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Ousman Sonko served the authoritarian president of Gambia for years, seeking asylum in Switzerland after losing his job. Now he faces charges of crimes against humanity.

In “How to Be a Good Savage,” Mikeas Sánchez’ poems help preserve her language, Zoque, and allow it to commingle with English and Spanish, in an effort that is both global and deeply local.

The Ministry of State Security says the consultant collected intelligence and found people on behalf of MI6, Britain’s spy agency.

The country’s forces along a broad stretch of the front say that, with Russia pushing forward, the war has never been so dangerous.

The Israeli military has started fighting with fewer ground troops and airstrikes, its chief spokesman said, after weeks of international pressure to ease its offensive in Gaza.

A Lebanese official said the commander was part of the group’s Radwan unit, which Israel says aims to infiltrate its northern border.

Why has Brazil united in rejecting last year’s insurrection, while the United States remains deeply divided over Jan. 6?

The case of Bilkis Bano, who was three months pregnant when she was attacked, became a powerful symbol of communal bloodshed and of the widespread violence against women in the country.

The apparent retaliatory fire heightened fears of a broader war, and came after Hezbollah launched one of its most significant attacks on Israel in recent months.

With the opposition in jail or off the ballots in a boycott, the prime minister for the past 15 years was expected to maintain her grip on power in what appeared to be a low-turnout vote.