RIYADH, Saui Arabia — With its replica arches and columns from ancient Persepolis, the new “Iranian Corner” at one of Riyadh’s most popular outdoor venues has been doing decent business selling carpets, saffron and other products.

Saudi Arabia’s capital might seem an unlikely place to showcase the Islamic Republic. The rivalry ...Read more

The round batteries, small as buttons and shiny as coins, are prized for the energy they pack at their size. In households, they have become commonplace, powering remote controls, hearing aids, toys, electric tea lights, wristwatches, greeting cards that play music and other familiar items.

But doctors warn that such "button batteries" can maim...Read more

Thousands of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children can now sign up for subsidized health plans through California’s insurance marketplace.

The expansion comes from a rule change approved in May under President Joe Biden’s administration. Under the change, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients — known ...Read more

President Xi Jinping has built a sprawling security system to prevent violent forces from destabilizing society. A new wave of deadly attacks is putting pressure on officials to expand that surveillance state.

China was stunned this month by its deadliest act of public violence since a string of terrorism strikes rocked the remote Xinjiang ...Read more

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, according to people familiar with their plans, as the incoming U.S. leader threatens to implement fresh tariffs on neighboring countries unless they halt the flow of illegal drugs and undocumented migrants across borders.

Trudeau landed in West Palm Beach, ...Read more

NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government said the U.S. investigation into Gautam Adani involved private individuals, seeking to distance itself from the controversy.

The U.S. didn’t inform India about its bribery probe of the billionaire, Randhir Jaiswal, a spokesperson for India’s External Affairs Ministry, told ...Read more

LONDON — The U.K. House of Commons voted in favor of a landmark bill to legalize assisted dying, potentially putting England and Wales on track to a fundamental social reform that’s largely supported by the British public.

Members of Parliament voted 330 to 275 in favor of changing the law to allow terminally ill people with less than six ...Read more

Romanian authorities began recounting ballots after an election that shook the country’s political establishment with a victory for a little-known ultranationalist candidate as the country’s top court weighed accusations of outside meddling.

The Constitutional Court in Bucharest ordered the recount Thursday as security officials said the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police officers responded to a spurious bomb threat at former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Brentwood mansion on Thanksgiving morning before giving the all clear.

A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department was not able to confirm that the department responded to Schwarzenegger's house but said there was a ...Read more

CHICAGO — An Oak Park police detective was killed Friday morning by a gunman who was seen leaving a bank, marking the first killing of an officer in the line of duty in the near west suburb in 86 years, officials said.

Detective Allan Reddins, a five-year veteran of the department, was shot in his left side shortly after 9 a.m. while ...Read more

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris’s Fine Gael party is locked in a virtual dead heat with Sinn Fein in the general election, suggesting his decision to go to the country early didn’t yield the advantage he predicted.

Fine Gael won 21% of first-preference votes in Friday’s election, the official exit poll showed. Sinn Fein won 21.1%, while...Read more

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris’s party is locked in a virtual dead heat with Sinn Fein in the general election, according to the official exit poll, suggesting his decision to go to the country early didn’t go as planned.

Harris’s Fine Gael won 21% of first-preference votes in Friday’s election, according to the poll commissioned by ...Read more

Scott Jennings, who has made waves as a spirited defender of Donald Trump on CNN, has been asked to join the Los Angeles Times editorial board.

LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong announced the move in a post on X this week.

“Growing the board with experts who have thoughtful balanced views and new candidates are accepting the challenge to ...Read more

BOSTON — Prosecutors in the Karen Read murder case won’t be gaining access to her parents’ phone records that they said could have bolstered their argument that the defendant knew she struck and left John O’Keefe to die in a snowstorm.

Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone has denied the prosecution’s request for Verizon to ...Read more

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested he’d accept a ceasefire with Russia that left parts of his country occupied in return for NATO security guarantees over the rest, the strongest signal yet that the Ukrainian leader is open to ending the war without regaining all territory.

Zelenskyy made the comments in an interview with Sky ...Read more

Maybe they helped each other. Maybe they ran from each other. Maybe they ignored each other.

It’s long been known that multiple species of ancient humans lived in the same hot, lush lakeshore area of East Africa. Yet skeletal remains have made that difficult to prove.

Now, a team of researchers say they have unearthed 1.5 million-year-old ...Read more

Some eight months after revealing her cancer diagnosis, Kate Middleton is poised to take on her busiest royal week of the year so far, marking a sign of significant progress in her ongoing recovery.

The Princess of Wales is scheduled to join Prince William on Tuesday to kick off a two-day state visit from the Emir of Qatar and his wife. The ...Read more