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PARIS — For those trying to offset France’s increasingly sweltering summers by building swimming pools, the tax authorities have a message: If you’re thinking of saving money by keeping your pool hidden...

A Communist Party congress that is poised to anoint Xi Jinping as China’s top leader for another five years will open in Beijing on Oct. 16, officials announced on Tuesday.The starting date...

Ukraine bolsters its counteroffensiveUkrainian forces launched ground assaults yesterday in multiple areas along the front in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine, apparently stepping up a counteroffensive aimed at recapturing territory seized...

Biden seems to fear, perhaps correctly, that voters might view him as weak if he acknowledged his stuttering. As it is, his critics and political opponents mock his speaking style and claim...

Record heat and drought in ChinaA record-setting drought and an 11-week heat wave are causing broad disruption in southwestern China, a region that depends on dams for more than three-quarters of its...

Devastating floods have surged across Pakistan, overflowing riverbanks and bridges, inundating houses and fields and killing more than 100 people this weekend, officials said late Saturday.The floods, which have been driven by...

The United Nations conference on nuclear nonproliferation, in which Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke, ended this month without the adoption of a joint document by participating nations.Credit...Yuki Iwamura/Associated PressRussia blocked...

President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia announced on Saturday that he would not permit EuroPride, an annual weeklong gay pride event, to take place next month in his country’s capital, Belgrade, shocking the...

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant seen from the banks of the Dnipro River earlier this month. The plant, the largest of its kind in Europe, is under the control of Russian forces.Credit...David...

NAIROBI, Kenya — An Ethiopian government airstrike ripped through a kindergarten in the northern Tigray region on Friday, killing at least seven people including several children, medics said, as the hunger-stricken region...