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Governments are studying the decision to prohibit youths from using platforms like Facebook and TikTok as worries grow about the potential harm they cause.

American officials joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran in objecting to language on fossils fuels, biodiversity and plastics in a report that was three years in the making.

Seizures of more tankers could put a stranglehold on Venezuela’s economy, which is exceptionally dependent on oil to keep the government running and pay for basic necessities.

The Benin Bronzes, taken from what is now Nigeria, have become a symbol in the effort to return looted artifacts to their home countries.

The atmospheric river over the Pacific Northwest brought a deluge to British Columbia, forcing road closures and evacuations in Canada.

The United States is escalating its pressure campaign on Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, after seizing an oil tanker off the coast.

The tanker was headed eastward and had recently carried Iranian oil. The seizure is an escalation in President Trump’s military pressure campaign against Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro.

The rights group said it had documented atrocities committed by Palestinian armed groups, including murder, imprisonment, torture and sexual violence.

A parachutist in Queensland, Australia, survived by cutting the chute free at 15,000 feet when a reserve parachute accidentally deployed, according to a government report.

Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, the sixth prime minister in five years, bowed out amid public anger over corruption and democratic dysfunction.