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RIO DE JANEIRO — The assailants arrived in the sleepy city in southern Brazil just before midnight ready for battle:

STONESFIELD, England — Seven pubs in this tiny village in West Oxfordshire have closed over the years, and some residents

The raid alone was brazen enough. A team of Israeli commandos with high-powered torches blasted their way into a vault

For several months, orange flags printed with “Yes!” have hung from balconies across Switzerland, encouraging the public to vote Sunday

Casualties from unexploded remnants of cluster munitions were reported last year in Afghanistan, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, Serbia, South Sudan, Syria

The Kolyma Highway in the Russian Far East once delivered tens of thousands of prisoners to the work camps of

BAZARAK, Afghanistan — His face juts alongside the single-lane roads carved into the remote and forbidding Panjshir Valley, and looms

BEIJING — China is moving to impose new national security laws that would give the Communist Party more control over

julian barnes In the world of intelligence, there’s this old adage that there are secrets and mysteries. Secrets are something

SAN FRANCISCO — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has agreed to build an advanced chip factory in the United States, in