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At least 52 people were killed on Friday in what officials said they believed was a suicide attack at a religious gathering in southwestern Pakistan, the latest sign of the country’s deteriorating...

Russian conscript soldiers at the Alabino training site outside Moscow in August.Credit...Nanna Heitmann for The New York TimesSenior Russian officials said Thursday that an anticipated 69 percent leap in the country’s defense...

Sluggish progress in the war in Ukraine.

A former member of a Belarusian security services unit on trial for the disappearance of three prominent opponents of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko in 1999 has been acquitted by a Swiss court...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during a news conference in Kyiv, on Thursday.Credit...Sergei Supinsky/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesWestern defense officials made unannounced visits to Kyiv...

Chen Siming, an activist who fled China, has been camped out at an airport in Taiwan for nearly a week, hoping to gain asylum in the West. He is willing to wait...

During his first trip to India as Canada’s prime minister in 2018, Justin Trudeau made a visit to the northern state of Punjab, where he got a photo op in full Punjabi...

Pvt. Travis T. King, the American soldier who crossed into North Korea on July 18, was released into U.S. custody on Wednesday after weeks of diplomacy mediated by the Swedish government, American...

The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons resigned on Tuesday after again apologizing for introducing a 98-year-old Ukrainian who had served with a Nazi SS unit as a “hero” just after President...

Six weeks after Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Ukraine sank the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, dealing a serious blow to the enemy navy, and, a Ukrainian official said, killing the...