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Chisinau, Moldova, in December. The country briefly closed its airspace on Tuesday.Credit...Andreea Campeanu for The New York TimesMoldova briefly closed its airspace because of a presumed air balloon that entered its territory...

Jump to:Watching construction vehicles remove rubble from destroyed buildings in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, on Monday.Credit...Sergey Ponomarev for The New York TimesMore than a week after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, there...

Indian tax agents raided the offices of the BBC in New Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday, weeks after the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried to stop the dissemination of a...

AL-ATARIB, Syria — For years, northwestern Syria has been home to millions of people displaced by war, so many that neighbor no longer knew neighbor. And so when an earthquake struck last...

A Leopard 2 tank being operated by Ukrainian soldiers at a military base in Swietoszow, Poland, on Monday.Credit...Maciek Nabrdalik for The New York TimesSWIETOSZOW, Poland — One by one, Leopard tanks crewed...

One week after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, a severe shortage of tents, housing and medical supplies is imperiling relief efforts and posing new dangers to survivors, many of them...

Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia on Sunday ordered the shutdown of the Voice of Democracy, one of the country’s last independent news outlets, intensifying a long-running crackdown on the news media...

First, Syria’s civil war drove Hind Qayduha from her home in the city of Aleppo. Then, conflict and joblessness forced her family to flee two more times. Two years ago, she came...

PARIS — It all began down a narrow cobblestone road near Place de la Bastille.An artist affixed a mosaic of a Martian from the pioneering 1978 video game Space Invaders to a...

Turkey vowed on Sunday to “meticulously” pursue contractors linked to deadly building collapses in last week’s earthquake as rescue workers pulled more bodies from the rubble and anger rose at the swelling...