This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The world’s next country?” ...

According to Mach9, a startup founded in 2021, part of the solution is in furnishing infrastructure providers with better ...

Staten Island, a borough of some 500,000 people connected to Manhattan by ferry and to Brooklyn by bridge, is almost entirely ...

Check out the electoral map. It is a pretty simple exercise to see that some large swaths of the country did not succumb to ...

With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the ...

The Kremlin is attempting to dictate the terms of any potential "peace" negotiations with Ukraine before Donald Trump's inauguration, a respected think tank says. Watch a report from chief ...

As of Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. Eastern, ABC News is reporting that Republicans have won at least 218 seats in the next House ...

He described the refugees as people ‘who have vegetated on UN crumbs for five years, ignored by a world concerned elsewhere’, ...

The Republican Party secured control of the House, giving the G.O.P. a governing trifecta in Washington to enact Mr. Trump’s ...

Wisconsin Republicans have reelected Robin Vos as the speaker of the state Assembly. Vos has held the position longer than anyone in state history and was reelected Tuesday despite Democrats ...

A Denver state senator plans to leave the Colorado legislature after he was announced as the CEO of the La Plata Electric ...