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PARIS — Tens of thousands of people marched in Paris on Sunday to protest rising living costs, amid an increasingly tense political atmosphere marked by strikes at oil refineries and nuclear plants...

Xi Jinping defended his hard-line reign on Sunday, presenting himself to a congress of China’s ruling elite as the leader whose tough policies had saved the nation from the ravages of the...

Xi Jinping Thought is ubiquitous in China, detailed in everything from textbooks to collections of Mr. Xi’s writings, from dedicated research centers to apps for studying his works.In China, having a political...

A resident of the district, whose home abuts the prison, said she could see several buildings in the prison compound on fire and that she had heard screams coming from inside. Speaking...

SYDNEY, Australia — Two people have been killed, hundreds of homes inundated and thousands told to evacuate as flooding again battered Australia’s southeast coast.It comes as the country is still reeling from...

Ten days after Iman’s funeral, the village gathered to grieve once more.Earlier that week, Mr. Akbar’s mother, Sahti, was diagnosed with malaria, given medicine and sent home from a hospital in Hyderabad,...

A Ukrainian boy at a blast-damaged apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka in August. More than 800,000 homes in Ukraine have been destroyed since the start of the war.Credit...David...

WASHINGTON — In conversations with American executives this spring, top officials in the Biden administration revealed an aggressive plan to counter the Chinese military’s rapid technological advances.China was using supercomputing and artificial...

Crews working on Tuesday to repair an electrical system in Kyiv damaged by the missile strikes.Credit...Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York TimesKYIV, Ukraine — Rolling blackouts are plaguing towns and cities across...

There is a growing push within the Biden administration to reshape the relationship with oil-rich Venezuela, as officials seek to contain a crush of migration at the southern border and make progress...