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The United States is actively engaged in indirect talks involving Israel, Hamas and Qatar to secure their release.

The lawyer of Sergei G. Khadzhikurbanov, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping to organize the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, said he had been pardoned by President Vladimir V. Putin.

President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China will try to defuse a year of bubbling tensions on Wednesday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

Educators, artists, students and relatives of some of the hundreds of hostages seized by Hamas are scheduled to appear, along with top U.S. lawmakers.

Three officials were accused of operating at the behest of Russian intelligence when they aligned with efforts by Rudolph W. Giuliani to tie the Biden family to corruption in Ukraine.

Three officials were accused of operating at the behest of Russian intelligence when they aligned with efforts by Rudolph W. Giuliani to tie the Biden family to corruption in Ukraine.

The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind.

The Israeli military released a statement appearing to confirm the authenticity of the video, which it condemned as “psychological terrorism.”

Countries are taking “baby steps,” a U.N. official said. In a separate study, Saudi researchers warned of an “existential crisis” for their nation from rising temperatures.

About three dozen premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital are at risk without the electricity needed for incubators, Gazan health officials say.