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The government presents its migrant policy as a welcoming alternative to U.S. crackdowns. But activists say those arriving on boats from Africa are excluded from that embrace.

The arc of mobile phones and social media may foretell the future of artificial intelligence in schools.

Paramilitary groups have intensified an offensive on a crucial region bordering Darfur, prompting fears of another massacre.

While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative voice in Rome.

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other leadership roles in the Catholic Church.

The activists provided support to people who sought sanctuary in Greece during Europe’s migration crisis.

Hearings that began Wednesday in Washington reflected anxiety over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact and whether the president could end up scrapping it.

The death of a British woman from Novichok was the result of a botched assassination attempt on a former Russian spy, an official report said on Thursday.

Mr. Abu Shabab, a Bedouin man in his 30s, was at the center of an Israeli project in Gaza to build up anti-Hamas militias.

Israel launched a military strike after it said Hamas militants attacked its soldiers, the latest clashes in the two months since a truce was signed.