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Three men were the first to be convicted under the city’s recently expanded national security law, which has greatly curtailed political speech.

Health experts, gathering at the U.N., have begun to shift their focus to try to provide access to basic drugs in countries where preventable deaths from infections occur too frequently.

Plus, 3,600-year-old cheese.

Plus, 3,600-year-old cheese.

Germany, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands said they will take the Taliban to the U.N.’s highest court because of its harsh restrictions on Afghan women.

Lebanese health officials said Israeli attacks since Monday have killed hundreds, including women and children. Israel claimed it had killed one senior Hezbollah commander with an airstrike Tuesday on a building in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Officials hope that Taiwan can become a bigger player in the supply chain for drones, a move that would also help blunt any threats posed to the island by China.

Plus, vintage soccer jerseys and the memories they preserve.

The East African country’s leading opposition party said that its presidential candidate in the last election and its chairman were among dozens detained before a protest called to draw attention to the killing and abduction of government critics.

A transformed China, conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere, and intractable clashes over money have pushed the prospects of progress to a new low.