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There’s been outsize international attention on the next mayor of New York City. Today, I write about why.

President Trump’s policy has shut the door on all but a tiny fraction of people across the world seeking refuge in the United States from conflict, persecution or both.

The Kremlin is focusing its fire on Pokrovsk, a gateway to the Donetsk region, which Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, has long coveted.

A frontline visit to bring attention to Russian drone attacks on civilians sheds an inadvertent light on the Ukrainian Army’s troop shortages.

A video of a man touching Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, shocked many Mexicans but did not surprise them. “It’s so common,” one woman said.

Villagers in Hellesdon, England, are pushing to change the name, but local bureaucracy makes it difficult.

“This is a type of science that has an impact that most people could see in their homes,” said Erin Hecht, a canine researcher at Harvard. “Now there’s just no money.”

Restrictions on publishers and sellers have grown more severe. Volumes are being pulled from shelves or redacted like secret documents, but bookstores remain important sources of community.

World leaders, gathering in Brazil, will try to agree on new, more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases.

Diplomats and leaders from around the world are gathering on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for annual talks on how to limit global warming.

Several contestants walked out of a Miss Universe event this week when the pageant director berated Miss Mexico for not taking part in promotional activities.

Climate change enabled the storm to churn faster and grow more quickly, a rapid analysis found.

Many of the victims drowned, the authorities said. Hundreds of thousands of people had evacuated before Typhoon Kalmaegi hit on Tuesday.

China’s new national drive to embrace artificial intelligence is also giving the authorities new ways to monitor and control its citizens.

Israeli officials told Itay Chen’s family last year that he was probably killed on Oct. 7, 2023, but relatives put off mourning until his body had come home.

Her haunting work focused on the lingering traces of conflict in places like Bosnia and Sierra Leone, after the firing had stopped.

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, release from the grip of a group backed by Iran.

In a country where political purges are frequent, Mr. Kim was a notable exception and served three generations of its dynastic rulers.

Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, has built a close relationship with President Trump, who has groused about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Venezuela has an arsenal of Russian weapons and armed civilian cells that could mount a guerrilla war. But a coup against President Nicolás Maduro? Don’t count on it.