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The palm oil industry has put Indonesian Borneo at risk of devastating wildfires. Ahead of International Women’s Day, The Christian Science...

Moscow’s return from the diplomatic wilderness has been sudden. But Vladimir Putin’s attempts to capitalize on it may not match Donald Trump...

Even as former anti-Assad rebels adjust to governing, private Syrians are trying to rebuild homes and communities shattered by civil war. St...

Do U.S. arms manufacturers bear responsibility for the guns fueling cartel violence in Mexico? Mexico is arguing that case before the Suprem...

The first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire allowed Palestinians to return to communities in Gaza’s devastated north. But as they try to p...

For those who love and work in Florida’s waterways, the fall’s storms were devastating. This is how the Waterway Warriors sprang into action...

Ukrainians were shocked to see Volodymyr Zelenskyy lock horns with a seemingly Russia-aligned Donald Trump. They are now seeking a new way f...

After President Donald Trump’s public rebuke of Ukraine’s president, European leaders are attempting to step up their defense of Kyiv and ad...

Caste – an outlawed hereditary hierarchy – has continued to shape Indian society in overt and subtle ways. But calls for a full nationwide c...

At a security summit in London, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged export financing for 5,000 air defense missiles for Ukraine. The...

Progress roundup: EU court says binary choices are discriminatory. And in Colombia, two museums hold mother lode of 10-million-year-old foss...

The kibbutzim and other Israeli communities near Gaza still bear the marks of Oct. 7. But as hostages return home, they are shifting toward...

Ukrainian families in front-line regions struggle daily to rebuild their lives amid the destruction of Russia’s invasion. Providing the elec...

A controversial oil pipeline project in Uganda and Tanzania has displaced tens of thousands, generating an outcry from residents and activis...

US President Donald Trump has drawn accusations of appeasement for his rapprochement with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, seemingly abandonin...

While much of Europe is wrestling with far-right politics, Serbia is seeing a student-led movement against corruption and its strongman pres...

For centuries, Yemen’s coastal wetlands played host to each year to flocks of migrating birds. But civil war has left the ecosystem in dire...

The freeze on U.S. foreign aid has hurt Chinese rights defenders, but encouraged China to fill the void left by USAID’s evisceration, prepar...

As the U.S. becomes an increasingly unreliable ally, the pressure is mounting on Europe to pay for its own defense. But the transition will...

It has been a pressing question regarding Syria’s new rulers. How would the Islamist group treat religious freedom in a diverse country? For...

In German elections Sunday, voters boosted parties on the partisan poles. Patience with faltering attempts to govern from the center is wear...

Progress roundup: Studies show that Americans are safer partly because of better driving. And Britons are healthier when they pursue arts an...

Amid recent Russian battlefield gains and a radical shift in U.S. diplomacy, residents of Ukrainian towns occupied three years ago now fight...

In Zimbabwe, therapy-trained grandmothers, sitting on public benches, offer personal comfort to those in need. The idea has spread to Washin...

Benjamin Netanyahu is in a bind over Gaza. His hard-right allies want to resume the war. An emotional Israeli public wants more hostages rel...