He died as he lived, in a miasma of mystery carrying a whiff of violence, death and deceit.The only public certainty seemed to be a stubborn denial by…
A Moscow court abolished one of Russia’s oldest rights groups. Russian prosecutors banned the work of a group of journalists in exile, labeling it an …
In October 2019, more than a million Chileans took to the streets in what became the country’s biggest ever protest. Few things united them: Some dema…
The country’s rigorous restrictions and vaccine mandates were initially popular with most New Zealanders. But as the rest of the world opened up and N…
LONDON — Charles Byrne never wanted to end up in a museum.Byrne, who stood at least 7 feet 7 inches tall, had found fame and wealth in 18th-century Br…
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — For Mariam Ouédraogo, retelling the stories of the lashings and rapes of women by armed groups in Burkina Faso can be as t…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Sunday dismissed a senior minister recently convicted of tax fraud to comply with a Supreme Court rulin…
With winter conditions bogging down military troops and leaving both sides looking ahead to spring offensives, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday …
Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, inspecting a Leopard 2 tank during a visit to an army training center in Ostenholz, Germany, in October.Credit...Da…
A Lunar New Year rampagePolice in California are on the hunt for a gunman who killed 10 people in the city of Monterey Park in Los Angeles County on S…
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain with NATO troops at a military base in Estonia in December.Credit...Henry Nicholls/ReutersA long-range rocket sy…
KYIV, Ukraine — Several top Ukrainian officials were fired on Tuesday, including the governors of several Ukrainian regions, amid a ballooning corrupt…
Climbing over shards of concrete and metal, scraps of cloth and pulverized furniture, emergency workers found one body after another on Monday, liftin…
WASHINGTON — Reversing its longstanding resistance, the Biden administration plans to send M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, U.S. officials said on Tuesday,…
The singer Natalia Valevska performing at Ohmatdyt Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York TimesGreeting the p…
Abrams tanks at a military exercise in Adazi, Latvia, in 2021.Credit...Ints Kalnins/ReutersWeeks of political wrangling among Western allies over whet…
MANILA — The Nobel laureate Maria Ressa was acquitted of tax evasion on Wednesday, a rare legal victory after numerous setbacks in her fight to keep p…
It was a triumph of political calculation over logistical concerns. It made no sense to the Pentagon to go through the logistical headaches of sending…