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The influential politician had just returned from Kyiv, where he met Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday.

How coverage of the supreme leader's funeral exposed the limits of familiar narratives about Iran.

Soccer-SoFi Stadium’s World Cup run boosts confidence ahead of Super Bowl, LA Olympics

Sheikh Hamad, who ruled Qatar from 1995 to 2013 and stepped aside to make his son Sheikh Tamim emir, dies aged 74.

Hong Kong police have arrested 65 people in a crackdown on a criminal syndicate accused of running unlicensed nightclubs and gambling dens, where suspects allegedly served illicit drugs and hired illegal workers as hostesses. Superintendent Ching Chi-yan said on Sunday that the force’s intelligence

Yale professor Samuel Moyn says “the rich today are old, to an astonishing extent”—and his new book, "Gerontocracy in America," makes the case.

Graham, a prominent Republican senator from South Carolina, was 71.

The operator of the Eiffel Tower said the latticed-steel Paris monument would "exceptionally close" early over the weekend at 4 pm (1400 GMT), as France was gripped by a third heatwave since May.

Hong Kong’s observatory has warned of heavy showers and squally thunderstorms over the city in the coming week, but said it remains uncertain whether the low-pressure trough driving the storms will develop into a tropical cyclone. A spokesman for the Hong Kong Observatory said on Sunday that convect

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