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The C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, was consulted on the changes, the officials say. The proposal uses the term “sustainable calm,” wording that Israel had earlier agreed earlier to, but whose definition may be a point of friction.

Investors are taking a wait-and-see approach after the much-anticipated aerial assault had little effect on oil supplies.

Investors are taking a wait-and-see approach after the much-anticipated aerial assault had little effect on oil supplies.

A shrub in impoverished Nepal now supplies the raw material for the bank notes used in Asia’s most sophisticated financial system.

There have been record temperatures every day for more than a year. Scientists are investigating what’s behind the extraordinary measurements.

Books by Jenny Erpenbeck and Hwang Sok-yong are among six nominees for the prestigious award for translated fiction.

A tent camp is a temporary home for some of the thousands of Israelis who are mounting a four-day protest calling for early elections to oust the Israeli prime minister.

A Paris school principal received online death threats after he was involved in an “altercation” with a Muslim student over her head scarf, sparking outrage in a country still scarred by the killing of two teachers.

Rowers in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race this weekend have been warned of dangerously high levels of E. coli in the River Thames, the latest sign of England’s polluted waterways.

Baseball fans in South Korea have embraced the superstar from Japan, despite the longtime rivalry and history between the two countries.