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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...

Militias backed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards force attacked a U.S. military base in southern Syria with drones recently and on the same day, a different base used by the U.S.-led coalition near...

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex, across the Dnipro River from Nikopol, in July.Credit...David Guttenfelder for The New York TimesKYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s largest nuclear plant was reconnected to the national power grid on...

A U.N. report on abuses in Xinjiang faces further delayMichelle Bachelet, the U.N.’s top human rights official, promised in June that she would release a long-awaited report about allegations of abuses in...

Destroyed Russian armored vehicles were paraded in Kyiv on Sunday.Credit...Jim Huylebroek for The New York TimesKYIV, Ukraine — Even as the Ukrainian government sought to bolster the nation’s resolve with defiant commemorations...