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President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he was replacing his minister of defense, the biggest shake-up in the leadership of Ukraine’s war effort since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February last year,...

China tries to enlist ordinary people to root out spiesChina’s ruling Communist Party is enlisting ordinary people to guard against perceived threats to the country, in a campaign that blurs the line...

Russian forces launched waves of drones at the Odesa region of southern Ukraine in an hourslong overnight assault, officials said on Sunday, the latest bombardment to target port infrastructure since Moscow pulled...

I slip into the water and push off quickly before the man swimming like a breast-stroking porpoise gets any closer. Below me, the aluminum bottom of the pool plays with the sunlight,...

The remnants of Hurricane Idalia were dissipating on Saturday and pulling away from Bermuda, days after it made landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast and swept across the Southeast.On Friday, the storm, which...

Beijing sees forces bent on weakening it everywhere: embedded in multinational companies, infiltrating social media, circling naïve students. And it wants its people to see them, too.Chinese universities require faculty to take...

No one was in the dark about what was happening at 80 Albert Street. In January 2019, a Johannesburg city official was so shocked by what she saw during a visit —...

Although scientists have long known that flora and fauna in Central Europe still carry traces of radiation stemming from the 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, a new...

As Paris was banning e-scooters, European cities of comparable size, like Berlin, threw their weight behind the devices. Berlin has five scooter operators and 40,000 registered e-scooters zooming across the city. “There’s...

On Sunday, following the Times report, Representative Gregory W. Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement that “Saudi forces must immediately cease these...