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STONEA, England — It is the immovable object that keeps meeting up with a resistible force: a bridge in eastern England that trucks, campers and vans smash into with startling regularity.Located in...

KYIV, Ukraine — Air-raid sirens sounded temporarily in cities throughout Ukraine on Christmas morning after the authorities had warned for days that Russia’s military planned another wave of missile attacks.The air-raid alert...

A gunman killed three people and wounded three others Friday at a Kurdish community center, a hair salon and a restaurant in central Paris in an attack that French officials said appeared...

Every province and territory in Canada issued an emergency weather warning on Saturday, as winter weather left thousands without power, grounded hundreds of flights and caused the pileup of dozens of cars...

JOHANNESBURG — A gas tanker that got stuck beneath a low overpass outside of Johannesburg exploded in a massive plume of fire early Saturday morning, killing at least nine people, injuring at...

Unlike the times before, this year, the Day of Knowledge in Uzbekistan’s far southern settlement of Angor was celebrated not in a dilapidated school of antediluvian times but in a completely new...

BANGUI, Central African Republic — In early March, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its third week, a Russian diplomat nearly 3,000 miles away in the Central African Republic paid an unusual...

KYIV, Ukraine — The director of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said on Friday that Russia was trying to convince Ukraine to divert soldiers from the combat zone in the southeast with a...

President Andrzej Duda of Poland, left, and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during a meeting in Poland on Thursday, in a photo provided by the Polish government.Credit...Jakub Szymczuk/KprpPresident Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine...

NUREMBERG, Germany — Nativity scenes carved of wood, ornaments, candles, children’s toys, gingerbread cookies in myriad shapes, sausages and mulled wine sipped in painted glass mugs.Few places in Germany feel as Christmassy...