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This year’s Africa Cup of Nations, like several previous editions, played out in Chinese-built arenas. It will end with familiar questions about their legacy.

The Queen Victoria was on its way to Honolulu from San Francisco on a 107-night world cruise when more than 150 people on board reported symptoms, officials said.

Cameron Ortis was convicted of passing state secrets to men under police investigation, but his motives remain unknown. He said it was all part of an international mission he could not disclose.

Officials said Sunday that at least 99 people had been killed and hundreds remained missing, and warned that the toll could rise sharply.

The scientist Michael Mann is challenging attacks on his work in a defamation suit that’s taken 12 years to come to trial.

The death toll is expected to rise as hundreds have been reported missing in the blazes near the cities of Viña del Mar and Valparaíso, an area home to more than a million people.

Hockey fans in Canada are struggling to make sense of a scandal that has led to sexual-assault charges against five former junior hockey players.

The verdict in the case of Yang Hengjun, who was detained on national security charges, may weigh on the warming relations between China and Australia.

Alexis Wright, an Indigenous Australian author, writes epic novels in which voices clamor to be heard in a dynamic swirl of the fantastic and the bleak.

China’s leader built up a nuclear arsenal, steeling for a growing rivalry with the United States. Now China is exploring how to wield its newfound strength.