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The attack in Manchester, England, happened on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. The police said the assailant died after being shot by officers.

American comics used Saudi Arabia’s first global comedy festival to skewer a debate raging at home. Critics said the event was part of Saudi efforts to draw attention away from a political crackdown.

A family’s campaign to free a student abducted from a rural Israeli town two years ago may be imperiled by an uprising in Nepal and stalled attempts at a cease-fire.

The stabbing in Manchester, England, came on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

The Danish public has been unsettled by a wave of mysterious drone incursions, which has underscored the country’s vulnerability.

Rescuers saved five more students from under the building on Thursday but said they would end the search three days after the deadly accident.

An executive order says an attack on Qatar would be treated as a threat to the U.S., bolstering security commitments to a key Gulf ally after Israel’s strike on Doha last month.

Seven men in all were sentenced on Wednesday over their roles in a decades-old national scandal in Britain involving child sexual abuse.

The president’s pardon of Mathew Golsteyn cut short an investigation into his killing of a man he believed to be a Taliban bombmaker. Was justice served?

A U.S. aid agency had committed hundreds of millions of dollars to the project, which could help provide clean water. Now its board wants to pull out of the agreement.