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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to fast-track cases on the president’s decision to prevent certain transgender people from serving in the military. The administration asked the court on Friday to take up three cases on … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON— As California’s catastrophic wildfires recede and people rebuild after two hurricanes, a massive new federal report warns that these types of extreme weather disasters are worsening in the United States. The White House report quietly issued Friday also frequently … Continue reading →

Deux policiers ont été tués vendredi alors qu’ils empêchaient des hommes armés de prendre d’assaut le consulat de Chine à Karachi, la plus grande ville du Pakistan, dans un attentat revendiqué par un groupe séparatiste qui qualifie Pékin d”oppresseur”. Les … Continue reading →

La tension s’est accentuée jeudi à Tijuana, au nord-ouest du Mexique, où plusieurs centaines de migrants de la caravane ont manifesté près du poste-frontière avec les Etats-Unis, alors que les forces armées américaines s’entraînaient pour repousser une éventuelle entrée en … Continue reading →

U.S. stocks closed lower after a shortened session Friday, bumping the benchmark S&P 500 index into a correction, or drop of 10 percent below its most recent all-time high in September. Energy companies led the market slide as the price … Continue reading →

KARACHI, Pakistan  — Three gunmen stormed the Chinese Consulate in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Friday, triggering an intense, hour-long shootout during which two police officers and all the assailants were killed, officials said. All the Chinese diplomats … Continue reading →

LAHORE, Pakistan — The party of a radical Islamic cleric who disrupted daily life with rallies across Pakistan following the acquittal of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case says he has been arrested by police in the city of … Continue reading →

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — A court in Slovenia has slapped a three-month suspended jail sentence on the country’s main right-wing politician for insulting two female journalists. The court in the central town of Celje said Friday that the leader of the … Continue reading →

NEW DELHI — The young American, paddling his kayak toward a remote Indian island whose people have resisted the outside world for thousands of years, believed God was helping him dodge the authorities. “God sheltered me and camouflaged me against … Continue reading →

BEIJING— The suspect in a car crash that killed five children wanted to kill himself and deliberately targeted a crowd walking outside a primary school in northeastern China, officials said Friday, in what appeared to be the latest in a … Continue reading →