reserve chair, and two other academics who have helped to reshape how the world understands the...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In March, Katelin Cruz left her latest psychiatric hospitalization with a familiar mix of feelings. She was, on the one hand, relieved to leave the ward, where aides took away her...

All through childhood, Miriam Abdullah was shuttled in and out of hospitals, her thin body racked with fever and ravaged by malaria. She was so sick so often that her constant treatments drained her...