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The robbery at the Louvre has done what no marketing campaign ever could: It has catapulted France’s dusty Crown Jewels — long admired at home, little known abroad — to global fame.

Each protest movement began with a specific grievance that flared up, ending in the rejection of the government or its leaders.  

Soldiers with weapons guarding the main areas of Kathmandu appeared to give some sense of control returning to the city that was overtaken by violence and chaos in previous days.

Like neighboring countries, Nepal’s government have been asking the companies to appoint a liaison in the country. Officials are calling for laws to to monitor social media and ensure both the users and operators are responsible and accountable for what they share. But the move has been critic...

The United States, which had a frustrating swim world championships, ended on a high note Sunday with a world record in the women’s 4x100 medley relay in the last event of the eight-day championships.

"As they are coming out, they have been taken," said the spokesman, Donald Mdhluli.

Broadcaster RUV reported that the nearby fishing village Grindavik had been evacuated, as had the Blue Lagoon, Iceland's famed tourist spot.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum responded sarcastically on Wednesday to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

LALITPUR, May 13:  James Harris "Jim" Simons, the founder of the Nick Simons Foundation and the Nick Simons Institute, passed away last Friday at the age of  86.

BERLIN, Feb. 17: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a bilateral security agreement with Germany and planned to sign another with France on Friday, securing a strong signal of long-term backing as Kyiv works to shore up Western support nearly two years after Russia launched its full-scale...