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Vice President Kamala Harris arriving in Munich on Thursday for the Munich Security Conference.Credit...Angelika Warmuth/DPA, via Associated PressLast year, mere days before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, dozens of officials from Western nations...

LUXEMBOURG — Luxembourg’s military consists of fewer than 1,000 troops, one cargo plane, two helicopters shared with police forces and fewer than 200 trucks, ranging from Humvees to about 10 state-of-the-art Dingo...

In Hawke’s Bay, cows swam for their lives. In Northland, unremitting winds toppled electricity poles like matchsticks. And throughout New Zealand’s sodden North Island, people who had lost homes and livelihoods looked...

WASHINGTON — A People’s Liberation Army veteran turned drone manufacturer. A Shanghai real estate company that wagered there was more profit in high-altitude airships. An eminent Chinese aviation scientist who started more...

At least six Russian balloons floated over the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Wednesday, triggering air-raid sirens before most of them were shot down, Ukrainian officials said, prompting speculation about the balloons’ purpose...

Russia and Ukraine are depleting ammunition stocks at a staggering pace in the nearly yearlong war, putting pressure on weapons makers globally to meet demand and forcing Moscow to turn to allies...

Other murky actions have challenged U.S. analysts trying to read Chinese intentions. On Jan. 28, when the balloon approached the Aleutian Islands and American airspace over Alaska in its off-course trajectory, the...

Green rolling hills surround the sleepy Cornish village of Lostwithiel, a quaint town of just 5,000 people in southwest England with two bustling pubs, a small church, and even its own castle.But...

Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister of Scotland, is expected to resign from her position of more than eight years.Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York TimesLONDON — Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the...

Scattered across a neighborhood in central Kabul are the ruins of another empire come and gone from Afghanistan.Tattered sandbags and piles of discarded barbed wire. Metal hulls of tank traps sitting unused...