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American officials allowed athletes to compete after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs so they could work undercover. Their global counterparts call that a breach of the rules.

Athletes at the Paris Olympics have been sporting some seriously high-wattage accessories. Here are nine of our favorites.

Thousands of extra police officers have been mobilized across the country amid fears that protests, called for Wednesday night, could lead to further riots.

As tensions again escalate with Hezbollah, Israelis face the prospect of another “lost year” in the evacuated north.

Demonstrators defied a curfew, expecting another in a series of bloody crackdowns, but instead Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled.

The recent assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas’s political branch, halted negotiations for a cease-fire that would bring home the hostages held in Gaza.

Experts who monitor global hunger rarely make an official declaration of famine, but they just sounded the alarm for more than half a million people who have fled the fighting in Sudan’s civil war.

After winning the all-around gymnastics title, she wore a sparkly necklace in the shape of a goat, for Greatest of All Time. But she is not done yet: She has three more chances to win medals in Paris.

Plus, how a Hamas leader was assassinated in Iran and a look inside the Olympic Village.

American officials said they had no advance warning of the attack on the Hamas leader in Iran, raising worries of a power vacuum that could lead to a broader geopolitical crisis.