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Progress roundup: Preschool has lasting positive affects for children in Mexico, Slovenia’s affinity for bees aids in their conservation, an...

Popular support for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank has been in steady decline. Now, to burnish its credentials, the Authority is...

How central is an independent police force to democracy? In Israel, the politicization of the national police is seen as part of the hard-li...

More than a month after President Yoon Suk Yeol’s botched martial law attempt infuriated a nation, South Koreans are still in the street, de...

Venezuela is meant to inaugurate its next president Jan. 10. But with a contested election, who exactly will take power?

A wary world is treating Donald Trump as if he is already U.S. president. International leaders are seeking his favor, making nice, but buck...

Following 13 attempts to elect a president, Lebanon’s parliament has sworn in army commander Joseph Aoun as the head of state. Mr. Aoun is t...

Elon Musk’s efforts to influence European politics raise questions about the degree to which he speaks for himself or President-elect Donald...

What’s more important, the freedom to mock, or protection of what many hold sacrosanct? After the Charlie Hebdo massacre, France opted for t...

Russia’s war of depopulation is worsening Ukraine’s demographic crisis; the population has fallen from 52 million in 1991 to 35 million toda...

Progress roundup: Success for coral raised in the nursery, corn grown on steep hillsides, and a new powder that captures CO2 from the atmosp...

With a warrant out for his arrest, South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol has hunkered down in his hillside villa for weeks. Investigators fail...

For Palestinian families forced from their homes by 15 months of war, the temporary shelters they have constructed are no match for Gaza’s w...

Sudan’s civil war has dealt a catastrophic blow to the country’s universities, forcing many students to continue their education abroad.

The “Repair Café” movement has spread to more than 40 countries across six continents, with nearly 3,200 Repair Cafés in operation.

Much of the world still sees Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a force for progress. But Canadians had anticipated his resignation for quite...

In Colombia, one couple’s love, across a political divide, offers hope for broader national reconciliation.

Ethiopia’s government is razing entire neighborhoods in Addis Ababa in the name of urban transformation, provoking dismay among many residen...

Both Russian and Ukrainian official confirmed the fresh offensive into the Kursk region on Sunday. The Defense Ministry in Moscow said that...

Community health workers are hailed as a cost-effective way to plug gaps in health care systems. Now they are fighting for their own rights....

Jenniffer González Colón took office Jan. 2 as Puerto Rico’s new governor, securing a historic third consecutive term for the pro-statehood...

A South Korean court issued warrants Tuesday to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol and search his office and residence over allegation...

For more than a year, Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched long-distance missile and drone attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping. After Isra...

As President-elect Trump promises mass deportations, one binational humanitarian group at the U.S.-Mexico border turns the Christmas season...

Ukrainians are uncovering their country’s culinary history – and how its distinctive features were suppressed during Soviet rule.