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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine has jolted Taiwan into confronting the specter of a sudden attack from the island’s own larger and more powerful neighbor: China.The invasion has given...

MOSHCHENKA, Ukraine— The tanks are gone now, and the thousands of Russian soldiers who poured into northern Ukraine in February have retreated back across the border.But fear still prevails in this quiet...

A Ukrainian soldier crouched in position during fighting on the front line in Sievierodonetsk last week.Credit...Oleksandr Ratushniak/Associated PressKYIV, Ukraine — As the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk appears close to falling to Russia,...

He is fighting for his political survival at home, but Britain’s embattled prime minister, Boris Johnson, can take some comfort: He has been immortalized as a croissant in Kyiv.And, by all accounts,...

BRUSSELS — Losing ground to Russia’s brutal advance in the east, Ukraine on Monday demanded an arsenal of sophisticated Western weapons many times greater than what has been promised, or even discussed,...

When W. Larry Kenney, a professor of physiology at Pennsylvania State University, began studying how extreme heat harms humans, his research focused on workers inside the disaster-stricken Three Mile Island nuclear plant,...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine addressed European Union leaders in Brussels last month.Credit...Olivier Matthys/Associated PressBRUSSELS — Ukraine’s European allies are facing questions of both tactical and political importance as bloody battles in...

David Chou and Pastor Billy Chang spent their whole lives forging parallel paths. They were born in early 1950s Taiwan, grew up just miles apart during martial law and later rebuilt their...

Between the loud thuds of artillery shells landing a few blocks away, dozens of people emerged from a communal shelter in this eastern Ukrainian city Saturday to receive packets of food from...

PSZCZYNA, Poland — It was shortly before 11 p.m. when Izabela Sajbor realized the doctors were prepared to let her die.Her doctor had already told her that her fetus had severe abnormalities...