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Authorities in Canada and Britain are investigating at least 100 poisoning deaths as suicides tied to the online businesses of a Canadian man accused of selling a toxic salt. Kenneth Law, 57, of...

YEREVAN, Armenia — On the day Azerbaijan’s military sliced through the defenses of an ethnic Armenian redoubt last week, American soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division had just finished a...

PARIS — Most mornings, around 6:30, Tharshan Selvarajah arrives at the Élysée Palace, seat of the French presidency, and unloads around 30 baguettes into the security scanner. The bread that is...

Industrial-scale whaling in the 19th and 20th centuries nearly drove many whale species into extinction. Populations of some of the large marine mammals are just starting to recover after the kind of...

ATHENS, Greece — Paris Skouros pointed toward the sky outside his office in Athens on a recent weekday. In the past six months, four high-rises had sprung up, built by Greek and international...

ChatGPT has learned to talk.OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence startup, released a version of its popular chatbot Monday that can interact with people using spoken words. As with...

KORNIDZOR, Armenia — More than 1,000 ethnic Armenians fleeing the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh crossed the border into Armenia on Sunday, days after a military offensive brought the enclave...

As the sun rose Friday over the lunar plateau where India’s Vikram lander and Pragyan rover sit, the robotic explorers remained silent. The Indian Space Research Organization, India’s...

GALURU, India — After Anand Malligavad tumbled into a lake, he thought he might die — not from drowning, but from the stench. Like hundreds of other lakes in the southern Indian city of...

WASHINGTON — Five Americans who had been imprisoned in Iran were allowed to leave the country Monday, President Joe Biden said, after two years of high-stakes negotiations in which the United States...

It had been clear for years that the dams protecting Derna, on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, were in danger of giving way. Torrential rains were not new. Decade after decade, they had pounded the...

Snakes can’t really unhinge their jaws, but for some, that doesn’t get in the way of swallowing large prey. And new research indicates that relative to their size, the snakes that can gulp down...

During the first two years of the pandemic, from March 2020 to March 2022, there were approximately 90,000 more deaths in the United States attributed to cardiovascular disease than were expected for...

AZGOUR, Morocco — With debris and fallen rock blocking roads to Moroccan villages hit hardest by an earthquake, many residents began burying their dead and foraging for scarce supplies on Sunday as...

The earthquake that struck Morocco on Friday night hit near Marrakech, a popular tourist destination, sending both residents and visitors scrambling for safety. Oussama Ait Chari, a guide who works...

GOMA, Congo — The world is racing ahead with enormous investments in renewable energy, for the first time this year plowing more money into solar power than oil. But the world’s poorest...

KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that he was replacing his minister of defense, the biggest shake-up in the leadership of Ukraine’s war effort since Russia’s full-scale...

It was the first day of school in geography teacher Larysa Kulyaba’s classroom in western Ukraine, but the number she wrote on the chalkboard Friday was not part of her traditional curriculum. The...

Young people around the world are increasingly taking their governments to court for failing to reduce climate pollution, and on rare occasions, they are winning. This week, their efforts received...

JINDIRES, Syria — On the spot where a three-story building completely collapsed after a devastating earthquake struck northwestern Syria in February, a small tent encampment has sprung up. Residents...