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Six people died and dozens more were hospitalized for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out overnight in a retirement home in Milan, the authorities said Friday, adding that the toll could...

The United States appears to be on the verge of providing Ukraine with cluster munitions, a senior Biden administration official said. Kyiv has been pushing for the controversial and widely banned type...

Biden weighs cluster munitions for UkraineAfter more than six months of deliberation, President Biden appeared on the verge of agreeing to ship cluster munitions to Ukraine. These are widely banned weapons known...

WASHINGTON — John Kerry, President Biden’s special envoy for climate change, said on Thursday he would travel to China next week to restart global warming negotiations between the world’s two largest polluters.Mr....

After a day and a night in which the couple tried to make him confess and reveal the poachers’ routes into the park, he said, Mr. Owens drove him to an airstrip.“‘Mutondo,...

President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus addressing journalists in Minsk, the capital, on Thursday.Credit...Nanna Heitmann for The New York TimesMINSK, Belarus — The mercenary leader Yevgeny V. Prigozhin is in Russia, the...

When will Sweden join NATO?In less than a week, NATO leaders will meet in Vilnius, Lithuania. But the prime minister of Sweden will continue not to be among them, given the continued...

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant seen after the Dnipro River’s water levels were affected by the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam.Credit...Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York TimesRussia and Ukraine accused each...

Why It Matters: Germany has long neglected military spending.Despite intense pressure from the United States, Germany last spent 2 percent of its G.D.P. on defense in 1991, a year after the reunification...

Israel’s military said on Wednesday that it had withdrawn from the occupied West Bank city of Jenin after a large-scale incursion that killed at least 12 Palestinians, left one Israeli soldier dead...