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Mikhail Gorbachev was courted by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s as between them they plotted the ending of the Cold War.

Gorbachev was the Soviet Union’s last leader and played a central role in ending the Cold War. The hospital that treated him said he died of a serious and protracted disease. (Image credit: David Longstreath/AP)

The devastating floods in Pakistan are “probably the worst in the country’s history”, according to its prime minister, as the UN appeals for $160m (£136m) in emergency funding to help the nation.

NYPD says juvenile and adult detained for assaults on Jewish men last week, says arrests for anti-Jewish crimes up 45% this year, amid surge in antisemitism

Some 180,000 residents in and around Jackson, Miss.—the state capital and largest city—have little or no sanitary water for the foreseeable future after the city’s primary water treatment plant failed, the governor announced Tuesday. “Until it is fixed, we do

Scientists say specific proteins found in lung fluid could theoretically be used to develop new methods for diagnosing and possibly treating cancer

The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, 20 years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have cracked down on women’s rights and neglected basic services.

For years, outrage over the high-carbon consumption of the rich and famous in the face of climate change has stirred passionate outrage and accusations of hypocrisy, from Leonardo DiCaprio’s private jet rides to Bill Gates’s yacht. This summer the outrage

Some 33 million people are affected by this summer’s floods — the result of what U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres calls a “monsoon on steroids.” He calls the flooding a “climate catastrophe.” (Image credit: Fida Hussain/AFP via Getty Images)

Attorney representing some of the victims’ relatives the ‘writing was on the wall,’ after probe finds senior official, including Netanyahu, likely responsible for disaster