Partial Truce Said to Be Restored in Syria, but Not Yet in Aleppo
By ANNE BARNARD
The United States and Russia said they had won agreement for a new partial truce after a bloody week, but that it would not immediately include Aleppo.
The military found that human error, compounded by equipment failures, led to the attack on a Doctors Without Borders facility in Afghanistan that killed 42 people.
The United States and Russia said they had won agreement for a new partial truce after a bloody week, but that it would not immediately include Aleppo.
Declan Walsh of The Times is on the ground in the most populous Syrian city, observing a civil war’s toll on soldiers and civilians alike.
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The rare refusal to allow entry into the port comes as the United States challenges the Chinese government’s claims in the South China Sea.
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Trupti Desai has emerged at the forefront of a growing campaign for gender equality in religion, leading women into the holy sanctums of temples, often in the face of attacks.
A student and standout athlete who immigrated from South Sudan to Canada was arrested after it was revealed that he misrepresented his age.
The 94-year-old defendant, Reinhold Hanning, told a German court he was “ashamed I witnessed injustice and allowed it to continue” while serving at the Nazi death camp.
The Army made the decision after lawmakers called for the full reinstatement of Sgt. First Class Charles Martland, who helped beat up the commander in 2011.
They are thought to have handed more than $4,300 to Mohamed Abrini, the “man in the hat” believed to have accompanied two suicide bombers to Brussels Airport.
The 13 people on board were en route from the Gullfaks B oil platform in the North Sea, and a land and sea search has recovered 11 bodies.
Statements critical of the measure, which was passed on Thursday, reflected disappointment that China did not make more changes to previous drafts.
The eurozone, the 19 countries that use the euro, has finally edged back above its precrisis level, but doubts persist about its prospects.
The man, a 23-year-old Iranian kept from Australia, was airlifted to a hospital there, where he died from his injuries, the immigration department said.
Kim Dong-chul is the latest United States citizen to receive a harsh sentence in North Korea, which often uses the fates of held Americans as leverage.
Ms. Diski’s novels included “Skating to Antarctica,“ “Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America With Interruptions” and “Rainforest.”
President Obama has proposed the largest package of military aid ever provided by the United States, but Israel has insisted on more generous terms.
A letter to the United Nations secretary general by Iran’s foreign minister was among the most strident yet in a steadily increasing display of anger.
Britain’s yes-no referendum on leaving the E.U. has created an existential choice that is dividing the nation at its core.
Celebrated primarily in Britain, the unofficial Ed Balls Day commemorates a former member of Parliament’s tweet of his own name.
The suspension of Ken Livingstone came a day after Labour’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, disciplined another party member over anti-Israel posts on social media.
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The driving force pushing the recent European action against Google’s search engine was a consortium of corporate rivals.
The city owned so many apartments that no one was certain how many there were or who lived in them, and many were doled out in a political spoils system.
The Canadian jet maker has dug itself into a financial hole with development of the CS100, an airliner meant to compete with planes from Boeing and Airbus.
The vice president will urge senior Iraqi officials to put their nation’s interests above sectarian, regional or personal ones.
A hospital assisted by Doctors Without Borders was struck in a government airstrike, killing dozens, and rebels retaliated with deadly mortar strikes.
A Mexican conglomerate wants to revive mining in a protected reserve for monarch butterflies.
And then as now, migrants and civil liberties paid the price.
Young Cuban-Americans try to bridge generational and geographical gaps.
Ms. Rubin has spent much of her career covering Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.
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As it expanded across Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State destroyed many archaeological sites, looting them for profit and damaging some for propaganda.
Two years before the Paris and Brussels assaults, a special branch of the group was churning out smaller attacks that the authorities repeatedly discounted as isolated or random acts.
Once called a mystery disease, everyone in Brazil is aware of the Zika virus, which appears to cause microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, in babies.
China has been feverishly piling sand onto reefs in the South China Sea, creating seven new islets in the region and straining already taut geopolitical tensions.