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Progress roundup: Chinese scientists develop a method to refresh weak batteries. And in Argentina, a law sends judges and more to climate cl...

The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, headed by Tareq Abu Hamed, is leveraging science to aid the Gaza Strip.

A French court has barred far-right leader Marine Le Pen from seeking the presidency in 2027. Does that square with her voters’ democratic r...

How far is China willing to go to protect its geopolitical interests overseas? As a Hong Kong company prepares to sell 43 ports to a U.S.-le...

A new wave of popular protest is gathering strength in Turkey, where President Erdoğan is showing increasing signs of authoritarianism. But...

Rescue efforts are underway across Myanmar after a devastating earthquake Friday. Teams and equipment have been flown in from other nations,...

Syria’s Alawite minority consider March 7 the start of a genocidal campaign. In the eyes of the Sunni majority, it marked operations to quas...

Cavendish bananas are under threat from a fungus that has wiped out other varieties. The island of Tenerife may have the conditions to prote...

Across Syria, the reunification of families and communities that had been displaced by conflict has enhanced the spirituality and generosity...

Facing American indifference to European security, Germany has launched a major rearmament drive. But without U.S. help, can Europe defend i...

As Israelis demonstrate in defense of democracy, newspaper headlines and neighbors’ conversations brim with references to a constitutional c...

South Sudan stands on the brink of civil war for the second time since it became independent in 2011, and the space for deescalation is shri...

Progress roundup: Nepal’s Supreme Court disallowed development in protected areas. And in Mexico, Congress put animal welfare in the constit...

Hundreds of university graduates are stepping up to teach children whose formal schooling has been interrupted by a brutal civil conflict. 

The NBA is taking a bet on Africa. And Africans are taking a bet on an unfamiliar sport. 

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Conservative opponent have kicked off their campaigns amid a trade war and annexation threats fr...

The gains come a day after the military seized control of the Republican Palace in Khartoum from a notorious paramilitary group. 

Planned limitations on Canadian access to the Haskell Free Library & Opera House, which spans the U.S.-Canada border, symbolize a fraying re...

Voice of America was rejected by the Soviets and Vladimir Putin. But some in Moscow wax nostalgic about what the state-funded broadcaster me...

Brazil’s Supreme Court will decide this month if former President Jair Bolsonaro will stand trial for a 2022 coup attempt.

Turkey’s next presidential election is in 2028, so why would the mayor of Istanbul, a Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rival, be arrested now? One reaso...

After the resumption of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, the population worries it has been abandoned by the world. 

Across Ukraine’s minerals-rich region, word of a potential U.S. deal has renewed confidence in the future. Most see U.S. investment as a pos...

The maple leaf flag is showing its colors everywhere as a Canadian-style nationalism rises in response to President Trump’s actions and rhet...

César Gantes’ dedication to slowing HIV in his country’s poorest region has earned him national recognition.