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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has long denied seeking to use his power to undermine his long-running corruption trial, and rejected the notion that his government’s ongoing judicial overhaul was partly...

Ukrainian soldiers preparing to fire mobile artillery toward Russian positions in the Zaporizhzhia region, this month.Credit...David Guttenfelder for The New York TimesRussia launched blistering artillery and aerial bombardments across southern Ukraine early...

Ukraine begins the main thrust of its counteroffensiveThousands of reinforcements poured into the two-month battle in the nation’s southeast, many of them trained and equipped by the West and, until now, held...

Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the Wagner mercenary chief, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, last month.Credit...Alexander Ermochenko/ReutersWhen President Vladimir V. Putin said recently that the Wagner mercenary group legally “does not exist,” a collection of social...

Mario Voigt, a leader of Germany’s mainstream conservative party, has watched with concern the slow but steady string of victories notched by the far-right Alternative for Germany, known as the AfD.In his...

When President Vladimir V. Putin said recently that the Wagner mercenary group legally “does not exist,” a collection of social media accounts that have historically been associated with Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the...

Russia seeks to expand its armyRussian lawmakers on Tuesday voted to raise the top age for military conscription, aiming to expand the pool of trained recruits who could potentially join the war...

Russian lawmakers on Tuesday voted to raise the top age for military conscription, aiming to expand the pool of trained recruits who could potentially join the battle in Ukraine.The measure, if approved...

Only five weeks ago, China’s foreign minister, Qin Gang, was at the center of an important restoration of high-level diplomacy in U.S.-China relations: He shook hands with Secretary of State Antony J....

Typhoon Doksuri, a tropical cyclone moving through the Pacific Ocean with wind speeds equivalent to that of a Category 4 hurricane, was forecast to potentially hit the northern Philippines on Tuesday before...