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Exploding drones are lumbering and noisy and relatively easy to shoot from the sky and, over the New Year’s weekend, Ukraine says, its military downed every single one of about 80 that...

“The entire West has closed ranks against us in order to destroy us,” Yekaterina Kolotovkina, the head of a soldiers’ humanitarian fund and the wife of a Russian general fighting in Ukraine,...

Fixing electrical wires at the site of a Russian missile strike in Kyiv on Sunday.Credit...Laura Boushnak for The New York TimesUkraine shot down all of the exploding drones that Russia had fired...

The United States, Israel’s most important ally, has warned against any change to the arrangements at the site. Speaking last month at a conference of J Street, a liberal Jewish advocacy group...

In one of their deadliest attacks yet on Russian forces, Ukrainians used American-made rockets to kill dozens — and perhaps hundreds — of Moscow’s troops in a New Year’s Day strike behind...

VATICAN CITY — As thousands of Roman Catholics flowed into St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday morning to see Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI lie in state and pay their last respects, bereft conservatives...

A hotel in Kyiv, Ukraine, was heavily damaged after being hit in a Russian strike on Saturday.Credit...Laura Boushnak for The New York TimesKYIV, Ukraine — As small crowds gathered on Saturday at...

A cruise through the glittering blue waters from Auckland to Sydney should have been a holiday-season highlight for passengers, many of whom had saved years for it.Instead of making stops along the...

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took the reins of the Brazilian government on Sunday in an elaborate inauguration, complete with a motorcade, music festival and hundreds of thousands of supporters filling...

MASHPEE, Mass. — Ashley K. Fisher walked to the edge of the boat, pulled on a pair of thick black waders, and jumped into the river to search for the dead.She soon...