Afghan doctors told they will no longer be able to perform corneal transplants

Struggling to find steady work, many migrants who have arrived recently from Senegal have adapted with a relentless sidewalk hustle, sustaining their families through street vending.

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Iran says diplomacy remains possible but rejects U.S. demands for surrender.

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan made a rare joint visit to Tehran amid reports that the U.S. and Israel were drawing up plans to renew their attacks on Iran.

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The Parks Department has a $10 million plan to renovate the northeast corner of Tompkins Square Park, but fans of its workout bars want things to stay just as they are.

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Oscar Belgal, a Dominican immigrant, was shot in the neck on Oct. 8 and detained at a federal prison. His lawyers had said he needed outside medical care.

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This is the first documented instance of barn owls nesting in Manhattan in modern history, according to one expert, and the owls have attracted nightly crowds of people in the street eager to get a glimpse of the elusive birds.

More than 90 women were sent to Saudi Arabia on fake documents in an elaborate fraud to provide workers for short-staffed Gulf hospitals

For female students, the move would spell the end of their careers and prospects under Taliban rule

A skeletal maternity service is battling to keep mothers and babies alive in Afghanistan. It is running on borrowed time