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Acute shortages have meant that medicines can’t be transported and fresh produce from farms can’t make it to cities.

Security forces firing tear gas and used water cannons in an attempt to disperse protesters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Saturday.Credit...Chamila Karunarathne/EPA, via ShutterstockCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, whose family...

In a screenshot from a video released by Russia’s interior ministry, Marc Fogel sat at a security point in a Moscow airport last year, before his arrest.Credit...Russian Interior Ministry With the spotlight...

NUSA DUA, Indonesia — He was like a skunk at the tropical resort party, shunned by many, though by no means all.Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, attended a meeting of finance...

WASHINGTON — Russia vetoed a measure on Friday that would have allowed the last U.N. aid route into Syria to remain open for another year, in a vote that diplomats and critics...

Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, on Friday in Bali, Indonesia.Credit...Pool photo by Stefani ReynoldsNUSA DUA, Indonesia — He was a skunk at the tropical resort party, shunned by many, though not...

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...