World News Desk

• ‘Europe’s Last Dictator’ Raises the Stakes with the West

• ‘What Fear?’: Hindus Bathe in Frothy, Polluted Indian River

• Islamic State Violence Dents Taliban Claims of Safer Afghanistan

• Six Questions that Could Shape the Future of the U.S. Labor Market

• What’s Behind the Migrant Crisis at the Belarus-Poland Border

• Satellite Images Show China Built Mock-ups of U.S. Warships

• Iraqi Prime Minister Survives Assassination Attempt with Drones

• Tigray Forms Alliance with Groups Against Ethiopia’s Leader

• U.S. Government Works to ‘Cocoon’ Site of Most Nuclear Waste

• Spiders’ Web Secrets Unraveled

  Researchers have documented every step of spider-web building. Their new understanding shows how creatures with brains a fraction of the size of a human’s are able to create structures of such complexity and precision. Yet it also points to an element of the human mind science cannot discover.

• Putin Urges Development of New Hypersonic Missiles, Lasers

• Supply Chain Disruption: Is the Worst Over?

• How Turkey’s Second-largest Lake Disappeared This Year

• Americans Sour on Economy amid Inflation Woes: AP-NORC Poll

• How Hitting the Sleep ‘Sweet Spot’ Will Keep Your Mind Sharp

• What Is the Metaverse and How Will It Work?

• Sudan Military Seizes Power, Dissolves Transitional Government

• Russia’s Putin Tells Workers to Stay Home as Virus Deaths Rise

• North Korea Tests Possible Submarine Missile amid Tensions

• ‘A Dangerous Time’: Portland, Oregon, Sees Record Homicides