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Ayman al-Zawahri, the Egyptian-born surgeon-turned-jihadist who assumed the leadership of Al Qaeda after the killing of Osama bin Laden and who died at 71 in a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, over...

Grain bins storing corn, wheat, sunflower and soybeans in Boryspil, Ukraine, in May. Credit...Nicole Tung for The New York TimesBRUSSELS — There are many moving parts to the grain deal Russia and...

Social scientists have made it a priority in recent years to understand upward mobility. They have used tax records and other data to study which factors increase the chances that children who...

NIKOPOL, Ukraine — Along most of the front line in Russia’s war in Ukraine, when one side lets loose with an artillery attack, the other shoots back.But not in Nikopol, a city...

CHENNAI, India — Amul Vasudevan, a vegetable hawker in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, thought she was going to go out of business.The state had forbidden retailers to use disposable...

Natasha, 46, a mother of six children, milking a cow at her home in Donetsk Province, Ukraine.Credit...Mauricio Lima for The New York TimesTwo of Natasha’s children by a corral for the cattle.Credit...Mauricio...

Book-banning attempts have grown in the U.S. over the past few years from relatively isolated battles to a broader effort aimed at works about sexual and racial identity. Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth...

Gangs are increasing their chokehold on Haiti’s capital, using bulldozers to raze entire neighborhoods, overwhelming poorly armed police and taking their violence to within blocks of the seat of government.While Haitians have...

LONDON — Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, faced new scrutiny over the financing of his charities on Saturday after a report found that one organization had accepted a donation of...

They have handed out Russian passports, cellphone numbers and set-top boxes for watching Russian television. They have replaced Ukrainian currency with the ruble, rerouted the internet through Russian servers and arrested hundreds...