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MARSEILLE, France — Pope Francis challenged French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders to open their ports to people fleeing hardship and poverty, insisting Saturday that the continent isn’t facing a migration “emergency” but rather a long-term reality that governments must deal with humanely. For a second straight day in [...]

UNITED NATIONS — Pakistan’s interim prime minister said he expects parliamentary elections to take place in the new year, dismissing the possibility that the country’s powerful military would manipulate the results to ensure that jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party doesn’t win. In an interview with The Associated Press on Friday, [...]

The breach near Verbove in the Zaporizhzhia region was a modest but important gain for Kyiv as it fights a grueling counteroffensive. [...]

Workers for gas company Cálidda found the site in Lima’s Carabayllo district when they were digging a pipeline. The site could date to pre-Hispanic times. [...]

The shocking accusation this week by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that India may have been behind the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia has raised several complex questions about the nature of Sikh activism in the North American diaspora. Canada is home to the largest Sikh population [...]

(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) One of the challenges writing about news as it unfolds is identifying the clear narrative: reality can be messy, and narratives aren’t always clear cut. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] That dynamic was on full display here in New [...]

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall on the North Carolina coast early Saturday, lashing coastal areas with damaging winds and dangerous surges of water, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Radar, hurricane hunter aircraft and observers on the ground found that Ophelia’s center came ashore at around 6:15 a.m. [...]

“Everyone kept telling us they’d never seen something like this happen before,” said Jeremy Turner, dad of 3 girls born on Sept. 3 in different years. [...]

Ibram X. Kendi, the center’s leader who has become a flashpoint of national controversy, also faces an inquiry into the center’s management. [...]

Joan Didion was a bit of a goth. Beginning with her first short story about death in the desert, she was drawn to dark subjects: cannibals, bikers, Jim Morrison, Dick Cheney. Her favorite house was the old governor’s mansion in Sacramento, a towering compendium of gothic arches and Victorian cupolas. [...]

Half a year after Sen. John Fetterman’s hospitalization for severe depression, his wife, Gisele, navigates her family between worry and acceptance. [...]

Derna, which lost entire neighborhoods and thousands of residents in the deluge, has a history as a cultural and intellectual hub as well as a rebellious streak. [...]

With food shortages and blackouts, rumors of revenge-taking abound — and are flatly denied by the Azerbaijani authorities. [...]

The Labor Department has opened inquiries into whether migrant children were working inside slaughterhouses owned by the poultry-processing giants. [...]

After 30 years of atrophy, experts say, Europe’s shrunken military industry will struggle to provide the Ukrainians with a million artillery shells by March. [...]

Contract talks at an electric vehicle battery plant in Lordstown could have even more of an impact than the autoworkers’ strike on the labor standards of the emerging electric-vehicle industry. [...]

The world’s most brazen maritime militarization is gaining muscle in waters through which one-third of global ocean trade passes. [...]

Tens of thousands are converging on the Mediterranean port city to attend the service, which will be held at its soccer stadium. [...]

Russia has far greater air power, but Ukrainian helicopter units are flying combat missions to support troops on the ground as they try to oust the invaders. [...]

Carter ya era el presidente más longevo de la historia de Estados Unidos, pero su capacidad de resistencia, incluso en cuidados paliativos, ha cautivado a admiradores de todo el mundo. [...]