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MADRID — The United States on Wednesday signaled a new willingness to sell upgraded F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, moving closer to satisfying the ally’s longstanding request a day after Turkey dropped its...

MADRID — NATO leaders will formally invite Finland and Sweden to join the alliance on Wednesday after Turkey lifted its veto on their membership, NATO’s secretary-general said Tuesday evening, clearing the way...

LONDON — Deborah James, a British podcaster, writer and cancer campaigner who chronicled her struggle with an incurable bowel tumor with candor and vivacity, died on Tuesday, more than five years after...

A rebel group reacting to the overflight of an aircraft during a patrol in 2016.Credit...Federico RiosThe United States believed that the Colombian military was behind a wave of assassinations of leftist activists...

VideoVideos showed a shopping center burning in the city of Kremenchuk. Ukrainian officials said a Russian missile strike hit the building, and estimated that 1,000 people may have been inside.CreditCredit...State Emergency Service...

Leonardo Del Vecchio, the Italian multibillionaire who rose from Dickensian poverty to build a globe-straddling behemoth that helped transform the stodgy, fragmented eyeglass industry into a fashion-oriented business, died on Monday in...

Less than a month after instituting a mask mandate for most indoor settings, health officials for Alameda County, the San Francisco Bay Area’s second-most populous county, lifted the order, citing improving conditions...

A Ukrainian soldier in Sievierodonetsk last week.Credit...Oleksandr Ratushniak/ReutersLVIV, Ukraine — Days after Ukrainian officials confirmed that their forces had retreated from the devastated industrial city of Sievierodonetsk, the city’s exiled mayor on...

Russia appeared to be falling into default on its international debt on Monday as a grace period to make a payment expired, the latest sign of how isolated Russia has become from...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — At least six people were killed and more than a hundred injured Sunday when wooden spectator stands at a bullfighting festival collapsed, sending people running for safety.The collapse took...