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China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, spoke by telephone on Wednesday, in the first known contact between the two leaders since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Mr. Zelensky said he “had...

The girls arrive at the makeshift cricket ground on their bicycles, a narrow file of white athletic uniforms breezing down a dirt track that cuts through lush wheat fields in India’s Punjab...

This is one in an occasional series of dispatches about life amid the war in Ukraine.OLEKSANDRO-SHULTYNE, Ukraine — The bombardment began at night. Rockets rained down. On one street, every house blew...

A group of leading Russian lawyers on Tuesday asked the country’s highest court to declare unconstitutional a law banning criticism of the armed forces, in a rare display of opposition to the...

LONDON — Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper group paid Prince William, the heir to the British throne, a “huge sum of money” in 2020 to settle claims that its journalists hacked his cellphone,...

Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, in March.Credit...Sputnik/via ReutersThe Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said on Monday that his son had fought in Ukraine, highlighting the Moscow elite’s uneven participation in a...

Venezuela’s most prominent opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, said late Monday that he had been forced out of Colombia, hours after crossing the border into the country after receiving threats from the Venezuelan...

A Russia deeply enmeshed in the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II dispatched its foreign minister to the United Nations Security Council on Monday to extol the virtues of peace...

In America, the slogan “the Champagne of Beers” that decorates cans of Miller High Life is rarely taken literally, but European regulators took it at face value last week, seizing and destroying...

Lu Shaye, China’s ambassador to France, in 2019. On French television on Friday, he said post-Soviet countries “do not have an effective status in international law.”Credit...Sebastien Nogier/EPA, via ShutterstockFrance summoned the Chinese...