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Abdallah Assaii arrested after holding seven bank employees hostage, dousing them in gasoline and threatening to set them on fire unless provided with $50,000 from his account

Given that Russia has amassed 100,000 troops along its nearly 1,200-mile border with Ukraine, a look at two recent invasions by Russia against neighboring territories offers insight to what a possible new invasion would entail if diplomacy is unable to

With roughly 1 in 3 living in poverty and not enough government help, many are dependent on food donations; pandemic and rising cost of living making the problem worse

A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. When Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum,

A Palestinian cross-border worker receives his dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre. Israel is ramping up its campaign to give people a fourth vaccination against the coronavirus, after the Health Ministry announced that the jab would be

WASHINGTON — The escalating tensions between the United States and Russia over Ukraine are worrying supporters of Michigan’s Paul Whelan, who fear the standoff will set back diplomatic efforts to secure his release after more than three years in Russian

Canberra-class landing helicopter dock ship of the Royal Australian Navy HMAS Adelaide sits alongside Nuku’alofa as humanitarian stores and medical supplies are unloaded as part of OP TONGA ASSIST 22 following the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai underwater volcano

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The Foreign Ministry said Minister Wang Yi made the demand in a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday Beijing time. (Image credit: Andy Wong/AP)