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The businessman Samir Khatib has withdrawn after failing to solidify backing. Press Release Distribution Service

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The North said it conducted an “important test” at a missile-engine site ahead of a Dec. 31 deadline set by its leader, Kim Jong-un, for a new proposal from Washington on denuclearization. Press Release Distribution Service

Enrollment of women at the University of Tokyo has hovered around 20 percent for nearly two decades, a gender disparity that extends across many top universities. Press Release Distribution Service

The left-wing opposition Labour Party outperformed most polls in 2017 thanks in part to its strength among young people, who appear to have registered in larger numbers this time around. Press Release Distribution Service

Large crowds poured into Hong Kong’s major thoroughfares for an authorized march meant to coincide with the United Nations’ Human Rights Day. Press Release Distribution Service

The International Monetary Fund, in conditionally agreeing to lend the country $5.5 billion over three years, cited “impressive progress” under President Volodymyr Zelensky. Press Release Distribution Service

Another head-scratching claim has drawn attention on the campaign trail in the lead-up to British elections on Thursday. Press Release Distribution Service

It remained unclear who killed a dozen protesters and bombed the home of the antigovernment cleric Moktada al-Sadr. Press Release Distribution Service

Many are asylum seekers but are being forced to wait in Mexico, where their lives may be at risk. Press Release Distribution Service

Risk years of imprisonment or flee? We traced the journey along a covert pipeline helping Hong Kong protesters escape to Taiwan. Press Release Distribution Service

A judge ruled that Agnes Reeves Taylor, the ex-wife of former President Charles Taylor, could not be tried in London over accusations of atrocity in her country’s civil war. Press Release Distribution Service

World’s Big Sleep Out, drawing attention to homelessness, happened on Saturday in New York, London and other cities. Press Release Distribution Service

As Britain heads for an election, a Times reporter spent two weeks driving from London to Glasgow. He found a country united only by its disunity. Press Release Distribution Service

The famous pasta-making women of Bari, Italy, are worried that a crackdown on contraband orecchiette pasta could threaten their way of life. Press Release Distribution Service

In France, train drivers can retire at 52, public utility workers at 57 and ballet dancers at 42. President Macron calls the tangle outdated and unsustainable. A million French protesters disagree. Press Release Distribution Service

Stressing that it was “a German death camp, run by Germans,” Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke of the threat posed by revisionist history and rising hatred. Press Release Distribution Service

The giraffe had bonded with a watchdog, named Hunter, at a South African animal shelter. It collapsed after a brain hemorrhage. Press Release Distribution Service

Jonty Bravery, who faced one count of attempted murder, intended to kill the boy so he could be on the news, the authorities said. Press Release Distribution Service

This weekend an ice cube from beyond our solar system will makes its closest approach to the sun, trailing mystery and dust. Press Release Distribution Service

World’s Big Sleep Out, drawing attention to homelessness, will occur on Saturday in New York, London and other cities. Press Release Distribution Service

Justin Trudeau’s minority government means that everyone in the new Parliament is likely to be in campaign mode all the time. Press Release Distribution Service