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No Pills or Needles, Just Paper: How Deadly Drugs Are Changing

The Division 9 Maximum Security Dormitory of the Cook County Department of Corrections — where inmates have been found using deadly illicit drugs — saturated onto paper — in the pages of books, letters from family and legal documents.

Iran War Live Updates: U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Iranian Oil as War Enters Fourth Week

Zelensky Sends Negotiators to the U.S., Hoping to Revive Peace Talks

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Wednesday in Madrid. He has called for the resumption of peace talks, which have lost momentum in recent weeks.

The Road to the Battle of Hastings in 1066? Maybe Not a Road After All.

Re-enactors setting out from Clifford’s Tower in York, England, to follow the supposed journey of King Harold to the site of the Battle of Hastings, for the 950th anniversary of the battle in 2016.

BTS’s Comeback Show Was Heavy on Their New Album

Iranian Sailors, Including Survivors of Torpedoed Ship, Remain in Limbo

A Sri Lankan Navy vessel rescuing survivors of the Dena, an Iranian warship torpedoed earlier this month by a U.S. submarine, in a photo provided by the Sri Lankan Navy.

​At Least 14 Killed in South Korean Factory Fire

Firefighters spraying water to extinguish a fire at a factory in Daejeon, South Korea, on Friday.

Fidel Castro’s Grandson Flaunts Beer, Nikes and Trump Jokes on Instagram

A Public Holiday Every Week? Sri Lankans Bemoan the Enforced Day Off.

A vendor waiting for customers at a railway station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday, after the government announced a weekly holiday on Wednesdays to save fuel.

Chelsea Chief Under Abramovich Could Face Scrutiny Over Soccer Cheating

Marina Granovskaia before a match at Wembley Stadium in London in 2022, when she was a Chelsea board member.

On a Holiday of Renewal, Iranians Are Mourning and Fearful

Trump Organization Eyes Transylvania Golf Course Deal

The Trump Organization is considering a real estate project in Romania that would be near a landfill and a makeshift settlement known as Pata Rat.

Seeking to Rely Less on China, U.S. Pushes a Rare Earths Partnership on a Reluctant Brazil

A mine operated by Serra Verde Mining in Goiás state, Brazil, in July.

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