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COP27 beginsThe 27th annual U.N. climate talks, known as COP27, began yesterday. At the top of the agenda for developing countries is financing for loss and damage: Who will pay for the...

KEELUNG, Taiwan — Visitors to Keelung, a mountainous port city on Taiwan’s northern coast, might reasonably think that the white wall at the back of Shi Hui-hua’s breakfast shop is, well, a...

At the International Military-Technical Forum in Moscow in August. Russia is the world’s second largest arms exporter after the United States.Credit...Nanna Heitmann for The New York TimesArms sales have long been an...

For their part, South Korea and the United States demonstrated their own combined air power superiority this past week, with warplanes conducting ​a record 1,600 sorties during the Vigilant Storm exercise.On Saturday,...

Is beauty really in the eye of the beholder? This is a question Canadian medical student Dominic Thibault asked himself when embarking on a journey to define human beauty in a completely...

WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner arrives to a hearing at the Khimki Court, outside Moscow in August.Credit...Kirill Kudryavtsev/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesU.S. officials met with the jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner...

Even by the standards of New Zealand, which in the 1990s marketed itself as at “the edge of the world,” Haast is remote. The local school has just eight students. The nearest...

An evacuation train in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, in September.Credit...Nicole Tung for The New York TimesA family that fled Russian-occupied territory crossing into Zaporizhzhia in August.Credit...David Guttenfelder for The New York TimesA woman and...

A top-ranked infrastructure broker and his team, which oversaw $3 billion in client contracts, have formed to open an independent firm, prompted to do so because of increasing client and government demand...

Ethiopia and Tigray agree to a truceAfter 10 days of peace talks in South Africa, the Ethiopian government and forces in the country’s northern Tigray region have agreed to what they called...