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The view from villagers’ gardens on the northern shore of the Kakhovka Reservoir has changed significantly in the four days since an explosion destroyed the nearby dam and the waters receded.Mud flats...

Floodwaters in a residential neighborhood after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, on Friday, in Kherson, Ukraine.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York TimesThe surge of flooding around the Dnipro River in southern...

Canada is burning.That, at least, is the perception around the world as hundreds of fires have convulsed the country, forced tens of thousands of people to flee and sounded a global alarm...

Four Colombian children who survived in the Colombian jungle for 40 days after their plane crashed were eager to play and asked for books to read, officials said on Saturday, one day...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday offered the strongest confirmation yet that the long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive to drive Russia back had begun.“Counteroffensive and defensive actions are being taken in Ukraine,”...

In the south, Ukrainian soldiers are fighting on an unforgiving landscape, table-flat farmland with little cover for troops trying to advance.Sixty miles away, they are attacking across the plains in a coal...

People burned out of their homes by the hundreds. Villages, even refugee camps, raked with gunfire. Men, women and children beaten and set ablaze by angry mobs.India, the world’s most populous country...

With so much toxic wildfire smoke moving across the Canadian border and upending life across the Eastern United States, it raises a troubling question: Will there be more of this in the...

An explosion in a flooded area of Kherson, Ukraine, on Thursday. Ukrainian officials accused Russian forces of shelling several locations in the city.Credit...Stas Kozliuk/EPA, via ShutterstockAs floodwaters started to recede in the...

The Ukrainian soldiers sped along a dirt road, their pickup truck bouncing over ruts, lest they become an easy target for Russian tanks across the Dnipro River.Nearby, Russian howitzers fired with deafening...