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They came in buses, in trains, on bicycles, and on foot. Some have camped on a public beach in Colombo for months, while others rustled up scant fuel supplies to reach the...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka in Colombo in February.Credit...Dinuka Liyanawatte/ReutersCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka fled the country on Wednesday, according to four officials, after months of...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s reliance on outdated systems to collect and analyze data on international air travelers continues to hamper its ability to respond quickly to disease threats,...

LONDON — Heathrow Airport said on Tuesday that it would limit the number of passengers until mid-September, citing staff shortages that have led to long lines, delays, lost luggage and last-minute flight...

Rescue workers putting out a fire in a destroyed car after a Russian attack on a residential neighborhood in downtown Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday.Credit...Evgeniy Maloletka/Associated PressRussian strikes killed at least eight people...

BAKHMUT, Ukraine — Over one town, an arc of fireballs burst and drifted down like fireworks, setting gardens and homes ablaze. In another, Russian missiles slammed into a five-story apartment block, shearing...

In 2016, when The New York Times’s pollsters asked Americans whether they planned to vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, more than 10 percent said they would not support either one....

Since late February, when Russia began pummeling Ukraine with missiles and artillery on a scale unseen in Europe for decades, civilian deaths have been as inevitable as the Russian excuses that follow.Attacks...

The global supply of chickpeas may be reduced by as much as 20 percent this year because Russia and Ukraine are two of the world’s biggest exporters of the legume, according to...

With Russian forces in the middle of a purported “operational pause,” some Ukrainians in the country’s battered eastern frontline regions are questioning what that means at a time when their towns are...