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BEIRUT —  One recent Saturday in Souq al Ahad, a ramshackle flea market that springs up every weekend under a highway bridge in East Beirut, an antique dealer recoiled as a customer counted off Lebanese pounds to pay for a small bag of trinkets. “If you’re paying in pounds, the price is more,” he said. “We’re…

CANBERRA, Australia —  Ferocious wildfires were burning at emergency-level intensity across Australia’s most populous state and into Sydney’s suburbs on Tuesday as authorities warned most people in their paths that there was no longer time to flee. New South Wales state is under a weeklong state of emergency, a declaration that gives the Rural Fire Service…

There’s a point in every struggle when momentum shifts behind you. Optimism becomes ambition. I recall those moments in our resistance to overcome our dictator in Uganda. I felt a perseverant optimism, as a young refugee, that got me through customs at Heathrow Airport. In Beijing in 1995, I saw hope surge globally for women’s…

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, at a time when, as the committee said, “the risk of nuclear weapons being used is greater than it has been for a long time.” ICAN was granted the award “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic…

Already under fire after the revelation last month that officials from at least four foreign governments—the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico—have discussed ways to “manipulate” his financial entanglements to their advantage, White House adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner came under even more scrutiny Wednesday night after The Intercept reported that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed…

UPDATE Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil on Sunday. The far-right congressman received more than 55 percent of the vote. His opponent, ex-São Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party, received less than 45 percent of the vote. Bolsonaro has already had a phone call from Donald Trump congratulating him on his victory. “This…

American-made bombs are being used to massacre large numbers of civilians in Yemen, and new reporting shows that the Trump administration is allowing this carnage to continue and escalate in order to protect the profits of defense contractors. “It is a shame that financial interests are worth more than the blood of innocent people.” —Radhya…

Hundreds of Palestinian mourners on Thursday attended the funeral of 24-year-old Gaza journalist Ahmed Abu Hussein, who was killed by an Israeli military sniper while reporting on a protest at the Gaza border. Hussein, a photographer for Gaza’s Voice of the People radio station, was the second journalist to be killed by Israeli forces since…

If you don’t know, prepare to know: “Myleeza Kardash” is Kim Kardashian West’s biggest fan. On Friday, the one-and-only queen of the selfie Kim K took to Twitter to wish Myleeza a happy birthday. “Thank you for being you!” she wrote, referring to Myleeza as “the real one.” myleezakardash/Instagram Clearly, there’s a connection. So who…

Tens of thousands of students from more than 60 communities across the United Kingdom skipped class on Friday to join the global youth-led #schoolstrike4climate, calling on world leaders to take bolder steps to eradicate fossil fuels and combat the climate crisis. “It’s sort of scary to think about that when I’m older there might not…