NAIROBI, Kenya — Two Kenyan men charged with facilitating the 2019 attack on a luxury hotel complex that left 21 people dead were found guilty on Thursday and will be sentenced next month. Judge Diana Kavedza, while sitting a court […]
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LONDON — Fewer work and study visas contributed to a near-halving in net migration into the U.K. — the number of people moving to the U.K. minus the number of those moving abroad — in 2024, official figures showed Thursday.
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ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — Mongolia’s 10-month-old coalition government appeared to be breaking up as protests calling on the prime minister to resign entered their ninth day. The leaders of the three governing parties were meeting Thursday to review their coalition agreement,
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NEW YORK — Amber Salazar is the kind of idealist you just knew would end up running a bookstore — a lifelong reader who felt angered “to the core” as she learned of book bans around the country. A resident
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Russia and Ukraine have scheduled no further direct talks on ending their more than three-year war, a Kremlin spokesman said Thursday, almost a week after the first face-to-face engagement between the countries’ delegations since 2022 and days after U.S. President
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TOKYO — Asian shares fell Thursday after Wall Street slumped under pressure from the Treasury bond market and worries about surging U.S. debt. U.S. futures were little changed, while Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 shed 1.0% in afternoon trading to 36,944.55.
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SRINAGAR, India — There are hardly any tourists in the scenic Himalayan region of Kashmir. Most of the hotels and ornate pinewood houseboats are empty. Resorts in the snowclad mountains have fallen silent. Hundreds of cabs are parked and idle.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Institute of Peace retook control of its headquarters Wednesday, two days after a federal judge said the firing of its board and employees by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency was illegal. The institute’s acting president,
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California state lawmaker denied having any alcohol and drugs in her system after Sacramento police cited her earlier this week on suspicion of driving under the influence. Sacramento police responded at around 1:30 p.m. Monday to
INDIANAPOLIS — Jim Irsay, the Indianapolis Colts’ owner who leveraged the popularity of Peyton Manning into a new stadium and a Super Bowl title, died Wednesday at age 65. Pete Ward, Irsay’s longtime right-hand man and the teams chief operating
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