The World Health Organization says the number of coronavirus cases rose by 18% in the last week, with more than 4.1 million new cases reported globally. The U.N. health agency said the worldwide … more

Russian President Vladimir Putin has shot back at Western leaders who mocked his athletic exploits, saying they would look “disgusting” if they tried to emulate his bare-torso appearances. Putin … more

How do you grieve when there is no body to be found? How do you move forward when the person you loved vanished into the dust in a matter of seconds? Residents of the quiet, riverside city of … more

Russian troops are fighting to encircle the last bulwark of Ukraine’s resistance in an eastern province as funerals are to be held for those who were killed by a Russian strike on a shopping mall … more

NATO is facing rebukes from Moscow and Beijing after it declared Russia a “direct threat” and said China posed “serious challenges” to global stability. The Western military alliance is … more

NATO leaders are arriving at a conference center in Madrid for the third and final day of their annual summit. The 30-member alliance is due to wrap up its talks with a working session on security … more

As the war grinds on in Ukraine, communities that were badly damaged early in the invasion are starting to rebuild. Villages such as Yahidne in the northern Chernihiv region are gradually returning … more

Hipólito Tica saved for decades to build himself a proper house in a working class neighborhood of Lima. His problem was what to do about “the neighbors” — as he called the centuries-old … more

The U.N. special envoy for Congo is warning that the M23 rebel group has increasingly acted as a conventional army during escalating military action in the country’s volatile east and could … more

NATO has for the first time singled out China as one of its strategic priorities for the next decade, warning about its growing military ambitions, confrontational rhetoric toward Taiwan, and … more