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Facilities have been battered. Coaches are in short supply. Children have moved abroad. Ukraine faces a long hard road toward rebuilding its athletic programs.

On an epic trip, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken tried to reassure Asian leaders about American commitments. But China remains the enduring backyard behemoth.

Iranians say they have not been told how to prepare should broad hostilities break out between their country and Israel.

Since the Move Forward Party won the last election with a call for change, conservative forces have kept it out of power. Now, it no longer exists.

The American and British ambassadors to Japan said they would not attend an event to mark the atomic bomb strike in Nagasaki because Israel’s ambassador was excluded.

Trying to head off a Middle East war, several countries are pressing Iran to temper its retaliation for the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran.

Several countries in the Middle East, led by U.S. allies, are encouraging Iran to craft a limited response to the killing of a Hamas leader in Tehran that would avoid a wider regional war.

The artist’s driver’s license was revoked and he may face disciplinary action after failing a breath test, his agency said.

Artistic swimming is a crowd-pleaser and much harder than it used to be, but it has had to make the case that it is even a sport at all.

The last living person was saved from the rubble on Wednesday after a centuries-old structure collapsed the night before.

In a ceremony in Paris, the American team received the medals they won after the Russian skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified.

Athletes at the Paris Olympics have been sporting some seriously high-wattage accessories. Here are nine of our favorites.

A young skater’s emergence signals a pivot in the way an Olympic power defines success. But its handling of the table tennis competition suggests old expectations may persist, too.

A young skater’s emergence signals a pivot in the way an Olympic power defines success. But its handling of the table tennis competition suggests old expectations may persist, too.

Artistic swimming is a crowd-pleaser and much harder than it used to be, but it has had to make the case that it is even a sport at all.

Her career began during apartheid and outlived it, reaching a personal milestone in a blockbuster movie and its sequel.

Troops and armored fighting vehicles crossed into Russia’s western Kursk region on Tuesday, according to Moscow and independent analysts. Ukrainian officials have not commented.

A new study found that temperatures in the Coral Sea have reached their highest levels in at least four centuries.

While Belarus played a role in the sweeping prisoner exchange last week, none of the 1,400 people classified as political prisoners in the country by a human rights group were freed.

Experts say the arson attacks before the opening of the Paris Olympics bear the hallmarks of insurrectionary anarchists opposed to the state.