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When a runaway train loaded with oil jumped the tracks in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, 47 people died in Canada’s worst rail disaster in nearly 150 years.

The relationship between the two leaders has become critical to the future of the international order.

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The success of “Tirailleurs,” set in the mire and mayhem of World War I, has helped resurface the often neglected story of colonial soldiers forced to take up somebody else’s fight.

Another quake struck near a town in hard-hit Hatay Province, collapsing more buildings in a region devastated by the Feb. 6 disaster.

The kingdom’s courts are meting out harsher punishments than ever to citizens who criticize the government, with prosecutions built on Twitter posts ending in prison sentences of 15 to 45 years.

The fire gutted orderly rooms and stores of the Fifth Division.

Alarmed by an online personality’s popularity among their students, educators are mobilizing to combat the sexism he promotes.

The dead appeared to have suffocated inside a secret compartment under a load of lumber.

The government is under pressure to combat gender violence after what authorities say were the killings of at least eight women this year by former or current partners.