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Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:14:14 +0000
Thieves broke into the Apollo Gallery, which houses the French crown jewels, through an outside window and escaped on motorbikes, the interior minister said.
By:Jennifer Hassan, Leo Sands
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 10:09:09 +0000
Here’s what to know about the hostages whose bodies have been returned to Israel — or that remain in Gaza as pressure mounts on Hamas to turn them over.
By:Victoria Bisset
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 10:00:32 +0000
The Latin Mass has become toxically politicized and is posing a test for Pope Leo XIV as traditionalists call on him to reverse restrictions imposed by Pope Francis.
By:Anthony Faiola, Stefano Pitrelli
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:00:57 +0000
But humanitarian groups continue to face challenges in supplying assistance, including blocked roads, damaged warehouses and Israeli government restrictions.
By:Claire Parker, Heba Farouk Mahfouz
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000
As Paris wrestles with ballooning debt and a budget impasse, two major Franco-German military projects and other E.U. integration initiatives could stall.
By:Aaron Wiener
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 22:45:35 +0000
It is unclear if the two surviving alleged drug smugglers have any links to Venezuelan criminal organizations.
By:Alex Horton, Tara Copp
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:12:54 +0000
The demand from Putin would significantly disadvantage Ukraine and could be an obstacle to peace, officials said.
By:Michael Birnbaum
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:33:40 +0000
We’re tracking what happened to the hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, from Israel.
By:Victoria Bisset, Júlia Ledur, Leslie Shapiro, Maham Javaid
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:54:50 +0000
It was the latest swing in President Donald Trump’s position on the war that often shifts following contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
By:Robyn Dixon
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:09:00 +0000
At the Oxford Union in May, Charlie Kirk said “you should be allowed to say outrageous things,” but a student who met him then may be ousted over posts about Kirk’s death.
By:William Booth
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:03:12 +0000
Here are some key things to know about splitting up with the United States.
By:Steve Hendrix
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:01:21 +0000
Each year, 5,000 to 6,000 Americans renounce U.S. citizenship mostly for tax-related and logistical reasons but politics is now playing a more central role, lawyers say.
By:Steve Hendrix
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:00:50 +0000
Gaza detainees, who often tell of harsh conditions while held by Israel, are returning home to discover tremendous losses suffered by their families.
By:Siham Shamalakh, Miriam Berger, Kareem Fahim
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 08:00:25 +0000
The now-uneasy neighbors exchanged fire again on Friday, Taliban-controlled media reported, days after agreeing to a ceasefire and talks this weekend in Qatar.
By:Rick Noack, Haq Nawaz Khan, Shaiq Hussain
Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:37:23 +0000
The operation is the sixth known attack on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean, and the first known to have left some people alive.
By:Tara Copp, Alex Horton, Noah Robertson
Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:43:27 +0000
President Donald Trump says he is considering sending the long-range weapon to Ukraine for strikes deep inside Russian territory.
By:Alex Horton, David Stern, William Neff, Ellen Francis
Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:25:19 +0000
In a new book, one of Epstein’s victims wrote a lurid account of what she said was sexual abuse by Prince Andrew, a younger brother of King Charles III.
By:Karla Adam