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Indebted workers, facing brutal working conditions, are pushed to get hysterectomies as a treatment for routine ailments. Sugar mills disclaim responsibility.

A struggle for a position held by Ukrainian forces in the eastern city of Avdiivka underlines how the conflict is increasingly being fought in close-quarter combat.

The announcement that Corina Yoris would run came as a surprise to many who had feared that a fractured opposition would benefit President Nicolás Maduro.

Sweden’s courts have been debating claims to a meteorite that fell north of Stockholm, including whether the right to move around in nature, including on private property, extends to claiming a meteorite.

Ivan Korcok, a veteran diplomat hostile to the Kremlin, and Peter Pellegrini, a Russia-friendly politician allied with Slovakia’s populist prime minister, will face each other in a runoff.

President Vladimir V. Putin vowed to punish those responsible for the assault, one of the deadliest in Russia in decades. U.S. officials have attributed the attack to ISIS-K, a branch of the Islamic State that has been active in Iran and Afghanistan.

As the Islamic State claimed responsibility, President Vladimir V. Putin vowed to “identify and punish” those responsible and tried to implicate Ukraine.

The group was set to play the first of two sold-out concerts when gunmen opened fire at Crocus City Hall.

The group was set to play the first of two sold-out concerts when gunmen opened fire at Crocus City Hall.

The tragedy outside Moscow is a blow to a leader riding an aura of confidence only days after a stage-managed election victory.