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Her face has lit up a billboard in Times Square, and been painted on murals in Paris and Berlin. It has been splashed on the Barcelona soccer team’s private jet and commemorated...

Hours after the European Union ended a temporary ban on imports of Ukrainian grain and other products to five member nations, three of them — Poland, Hungary and Slovakia — defied the...

It had been clear for years that the dams protecting Derna, on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, were in danger of giving way.Torrential rains were not new. Decade after decade, they had pounded the...

When asked to explain his worldview, the renowned Peruvian political and environmental activist Hugo Blanco liked to tell a story about mushrooms.These mushrooms, he explained, grow only during the rainy season around...

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s issue is written by Natasha Frost, a reporter in Melbourne.Balmy temperatures have...

China’s defense minister, Gen. Li Shangfu, has not been seen in public in more than two weeks, fueling speculation about further upheaval in the military after the abrupt removal of two top...

Hasidic Jews praying near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, in Uman, Ukraine, last year. Despite the war, thousands still converge there at Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.Credit...Atef Safadi/EPA, via...

Ukrainian attacks on Russian-occupied Crimea.

Prioritizing U.S. national security interests over human rights, the Biden administration has approved $235 million in military aid for Egypt that it had withheld for the past two years because of the...

Near the shipyard where the Ukrainian military struck, in Sevastopol, Crimea, on Wednesday.Credit...ReutersAs its soldiers engage in grueling battles to break through heavily fortified Russian lines in southern and eastern Ukraine, Kyiv...