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Surging interest rates and waning financing options threaten a “lost decade” for poor countries.

Plus, Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded for more aid in Washington.

Bernardo Arévalo, the most progressive leader to get this far in decades, faces a barrage of legal attacks aimed at preventing an orderly transfer of power.

The Philippines invited journalists on a mission to provide fuel to fishermen in disputed waters of the South China Sea amid tensions between Beijing and Manila.

Earlier this year, mathematicians discovered a unique shape. Now do-it-yourselfers have found ingenious ways to put it to use.

In bitter debates from Israel to Africa to America, invoking a brutal history has become a powerful accusation.

It has gained prestige among Palestinians while poisoning Israel’s relations with the Arab world and putting the Palestinian issue back on the Western agenda.

Iran-backed forces are assembling drones and retrofitting rockets in the territory of an American ally. They are used in attacks on U.S. outposts in Iraq and Syria.

A government crackdown on neon signs stems from safety and environmental concerns, but the campaign evokes the fading of the city itself.

A farewell, of sorts.