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A Bedouin Arab citizen of Israel was rescued after Israeli commandos found him alone in an underground warren, apparently abandoned by his captors.

The Bedouins of the Negev desert suffered painful losses on Oct. 7, but less attention has been focused on their plight than on some of the other victims of the Hamas-led attack.

Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah carried out some of their heaviest cross-border attacks in months on Sunday morning.

Top officials in the Chinese territory have defended new sex education guidance that critics call regressive. Young people are amused.

Pavel Durov’s anti-establishment streak helped him create one of the world’s biggest online platforms, which emphasizes free speech. It also put a target on his back.

As electricity demand from data centers soars, Meta and Google are looking at a novel solution: harnessing clean heat far below Earth’s surface.

Fighting has raged in Gaza even as the United States, Qatar and Egypt have pushed for a deal, with Israeli strikes overnight killing dozens, according to health officials in Gaza.

Relatives of hostages being held in Gaza and some communities on Israel’s southern border argue the Israeli government should focus on freeing their loved ones.

Pepe Mujica, Uruguay’s spartan former president and plain-spoken philosopher, offers wisdom from a rich life as he battles cancer.

Carlos Magdalena, whose botanical adventures have shades of Indiana Jones, was a driving force in saving the world’s smallest water lily and finding the largest one. He has been called the “plant messiah.”