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Has “zero Covid” eroded China’s social contract?President Xi Jinping’s “zero Covid” policy has rewritten the implicit bargain that people in China will get stability and comfort in exchange for limitations on political...

On the 76th day of his long march north through the entire length of India, Rahul Gandhi, scion of a once-mighty political dynasty, walked into a textile-making town in the middle of...

The narrow alleyways of Haizhu district have long beckoned to China’s strivers, people like Xie Pan, a textile worker from a mountainous tea-growing area in central China.Home to one of the country’s...

JOHANNESBURG — As President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa hunkered down with advisers on Friday to discuss a damning corruption report against him, he snubbed a meeting of his party’s top leadership,...

JOHANNESBURG — The political future of South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, grew increasingly grim on Thursday as he huddled with advisers and his opponents lobbied loudly for his resignation a day after...

“Russian forces clearly do not expect to be able to prevent Ukrainian forces from getting across the river, nor are the Russians prioritizing defensive positions to stop such a crossing,” the Institute...

“I don’t think he’s honest or altruistic and I’ll say it to his face,” said Mr. Samoylenko.But in Kherson’s small Jewish community, the remnant of what was once a major strand in...

NEW ORLEANS — Serenaded by a jazz band at the airport, cheered by crowds as he strolled through the French Quarter and even attempting a few dance steps, President Emmanuel Macron plunged...

European Union diplomats have agreed on a $60-per-barrel limit on the price at which Russian oil can be traded outside the bloc, the latest effort by Western allies to try to deprive...

The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine, which was raided by Ukrainian security services in November.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York TimesKYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called for the...