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The prisoner swap was all arranged, or so the American negotiators thought.After years of painstaking negotiations with Iran, secretly mediated by Persian Gulf nations, top aides to President Biden had finally struck...

Endorsing yet another cease-fire in the conflict that embroils two of Moscow’s closest partners — Armenia and Azerbaijan — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia “noted with satisfaction” on Wednesday that the...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is making his second wartime visit to Washington on Thursday, meeting with President Biden and congressional lawmakers as he tries to preserve his country’s most critical source...

The NewsPresident Bashar al-Assad of Syria arrived in China on Thursday as he sought financial support to rebuild his country and to improve his international standing after being ostracized over atrocities committed...

A ship entering the Sulina Canal in the Danube Delta, on its way to port, in Sulina, Romania, last month.Credit...Andreea Campeanu for The New York TimesThe crew of a cargo ship sailing...

Nearly a month after Spain’s World Cup-winning women’s national soccer team was thrown into turmoil over a forcible kiss, the players have agreed to come back and play their scheduled high-profile matches...

The U.N. General Assembly is gathering this week in New York City for its annual meeting, setting its agenda for the year to come and addressing some of the most pressing social...

Azerbaijan said on Tuesday that it had launched a new military operation against an Armenian enclave inside its territory, raising fears of an expanding armed conflict in a fragile region in which...

President Biden sought to rally the world on Tuesday to stick with Ukraine and warned against appeasing Moscow in a way that would reward its aggression and encourage the further use of...

The allegation was a bombshell: that India had been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil in June. .Canada’s prime minister leveled the charge on Monday, and an...