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Ms. Coventry, a former Olympic swimming champion who has been Zimbabwe’s sports minister, faces urgent issues including the rights of transgender athletes and the challenges posed by the climate crisis.

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms and disband, and their group declared a cease-fire.

The British prime minister said he would scrap an agency that was created in 2013 to help run the health service. He said the move would save money by avoiding duplication.

As he welcomed the leaders of Ukraine and Canada to his country estate this week, the king was sending a message to the world.

Singing in both Mandarin and English, he brought a soul and R&B sensibility to Chinese pop.

The group, the P.K.K., made its declaration days after its long-imprisoned leader urged the movement to disarm and disband, but there are still many questions about the prospects for ending 40 years of deadly conflict.

The officer’s death appeared to be the first among the Kenyan forces that were sent to Haiti last year as part of an international effort to subdue gang violence.

Russian officials are arguing that American companies stand to make billions of dollars by re-entering Russia. The White House is listening.

She campaigned for a formal apology and reparations from Japan for what it did to thousands of women like her, mostly Korean, during World War II.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said for the first time on Sunday that he was “ready and willing” to deploy troops to help guarantee Ukraine’s security.