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QUITO, Ecuador — For more than a week, the Andean nation of Ecuador has been buffeted by at times violent protests over a spike in prices for fuel, food and other basic...

A food distribution site in Kabul, in June.Credit...Kiana Hayeri for The New York TimesSince the Taliban seized power from a Western-backed government last year, Afghanistan has struggled with a severe drought, widespread...

A photograph taken during a trip organized by the Russian military showed a Russian serviceman near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in Enerhodar, Ukraine, in May.Credit...Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA, via ShutterstockRussian soldiers who control...

HONG KONG — China is grappling with extreme weather emergencies across the country, with the worst flooding in decades submerging houses and cars in the south and record-high heat waves in the...

And in the east, Russian reconnaissance units have tried to scout Ukrainian artillery positions in an attempt to destroy them and seize higher ground behind the city. “We are being pressed closer...

Mourners prayed and sang during Artemiy Dymyd’s funeral at the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Mr. Dymyd was killed in battle while serving in a special operation unit of the...

The Saudi crown prince was expected in Turkey on Wednesday for his first visit since Saudi agents murdered the prominent dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018, driving a deep...

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — There is no door on Anna Svetlaya’s fridge. A Russian missile blew it off the other day. The detached door saved her, protecting her chest from shrapnel as she...

In pictures: The flaming ruin left by a strike, one of thousands near the eastern front.

Parents who experienced more than two years of anxiety may feel some relief on Tuesday, as much of the United States begins administering coronavirus vaccines to children younger than 5, allowing babies...