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Only a fraction of the presumed cases in five countries have led to positive tests for anthrax. Some scientists say other causes cannot yet be ruled out.

Plus a dance protest craze spreads in Iran.

Family trees have been dismembered, and whole branches obliterated, since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out on Oct. 7.

Sheynnis Palacios, the first Nicaraguan to win the pageant, became a symbol of resistance. The authoritarian leadership soon came after people close to the competition.

A lifelong academic, she stood apart in her ability to communicate her insights about the country to nonacademic readers.

Alex Batty vanished six years ago on a family trip when he was 11. The French authorities say he had traveled with his mother and grandfather in Morocco, Spain and France as part of an itinerant spiritual community.

The country’s lower house of Parliament unexpectedly passed a motion to reject a government immigration reform bill, leaving its future uncertain.

At least 14 people were killed in a clash between the gunmen and members of a small farming community in central Mexico, an episode that the state authorities cast as a gang extortion attempt that backfired.

In a global exam for 15-year-olds, only a handful of places, including Singapore, Japan and Australia, kept math performance high through the pandemic.

A Times visual analysis found that a rocket launched from Gaza on Oct. 7 hit an Israeli military base believed to house nuclear-capable missiles, although it’s likely they were not in danger.