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BEIJING — President Emmanuel Macron of France and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, appealed on Thursday for a rapid return to peace talks to end the war in Ukraine, but Mr. Xi...

But Mr. Fu welcomed her statement that the bloc should “de-risk” its relationship with China by setting new ground rules rather than “decoupling” or withdrawing. “I think that is a positive message,...

Days after Russia took the helm of the U.N. Security Council’s rotating presidency, a coalition of more than 50 countries on Wednesday called Moscow’s first event a brazen disinformation showcase and an...

WARSAW — Trading his signature olive-green sweatshirt for a more formal black one, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was welcomed in Warsaw on Wednesday by a military band at the start of...

The Israeli police raided the most sensitive holy site in Jerusalem before dawn on Wednesday after Palestinians barricaded themselves inside a mosque there, setting off a brief exchange of rocket fire from...

Russia’s presidency of the Security Council faced its first show of resistance on Tuesday as Britain, in a rare move, blocked a United Nations webcast of an informal Council meeting this week...

With a simple exchange of documents, Finland on Tuesday became NATO’s 31st member state, a strategic defeat for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who was determined to block the alliance’s expansion...

The urgent message arrived from a Russian human rights group that aids people caught up in the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent.“Friends, sorry!” the spokeswoman for the group, called OVD-Info, wrote to me and...

The Russian authorities blamed Ukraine and Russian opposition activists on Monday for the bombing that killed a popular pro-war blogger a day earlier, signaling that the Kremlin could use the dramatic attack...

Every evening, tens of thousands of gray-headed flying foxes fan across the sky above Melbourne, Australia.By day, these large bats cluster in the trees they help to pollinate, dangling from branches as...