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Sheng Chun had not visited his parents in their mountain village in southern China for more than three years because China’s “zero Covid” restrictions made travel difficult. Then the country abandoned its...

There are “two things that Russians require from the state: internal order and external power.”So says a fictional President Vladimir V. Putin in “Le Mage du Kremlin,” or “The Wizard of the...

As frustration at Germany for seemingly dragging its feet on sending Ukraine advanced Leopard 2 tanks mounted on Saturday, Ukrainian officials indicated that they believed it would be only a matter of...

Ms. Afanasieva’s husband, Oleh Valovyi, took things in stride, though. Rockets had rained down on a number of cities that day, and the entire country was under an alert for hours.“There are...

As the Guatemalan authorities intensify a methodical, yearslong crackdown on officials who were tasked with rooting out government corruption in the country, the government announced this week that it was investigating Colombia’s...

Members of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base on Friday.Credit...Thomas Lohnes/Getty ImagesBERLIN — Western defense officials on Friday failed to reach an agreement on exporting German- or American-made battle...

ST. PETERSBURG, Tuesday — On February 6 a special commission will be opened under M. Kovalefsky, director of the Board of trade, to discuss the important question of introducing a general Russian...

The U.S. defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, met with his newly named German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, in Berlin on Thursday, with Germany under pressure to authorize sending German-made Leopard 2 tanks...

William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, traveled to Kyiv last week for secret consultations with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, according to two U.S. officials.Since just before the invasion, Mr. Burns has...

In Paris, near the Place de la Bastille, Thomas Ouvriard, 20, a political science university student, and Ignacio Franzone, 23, a worker at the French post office, hoisted a large poster of...