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Mykhailo Fedorov defended his efforts to modernize the Ukrainian armed forces as thousands of people protested his dismissal.

As the renewed fighting entered its sixth day, both sides appeared to leave the door open to more negotiations to end the war.

President Trump, who promised to “end wars,” not start them, may have fallen into a familiar presidential trap.

With India lagging in the technology, officials are embracing giant data centers. But critics say the megaprojects will use up energy and water, without providing long-term jobs.

Mykhailo Fedorov announced he was leaving the ministry on Wednesday after conflicts with generals and military contractors over the role of innovative weaponry.

Mr. Fedorov became the youthful face of Ukraine’s successful drone warfare program. The move to replace him has prompted street protests.

An annual survey from the Pew Research Center found that more countries felt positively about China than America.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed a series of laws undermining legal oversight of the government, benefiting allied media outlets and aiming to shore up ultra-Orthodox political support.

The fire Thursday morning at an orphanage near the nation’s capital killed 11 people, including children, and injured a dozen, the authorities said.

Giovanni Castellucci oversaw a company that managed the Morandi Bridge in Genoa when it fell down in 2018, killing 43 people.

Other booksellers have been detained in recent months as part of a broad national security crackdown.

France and Germany want to quit relying on America and China for key technology like artificial intelligence, but they’re having to choose where to do it.

Sonam Wangchuk, a longtime activist, has fasted for 19 days, joining forces with a student-led campaign to change India’s education system.

The hit Netflix show follows the life of a wealthy married couple in South Africa as they deal with the pressures of infidelity and appearances.

It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system.

The case has drawn comparisons to the Pelicot trial in France, which started a discussion across Europe about sexual assault and consent.

Our correspondent talked about the challenges of covering major news while under surveillance and filing his work without reliable internet access.

Argentina and Britain fought a bloody war over the islands in 1982. Decades later, the dispute suffuses matches between England and Argentina.

The beloved New Zealand actor best known for his turn in “Jurassic Park” had “fought and beaten” lymphoma before he fell ill, according to a statement.

The U.S. military has appeared to widen its targets in Iran, while Iran has fired at bases belonging to American allies in the Middle East.

India is developing new data centers to secure a foothold in the global A.I. race. Our South Asia bureau chief, Mujib Mashal, discusses how a new Google campus’s potential use of the region’s already strained energy and water resources is creating anxiety among local residents.

The dual Iranian-U.S. citizen, Dena Karari, had her passport seized in December 2024 and had not been able to leave Iran as she faced espionage charges.

The nation’s years of pain continue.

Facing intense divisions within Iran, Gen. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf both struck a defiant tone and argued that diplomacy could defend Iran’s interests.

Two decades after the fall of apartheid in South Africa, he served briefly as Africa’s only white president.

President Trump may have fallen into the same trap that his predecessors did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our chief diplomatic correspondent explains why.

On the fifth straight day of fighting, the U.S. launched a 90-minute attack on Iran, while Tehran targeted Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait.

Threatening imagery in Enghelab Square is nothing new, but has rarely taken such lurid form.

The U.S. military said on Wednesday it had attacked Iranian cruise missile storage and launch sites on Greater Tunb, one of several small islands in the Strait of Hormuz subject to a decades-old territorial dispute.

Air quality in Canada’s largest city was at times the worst in the world on Wednesday, as wildfires across Ontario sent smoke drifting into New York City and beyond.

Climate change and shifting demographics are driving the country’s Asiatic black bears closer to humans.

Lawmakers approved a bill that will allow doctors to help terminally ill patients to die, adding France to a short list of nations that allow the practice.

The memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran has done little to calm tension, in part because they disagree on what it actually means.

The country will also seek to protect the rights of creators of work used to train artificial intelligence models, as it aims to impose parameters on the growing industry.

Higher prices for energy, food and air travel are likely to persist as the two sides escalate their clash over the Strait of Hormuz and launch airstrikes in the Middle East.

Officials see a return to full-blown war as preferable to an agreement that fails to curb the threats Iran poses to Israel. Meanwhile, they wait.

A list of alleged crimes has not prevented Diosdado Cabello, and other Venezuelan officials, from working with a U.S. government that once hounded them.

After striking roads and railways, Kyiv is now focusing on sea routes as it tries to disrupt fuel supplies and pressure Russia to end the war.