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Thousands of travelers waiting outside the terminal. Hourslong lines to pass through security. Calls from frustrated airlines for the army to step in.Those were the chaotic scenes on Sunday as staff shortages...

Voters lined up at a polling station in Medellin, Colombia, during the first round of the presidential election on Sunday.Credit...Chelo Camacho/ReutersTwo anti-establishment candidates, Gustavo Petro, a leftist, and Rodolfo Hernández, a right-wing...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — For years, opium has been the monster too big to slay. One Afghan government after another has pledged to stamp out opium production and trafficking, only to prove unable...

KHARKIV, Ukraine — They lie in white and black bags at 20 degrees below zero Celsius, but the stench is still overpowering. Filled with the bodies of 62 Russian soldiers, the bags...

Una fila de votantes en Medellín, Colombia, durante la primera vuelta de la elección presidencial el domingoCredit...Chelo Camacho/ReutersLos colombianos dicen que son las elecciones más significativas de las últimas décadas.El domingo, el...

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Russia has made liberal use of one of its most fearsome conventional weapons in the fighting in eastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian military commanders, medics, British officials and videos...

Tropical Storm Agatha, the first named storm this year in the eastern Pacific, is hurtling toward the Mexican coast and has the potential to become a hurricane, triggering life-threatening flash floods and...

DUBLIN — The Long Room, with its imposing oak ceiling and two levels of bookshelves laden with some of Ireland’s most ancient and valuable volumes, is the oldest part of the library...

Natalia Abiyeva is a real-estate agent specializing in rental apartments in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow. But lately, she has been learning a lot about battlefield medicine.Packets of hemostatic...

WASHINGTON — Three months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, America and its allies are quietly debating the inevitable question: How does this end?In recent days, presidents and prime ministers as well as...