NYT

A runoff election on Sunday pits a centrist against a nationalist who represent mainstream parties. The outcome is unclear given that many under 30 prefer candidates on the political fringes.

Trump administration officials are getting a second chance to try to sever ties with China by starting a trade war, imposing export controls and revoking student visas.

President Trump’s threat to impose big charges — including 50 percent on the European Union — was in question after judges blocked his across-the-board levies.

The American president’s preference for praising and excusing the Russian leader has yielded no progress toward peace in Ukraine.

The city is suing oil companies over global warming. Trump says lawsuits like these threaten national security. The judge wants to hear what both sides think.

President Trump said that Beijing was not honoring the terms of a temporary agreement and warned of further confrontation.

The 24 awards would have gone to a range of companies trying in novel ways to reduce the pollution that is heating the planet.

A series of exchanges marked a new low point in the relationship between France and Israel, which accused the French president of “a crusade against the Jewish state.”

States across the border issued air advisories about particulate pollution that are expected to last for several days.

As more Gazans fled their homes in the north, international demands grew louder for Israel to allow an urgent and massive injection of aid to stave off famine in the territory.

Both Kyiv and Moscow have been maneuvering to set the terms and tempo of any talks to end the fighting.

Paul Doyle is accused of deliberately driving his vehicle into crowds in Liverpool, northwestern England, injuring 79 people, including four children.

The extremist group claimed responsibility for two attacks, its first against the new government since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, a war monitoring group said.

Glacial ice will melt for centuries even if global temperatures stop rising now, according to new research.

The Dutch food authority said cannabis had been detected in samples of the candy, and the police said it had made several people ill.

In 113-degree heat, thousands of Hindus in Pakistan make a grueling trek that is an act of spiritual devotion and cultural preservation in a Muslim-majority country.

Aid began to trickle into the territory this week. But there is never enough.

Thousands of white South Africans are jockeying to get on the next flight to the United States as refugees. They say the backlash against their community is unfair.

Margaryta Karpova, 12, escaped her village in eastern Ukraine just before Russian troops overran it. But her fight was only beginning.

Beijing has intervened significantly in Myanmar’s civil war to protect its substantial investments in the country, handing a setback to resistance forces.