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Shortly after Russia shocked the world by attacking Ukraine on Feb. 24, Ilya V. Yashin, a local Moscow councilman and prominent opposition figure, decided it was time to see a dentist.The Kremlin...

Ukrainian soldiers in a bunker in the south of the country last week.Credit...Daniel Berehulak for The New York TimesUkraine expressed a heightened sense of urgency on Thursday over its looming counteroffensive in...

Britain’s power grid raised the prospect of a tight energy supply this winter, publishing an unusual early forecast to help the energy industry prepare for strains over the winter related to the...

“Any member that wants to go should. It shows political deterrence to President Xi,” said Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who had to...

BRUSSELS — As the number of politicians, activists and journalists hacked with spyware grew to include prime ministers and prominent dissidents in the European Union, the world’s biggest democratic club, the European...

The American basketball star Brittney Griner testified in a Russian court on Wednesday, in a case that has turned her into an unlikely pawn in a diplomatic tussle between Russia and the...

Graham Phillips in 2018, as he was being escorted away by police officers after he disrupted a news conference in London.Credit...Peter Nicholls/ReutersA British citizen had his assets frozen by Britain’s Foreign Office...

VideoEuropean Union energy ministers agreed on a deal that encourages members of the bloc to voluntarily cut their natural gas consumption by 15 percent in order to manage their dependence on Russian...

Kraken, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is under federal investigation, suspected of violating U.S. sanctions by allowing users in Iran and elsewhere to buy and sell digital tokens, according to...

Wearing a black and gray sweatshirt with the slogan “Black lives for peace” printed on the back, Brittney Griner, the W.N.B.A. star who has been detained in Russia on drug charges, appeared...