Germany said it would send air-defense tanks to Ukraine, a reversal of policy, as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin gathered officials from over 40 countries to discuss supplying more arms.

Mr. Roth joined Human Rights Watch when it was a fledgling organization. It has expanded into one of the most influential human rights advocacy groups.

China’s capital reported 22 cases as it kicked off an ambitious mandatory testing campaign across the city and reassured residents that food and other supplies were plentiful.

The former British prime minister will speak with Peter Baker of The New York Times on May 2.

The TV show “Barrack O’Karma 1968” fueled debate online. To many Filipinos, it was about racism and classism. Other viewers jumped to the actress’s defense.

France’s runoff election was marked by a record level of abstention, and many cast a ballot only to keep the far right from power — a testament to a growing disillusionment.

The world’s richest person didn’t like Twitter. So he’s buying it.

In a speech, Kim Jong-un, the country’s leader, vowed to expand his nuclear arsenal ​“at the fastest possible speed​.”

The increasing openness of Jewish life in the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai is another sign of an emerging new reality in the Middle East, where Israel’s isolation by the Arab world is ebbing.

As the authorities in China’s biggest city fight to stamp out an Omicron outbreak, neighbors are turning to one another for support.

Maybe, according to a growing number of studies, but there’s not yet a definitive answer.

President Biden nominated a new ambassador to Ukraine after a high-stakes trip to Kyiv by two top U.S. officials. Within hours of the visit, Russian missiles struck at least five railway stations across the country.

Emmanuel Macron’s 17-point margin over the far-right challenger Marine Le Pen was greeted with relief in Western capitals. Economic issues are expected to be a priority of his second term.

France seems in search of a kinder, gentler, greener President Macron. He says he will listen.

U.S. military aims in Ukraine.

Hours after the American secretaries of defense and state met with Ukraine’s president in Kyiv, Russia hit at least five Ukrainian railway stations in rocket attacks.

The U.S. Embassy, which closed just before Russia’s invasion, could reopen “over a couple of weeks,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

Supermarkets stocked up as panic buying began. Municipal authorities ordered that almost all residents be tested three times this week to contain a rising number of cases.

The United States is edging toward a dynamic that pits Washington more directly against Moscow, and one that U.S. officials see as likely to play out for years.

No injuries were reported in the area that has a large ethnic Russian population.

Plus a lockdown looms over Beijing and the U.S. flexes in Ukraine.

The Hungarian leader had cast his own victory as the start of a nationalist wave in Europe — one that Marine Le Pen would have joined. Instead, Mr. Macron’s victory in France is a win for the European Union’s approach.

China is meddling with free enterprise as it hadn’t in decades. The results are familiar to those old enough to remember: scarcity, and the rise of black markets.

Osman Kavala, a well-known activist, was found guilty of charges related to popular protests in 2013.

Ukrainian politics were known for sharp-elbowed infighting. But as he defends his country against the Russian invasion, President Volodymyr Zelensky has his government presenting a unified front.

For years, the United States sent mixed signals about its interests in the country. Then Vladimir V. Putin made his move.

After President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine spilled the secret that the secretaries of state and defense would visit, the two cabinet members decided to press onward regardless.

Russian state television reported two separate explosions, but officials acknowledged only one.

A suspect was in custody Monday morning, and the police say they believe the attacker and the victims knew each other.

The American government refused to comment on reports that Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had traveled to Ukraine to meet with its leaders.

President Biden nominated Bridget Brink, the current U.S. ambassador to Slovakia, as ambassador to Ukraine. The position has been empty for more than a year.

As is true throughout rural Japan, many of the once-vibrant villages on Honshu’s Kii Peninsula are aging into nothingness.

Mr. Macron’s opponent, Marine Le Pen, was seen in Russia as a potential game-changing option, amid the threat of new sanctions over the war in Ukraine.

Emmanuel Macron won, but radical politics isn’t going away.

The country’s prime minister, Janez Jansa, a Trump admirer, appears to have lost to centrist rivals.

In the basement of a battered school in Kharkiv, a dozen residents have taken shelter. In a neighborhood not far away, life has returned to some sense of normalcy. But they choose to stay.

Soviet-designed ammunition is part of the ‘life blood’ for Ukrainian troops fighting Russia, and the United States is keeping it flowing.

Top U.S. officials in Ukraine.

The Indian prime minister aims to ease decades of turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir through projects like a solar plant.

The assault by hundreds of Janjaweed fighters, the latest in a series of clashes, was another sign of Sudan's deepening security and political crisis.

The result was a relief to allies in Europe and Washington wary of a far-right challenger who was hostile to the European Union and NATO.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III met Sunday with President Volodymyr Zelensky, the first senior U.S. officials known to have visited Ukraine since the invasion.

Plus an announced visit by top U.S. officials to Kyiv, while New Zealand and Japan announce closer diplomatic ties.

Capt. Svyatoslav Palamar says he and others would give up the factory if they could leave safely.

At times, Russian soldiers were almost friendly, advising them how to avoid shelling and showing them pictures of their own children.

Cairo’s oldest cemetery is being razed, and thousands of families living amid the grand mausoleums face eviction. “You’re not at ease when you’re living. You’re not at ease even when you’re dead.”

Old geopolitical foes are facing off after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but much of the world is refusing to take sides.

Sixteen people were still missing, more than 24 hours after the sightseeing vessel was lost off the coast of Hokkaido island.

Akihiko Kondo and thousands of others are in devoted fictional relationships, served by a vast industry aimed at satisfying the desires of a fervent fan culture.