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A Ukrainian recruit in a mock battle at a training village in southeast England on Monday.Credit...Frank Augstein/Associated PressKENT, England — A commander barked orders to Ukrainian recruits. A group of new soldiers...

The Primorsky beach in Yalta, Crimea, in 2017.Credit...Denis Sinyakov for The New York TimesKYIV, Ukraine — The Crimean Peninsula dangles off Ukraine’s southern coast like a diamond, blessed with a temperate climate,...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — After weeks of uncertainty, a Chinese surveillance vessel docked at a port in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, raising tensions between neighboring India and China as Indian leaders grow...

Despite recent pronouncements by Ukraine’s leadership about the military’s success along the Kherson front, troops have barely moved for weeks. Credit...Daniel Berehulak for The New York TimesMYKOLAIV REGION, Ukraine — In their...

MYKOLAIV REGION, Ukraine — In their summer campaign to drive Russian troops from the southern region of Kherson, Ukraine’s forces have decimated Russian command centers and ammunition depots, severed supply lines with...

William Ruto after casting his ballot in Sugoi, Kenya, last week.Credit...Simon Maina/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesSAMBUT, Kenya — William Ruto spent his childhood on a plot of family land down an unpaved,...

BEIJING — As tensions in the Taiwan Strait reached their highest level in decades, China held the world rapt with a show of military might, deploying its largest-ever military exercises to intimidate...

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Polarized by religion, friends and neighbors turned on each other. Hundreds of thousands were killed and millions displaced. The atrocities were horrific — pregnant women and infants were not spared.That was the...

AMRITSAR, India — For seven decades, Sudarshana Rani has ached to learn her younger brother’s fate. She was just a child when the communal bloodletting that surrounded Britain’s 1947 partition of India...