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PESHAWAR — A suicide bomber killed 11 people at a police checkpoint in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to Pakistani officials, in an attack blamed on the Pakistani Taliban.

Details of the incident, including the identities of those killed and the number of wounded…

TRENTON — Roads flooded in coastal New Jersey on Saturday as a powerful nor’easter brought heavy rain and strong winds to the U.S. East Coast, with officials warning residents to avoid flooded roadways as the storm continued to affect the region.

The National Weather Service had coastal flood…

Rising oil prices driven by the prolonged Iran conflict are reviving inflation risks across major economies, complicating the task for central banks that had expected price pressures to ease as the year progressed.

Brent crude settled at $106.60 a barrel on Sept. 24, up 3.4% on the day after a…

In New York, as governments and technology companies gathered to debate the future of artificial intelligence, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was discussing a problem that had already crossed from laboratory testing into a government system.

On Sept. 24, Albanese disclosed that an…

COPENHAGEN — More than 36,000 excess deaths were recorded across Europe during the summer heatwaves, according to an analysis of European mortality-monitoring data published this week, underscoring the scale of the health impact of an exceptionally hot season.

The estimate, covering the period…

WASHINGTON—The United States and China agreed to continue dialogue on artificial intelligence during talks between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, with Beijing calling for safeguards to keep AI under human control while Washington emphasized continued cooperation on the…

RIYADH — Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Thursday it had launched missile and drone attacks against targets in Saudi Arabia, including what it described as a “sensitive target” in Riyadh and facilities belonging to oil giant Saudi Aramco in the Red Sea city of Yanbu.

Saudi Arabia’s Saudi-led…

Pakistan’s decision to conduct air and drone strikes on 10 locations in Afghanistan marks a further escalation in a conflict that had shown signs of de-escalation earlier this year. Islamabad said on Thursday that the sites were used to launch and store drones that had entered Pakistani territory a…

ATHENS — An explosion caused a residential building to collapse in the historic Plaka district of Athens on Friday, injuring three people and damaging nearby homes, shops and cars, according to Greek authorities and local reports.

The blast struck a two-storey building near the Acropolis and the…

The genetic trail begins deep in the past. By comparing chromosome-level genomes from bats alive today with fossils that predate most modern bat lineages, an international team of scientists has reconstructed a history stretching back about 65 million years. Their results point to Europe, rather…