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Mieko Nakabayashi was in a TV studio, waiting to be interviewed about Boris Johnson’s resignation, when she heard that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had been shot during a campaign speech.Ms. Nakabayashi,...

LONDON — Rarely free from scandal and never out of the headlines as Britain’s charismatic prime minister, Boris Johnson dominated British politics, overshadowed his rivals and reinvented his governing Conservative Party in...

Jeff Bezos will not be able to sail a new, more than 400-foot-long superyacht through the waters of the Dutch city of Rotterdam anytime soon.The port city faced an uproar months ago...

LONDON — His support crumbling, his government in disarray, his alibis exhausted, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain tried frantically on Wednesday to salvage his position, even as a delegation of cabinet...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday.Credit...Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament, via Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThis latest scandal, over a deputy whip in Parliament accused of sexual misconduct,...

Families from Lysychansk, eastern Ukraine, evacuated in a van by volunteers last month.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York TimesAn estimated third of Ukraine’s population has been forced from their homes since Russia invaded in...

EAST LONDON, South Africa — Before he passed out amid the crush of bodies, Simbongile Mtsweni gasped for air as a gas that felt like fire crept into his nose and lungs....

LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain suffered a potentially lethal political blow on Tuesday when two of his most senior ministers quit in an apparently coordinated rebellion against his scandal-tainted...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine speaking via video link to attendants of a conference in Lugano, Switzerland, on Monday.Credit...Fabrice Coffrini/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesFor Ukrainians living through war, the cost of the...

For Ukrainians living through war, the cost of the conflict is hard to measure: Thousands of people killed, countless homes and buildings destroyed by missiles, families displaced, livelihoods lost. But international leaders...