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A boil water advisory was issued Wednesday night for the entire District of Columbia and neighboring Arlington County due to a spike in algae blooms in the Potomac River, officials...

In the working-class neighborhood of Tehran surrounding Imam Hussein Square, the side streets and alleys are lined with secondhand stores and small repair shops for refurbishing all manner of household...

Voters go to the polls in Britain on Thursday in a dyspeptic mood, many of them frustrated with the Conservative government but skeptical that any replacement can unravel the tangle...

For months, concerns have grown that the war in Gaza might ignite a second conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the well-armed militia that is loosely allied with Hamas and based...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed their Eurasian security club on Wednesday as a force for global stability at a summit of the...

On election night, when can you start to know who’s won? In Britain for the past two decades, there’s been a startlingly good answer just after the polls close, at...

The video posted last year on Chinese social media showed more than 100 Japanese children, supposedly at an elementary school in Shanghai, gathered in their schoolyard. Chinese subtitles quoted two...

Activists in Arizona and Nebraska submitted signatures on Wednesday for proposed amendments that would enshrine the right to abortion into their state constitutions. Arizona for Abortion Access — a coalition...

General Motors will pay nearly $146 million in penalties to the federal government because 5.9 million of its older vehicles do not comply with emissions and fuel economy standards. The National...

Officials in Grenada were scrambling on Wednesday to set up a field hospital after Hurricane Beryl ravaged nearly all the buildings on the nation’s island of Carriacou, including its lone...