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Knesset committee approves mandating a green grading system for new homes to help reduce carbon emissions

At the last G-7, President Biden announced a plan for the West to counter China’s influence in low- and middle-income countries. But not much has happened since. This year, there’s a relaunch. (Image credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

A decade ago, people moved into tents to call attention to the high cost of living. After years of government promises, they’re back outside — and housing prices have only soared

Dozens of turtles, dolphins and other marine species have been found dead on Guatemala’s Pacific coast, prompting an official investigation, authorities said Thursday. As many as 65 turtles, most of them of the Olive Ridley variety, and 14 dolphins were

An Italy-based firm’s hacking tools were used to spy on Apple and Android smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan, Google said Thursday, casting a light on a “flourishing” spyware industry. Google’s threat analysis team said spyware made by RCS Lab targeted

Ukrainian forces will retreat from Severodonetsk in the face of a brutal Russian offensive that is reducing the battleground eastern city to rubble, a senior Ukrainian official said Friday. The news came shortly after the European Union made a strong

The Taliban government is racing to get recovery efforts under way in the country’s disaster-stricken east, where entire families were wiped out by a quake that left over 1,000 people dead.

Hossein Taeb is dismissed from the post after the deaths of at least seven military officers and scientists and Israel’s disruption of an alleged assassination plot in Turkey.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Image credit: Nariman El-Mofty/AP)

Dozens of civil and human rights groups wrote a letter to Biden urging him to help secure the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner. She’s remained in a Russian jail since February on drug charges.