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The police in Northern Ireland said on Friday that the killing of a journalist in Londonderry during a night of violent unrest was committed by a militant opponent of British rule there. “We are treating this as a terrorist incident, and we have launched a murder inquiry,” Mark Hamilton, an …

The countries challenging the retailer, however, said they wanted shared governance of the .amazon domain, to protect the name and to ensure they will have a say in how it is used in the future. “We would like to be able to raise objections to specific names,” said Mr. Zaluar. …

PARIS — By the time the Paris Fire Department’s chaplain made his way inside Notre-Dame, flames had already consumed most of the cathedral’s roof and its spire had smashed onto the nave. But the flames had yet to reach many of the artworks, artifacts and relics, and it was the …

WASHINGTON — North Korea said on Thursday that it test-fired a new type of “tactical guided weapon,” in what appeared to be a warning from Kim Jong-un to President Trump that unless once-promising negotiations with Washington resume, the two countries could again be on a collision course. The North’s official …

PARIS — Inside the cavernous cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, the last Mass of the day was underway on Monday of Holy Week when the first fire alarm went off. It was 6:20 p.m., 25 minutes before the heavy wooden doors were scheduled to close to visitors for the day. …

PARIS — The fire that roared through Notre-Dame has been extinguished, officials said on Tuesday, after President Emmanuel Macron of France vowed to rebuild the cathedral, a beloved symbol of the city for more than eight centuries, and prosecutors began investigating what caused the blaze that badly damaged a world-renowned …

“I know some women who are wonderfully kind and generous and loving,” she added, “and I know some men who are — and I know some women and men who are tough and ruthless and cunning. The moment you start attributing any kind of characteristic to one gender or the …

In the United States and Europe, the debate in the artificial intelligence community has focused on the unconscious biases of those designing the technology. Recent tests showed facial recognition systems made by companies like I.B.M. and Amazon were less accurate at identifying the features of darker-skinned people. China’s efforts raise …

Sudan’s powerful intelligence chief stepped down on Saturday, two days after the president was ousted, as huge crowds of demonstrators remained encamped outside the country’s military headquarters. Those demonstrators, who in the past week have numbered in the hundreds of thousands, have proved the most potent force for democratic change …

CORQUÍN, Honduras — The farmer stood in his patch of forlorn coffee plants, their leaves sick and wilted, the next harvest in doubt. Last year, two of his brothers and a sister, desperate to find a better way to survive, abandoned their small coffee farms in this mountainous part of …