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Many of the closed beaches were in Sydney, the site of three of the attacks.

Intended as China’s version of Dubai’s palm-shaped artificial island, Ocean Flower Island is a $12 billion monument to debt-fueled economic excess.

U.S. authorities have accused Hezbollah of complicity in drug trafficking and money laundering schemes in Venezuela.

Philippe Sands, one of the world’s pre-eminent human rights attorneys, grew up in the shadow of bleak times. He worries that history is taking an unfortunate detour.

The number of billionaires has exploded, yet they often pay taxes at rates well below average.

Uprisings in three prisons have killed nine police officers, presenting another challenge for President Bernardo Arévalo in his fight against corruption and organized crime.

The world’s largest asset manager has been enlisted to help build Ukraine’s recovery plan. Some fear it is part of a Trump administration effort to steer the effort toward American business interests.

As President Trump tries to coerce European leaders over Greenland, they are pondering the unthinkable: Is an 80-year-old alliance doomed?

In a text, President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace” and that the U.S. needed the island for global security.

New tensions flared a day after a Kurdish-led militia agreed to hand over control of prisons holding some 8,000 Islamic State fighters to the Syrian government.