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Hours after the cease-fire deal was announced, some relatives of hostages held in Gaza said they had received no official information from the Israeli authorities.

King Charles III welcomed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and First Lady Kim Keon Hee to Buckingham Palace on the evening of Tuesday, Nov. 21 to celebrate 140 years of diplomatic relations. Charles, 75, rolled out the red carpet

Residents of the enclave expressed hope about a pause in Israel’s bombardment but felt that the agreement would not bring an end to the war.

With offshore wind projects bleeding cash, governments will have to pay more to hit their clean-energy targets. Recent auctions show just how much more.

Binance boss Changpeng Zhao has become the most powerful cryptocurrency figure to fall in a two-year period chaotic even by the standards of the notoriously volatile industry. Zhao stepped down as CEO of Binance — the largest crypto exchange in

On a Friday afternoon in 2005, at about 3 p.m., Mickey Mauck, then 55, got a call from a child-protective-services agent informing her that her granddaughter had been taken into care, and asking if she could come pick her up.

On December 2, 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte was preparing to crown himself Emperor of the French in Notre Dame Cathedral. The pope had arrived to bless the ceremony. Hundreds of musicians were playing hymns and ceremonial marches. Napoleon himself was wearing

The first player viewers meet in Squid Game: The Challenge, a new reality competition based on the South Korean Netflix thriller that became an international phenomenon, is a relatable everywoman named Starla. “Who’s not in debt?” she asks, by way

Dutch voters cast ballots Wednesday in an unpredictable election that will usher in a new political era after Prime Minister Mark Rutte‘s record 13-year stint in charge. Opinion polls suggest the result is far too close to predict, with any

The Chinese government has expanded its campaign of closing mosques to regions other than Xinjiang, where for years it has been blamed for persecuting Muslim minorities, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday. Authorities have closed mosques in