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Speaker Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan’s legislature in Taipei, the capital, on Wednesday.Credit...Ann Wang/ReutersAfter weeks of silence ahead of a high-stakes visit to Taiwan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was anything but understated on Wednesday...

Although much of the attention has been on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the real potential for a military showdown will come after she leaves.China’s military has said it would conduct...

Demonstrators for and against Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan gathered outside the Grand Hyatt hotel, where she is staying during her visit, on Tuesday evening. TAIPEI, Taiwan — The news media...

There’s an unwritten code among sailors: Do not talk about politics and religion when at sea.But soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, it became clear to Andrian Kudelya, a 35-year-old sailor from Kyiv,...

The Razoni leaving the port of Odesa, Ukraine, on Monday.Credit...Oleksandr Gimanov/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesBRUSSELS — The first ship laden with grains to leave Ukraine’s Black Sea ports since the Russian invasion...

WASHINGTON — The White House announced on Monday that the United States would send another $550 million in arms to Ukraine to help it fend off Russian invaders, increasing the total American...

WITH more than half its remaining allies in Central America and the Caribbean region, Taiwan has long been devoted to funding those five regional countries’ development and playing an active role in...

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...