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Before voting Sunday, a focus on the leading parties’ allies has dominated the campaign — and obscured debate about more fundamental issues.

Tunisia has pushed African migrants to scorching no-man’s lands along its borders with little food and water. Under a deal with the European Union, Tunisia agreed to tighten border controls in exchange for aid.

The demonstrators, responding to a protest in Stockholm last month and ahead of one on Thursday, set fire to parts of the building.

A lawyer started small with a creative tactic. It grew into an effort that could force fossil fuel companies to pay hundreds of billions in damages.

Acequias, a network of water channels created by the Moors over 1,000 years ago, are being excavated and brought back to life to adapt to the crises of climate change.

Spain’s left-wing government has tried to accelerate exhumations of mass graves left from the dictatorship. If it wins Sunday’s election, the right may end that.

To gain ground, Ukrainian forces have to make their way through a variety and density of Russian land mines they never imagined.

An arrest warrant for the Russian leader from the International Criminal Court has created a diplomatic quandary ahead of an August summit.

“Beauty and the Beast,” C.S. Lewis and other classics can offer useful ways of approaching world events, and summer reading.

Under a previous arrangement, the U.N. and other aid agencies had Security Council approval to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria’s northern areas. That agreement, in place since 2014, fell apart two days ago.