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Letter volumes have halved since 2011. Without significant changes, the beleaguered Royal Mail services will become “out of date,” according to a report.

Activists fear that one man’s sudden admission that he lit a crowded building ablaze to cover up a murder will let officials off the hook for failing to correct unsafe conditions there.

A shift by Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, toward open hostility against South Korea is alarming but does not indicate he is about to start a full-scale war, officials say.

The negotiations continue, but the sides are far apart on issues including the fate of Hamas’s top leadership in the Gaza Strip.

The police said a 29-year-old had confessed to starting the August fire that tore through a derelict, overcrowded building occupied by poor people.

This Western mutual-defense alliance is central to the pushback against Russia, even though Ukraine is not a member.

Track and field’s decision to bar intersex athletes from women’s events has raised questions about fair play and inclusion ahead of the Paris Games.

Daria Trepova gave Maksim Fomin, who was known more popularly as Vladlen Tatarsky, a statuette that contained a bomb.

A prolific filmmaker and writer who took sides, he was best known for a documentary about the Khmer Rouge’s genocide in Cambodia in the 1970s.