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A nation synonymous with distance running was given a multimillion-dollar choice: Get serious about antidoping efforts, or get banned from world sports.

Large crowds greeted the former regional leader, who has lived in self-imposed exile since a failed 2017 independence bid. Despite a new amnesty law, he could still face arrest.

Paul, a social media influencer and boxer, usually promotes professional fighting. Now he’s in a partnership with U.S.A. Boxing, but his output in Paris has been minimal.

American officials allowed athletes to compete after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs so they could work undercover. Their global counterparts call that a breach of the rules.

It will never feel normal, athletes said, to have a stranger knock on your door and ask for a vial of your blood. Or some urine.

We embedded with an elusive rebel group in the Nuba Mountains to document its side of the country’s civil war.

Despite a declining birthrate that has alarmed the nation’s leaders, regulations in China prevent unmarried women from freezing their eggs.

The public’s reaction to the recent rioting has been resoundingly negative, suggesting that using the unrest to push anti-immigrant policies could backfire, at least in the short term.

The official warning came after a 7.1-magnitude temblor struck off the coast of southern Japan on Thursday.

The U.S. ambassador has criticized the handling of an attack on four instructors from an American college, but China’s foreign ministry called it an “isolated incident.”