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Senior European diplomats warned that if Iran were to produce weapons-grade enriched uranium, negotiations to revive nuclear talks would be seriously imperiled.

The American-born entertainer and civil-rights activist was awarded one of France’s rarest honors.

Records of internal speeches released by a U.K.-based panel of lawyers and activists show how China’s leader set the blueprint for the vast campaign of forcible assimilation against Uyghurs and other groups.

The recent emergence of the highly transmissible omicron variant presents another potential hurdle as the tourism industry prepares for the upcoming winter holiday season. (Image credit: NHAC NGUYEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Anyone who refuses to get vaccinated will face monthly fines of 100 euros, or roughly $114. The monthly fine is substantial for retirees — the average pension is 730 euros a month. (Image credit: Sakis Mitroldis /AFP via Getty Images)

Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai made an assault allegation, then disappeared. She’s re-emerged, but the Women’s Tennis Association’s unflinching support may inspire a wider outcry over China’s actions.

A German court on Tuesday convicted the man of genocide and committing a war crime over the death of a 5-year-old Yazidi girl he had purchased as a slave and then chained up in the hot sun to die. (Image

How did the coronavirus end up mutating into the omicron variant? One hypothesis is that it spent months replicating in the body of someone whose immune system was suppressed by uncontrolled HIV.

China has for the first time become the single greatest focus for MI6, with its chief warning the risk “is real” of a miscalculation by Beijing through underestimating western resolve to push back.

A former member of the Islamic State group has been convicted of being involved in genocide and crimes against humanity, including the murder of a five-year-old Yazidi girl he bought as a slave and then chained to a window as