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Benedetto “Nitto” Santapaola, a Sicilian mafia leader and one of Italy’s most notorious criminals, has died at 87. Santapaola, long suspected of orchestrating the wave of violence that plagued Italy in the 1980s and 1990s, passed away on Monday in a Milan prison where he was serving several life

In the modest, dust‑laden streets of Damak, a rare political clash is taking shape. It pits a veteran party figure against a former rapper‑turned‑law‑maker who favors dark glasses and crisp attire, a contest that could overhaul the nation’s political landscape. As Nepal approaches what many

The United States struck Iran after learning that its ally Israel was preparing an attack, which would have provoked retaliation against U.S. forces, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. “We understood that if we did not act pre‑emptively before they launched those attacks, we would incur greater casualties,

In the early afternoon of Ash Wednesday, ominous figures dressed in white roam the lanes of the medieval southern‑French village of Cournonterral. They wear long masks made of black badger hair, top hats tipped with feathers and sprigs of boxwood, and armor fashioned from sacks filled with straw. Though

Iranian drones struck the U.S. embassy in Riyadh as Tehran persisted in launching successive retaliatory raids on the Gulf and Israel, while Israeli troops began operating in southern Lebanon on the fourth day of an expanding regional conflict in the Middle East. The drone strike on the Riyadh embassy

With the United States and Israel ushering in a fresh wave of turmoil in the Middle East, China appears positioned to gain from a Washington administration lacking the political and logistical capacity to concentrate on Asian affairs. Formally, Beijing denounced the assaults. Foreign Minister Wang Yi described them as “unacceptable”