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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Escalating street protests have pushed Haiti’s already dire social crisis this week into what regional leaders described as “low-intensity civil war,” leaving residents of the capital cut off from...

His has been a life lived largely without the controversy, and occasional scandals, that have engulfed his relatives; as a result, William has ranked high in popularity polls about the royal family.Indeed,...

Cherelle Griner, Brittney Griner’s wife, during a rally for her wife’s release held in Phoenix in July.Credit...Antranik Tavitian/The Republic/USA Today NetworkWASHINGTON — President Biden will meet with the families of Brittney Griner...

LONDON — The government department that oversees Britain’s state-run health care system is confronting a number of urgent problems: too many unfilled positions for doctors and nurses, too many patients waiting for...

A Russian missile attack on a dam caused flooding in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on Wednesday.Credit...Jim Huylebroek for The New York TimesKRYVYI RIH, Ukraine — A salvo of cruise...

A frantic, chaotic Russian retreatAs the Ukrainian army closed in, the Russian army fled the town of Balakliya in northeastern Ukraine, leaving a trail of desperation and disarray in its wake. Ukraine’s...

Details: Ukraine has advanced faster than expected and is moving to consolidate control over the recaptured territory. Ukraine’s military said it pushed into an additional 20 towns and villages in 24 hours...

Ukraine on Sunday began turning off the last working reactor at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, after concluding that keeping it running could well be the prelude to a nuclear meltdown at...

Humans, like many complex organisms, have large genomes, which contain the codes for our lives. Want to explain your dark hair, thin bones and existential dread? Look to your 46 chromosomes and...

Ukrainian forces’ swift advance in the northeast has increased the pressure on Germany, Europe’s largest economy, to move faster with the delivery of heavy weapons.The outspoken mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, Vitali...