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Cartels are preying on asylum seekers and migrants from around the world as they crowd northern Mexico, creating a kidnap-for-ransom revenue stream.

She helped save General Eisenhower’s invasion from potential disaster, enabling the Allies to gain a foothold in France that was essential to victory in World War II.

The tiny Gulf state has cultivated relationships with powerful people and institutions to raise its global profile, and to protect its interests.

She helped save General Eisenhower’s invasion from potential disaster, enabling the Allies to gain a foothold in France that proved essential to victory in World War II.

Plus the beloved cats of a Chilean prison.

An account of being held for 55 days in Gaza has touched a particular nerve in Israel.

Contortionists and acrobats with celestial skills train in squalid conditions as the promise of a former sumo wrestler to restore the national circus to its past glory has gone mostly unfulfilled.

After a student killed 14 people at a premier university, questions swirled. Did the Czech Republic’s permissive attitude toward gun ownership play a role?

TikTok, Facebook and YouTube are transforming global migration, becoming tools of migrants and smugglers alike.

Only a fraction of the presumed cases in five countries have led to positive tests for anthrax. Some scientists say other causes cannot yet be ruled out.