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BEIJING — The crowd was hard to make out at first, a dark mass huddled along the Beijing riverbank after sunset. The people stood quietly, almost nervously, dozens bundled in thick coats...

A Ukrainian soldier making his way through the rubble of a building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, last week.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York TimesUkrainian officials are warning that Russia is preparing to unleash a new...

Protesters lash out at China’s Covid restrictionsAfter at least 10 people died in an apartment building fire in the western Chinese city of Urumqi, many suspected that a Covid lockdown had hampered...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Gunmen wearing suicide vests and believed to be members of a militant group attacked a hotel popular with government officials in the capital of Somalia on Sunday, according to...

The fire began with a faulty power strip in a bedroom on the 15th floor of an apartment building in China’s far west. Firefighters spent three hours putting it out — too...

Over pepper steaks at a Caribbean restaurant, the man complimented Mr. Wabelua for keeping things “trill”— refusing to give the police any information. But, he said, Mr. Wabelua owed him about $4,000...

Protests spread to cities and campuses in China on Saturday night amid rising public anger at the country’s strict but faltering controls against the spread of Covid, with a crowd in Shanghai...

KYIV, Ukraine — When Joseph Stalin engineered a famine designed to break the will of Ukrainians opposed to the Kremlin’s farming policies, he turned the grain-rich breadbasket of Europe into a land...

At least one person was killed and nearly a dozen were missing on Saturday on the southern Italian island of Ischia, where heavy rains caused a landslide that engulfed streets, vehicles and...

“They paid off their debts,” Ms. Hun Daneth said. “Their lives could start like new.”The scout was connected to an agency managed locally by a Chinese man and his Cambodian wife. Her...