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While the viability of the plan was not immediately clear, officials said it was a reminder that the Kremlin remained determined to bring down President Volodymyr Zelensky. Ukraine’s security service [...]

After bombs again rained on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, President Volodymyr Zelensky asked Western partners to permit the use of their weapons against air bases inside Russia. As bombs dropped [...]

A blunt statement, accompanied by a slickly produced video of Ukrainian troops preparing for battle, appeared designed to rally the nation and to spread anxiety among Russian forces. Ukraine's top [...]

After seizing the city in eastern Ukraine after a long, brutal fight, the Wagner mercenary force is turning it over to the depleted Russian Army to defend. Days after declaring [...]

KYIV, Ukraine -- China's leader, Xi Jinping, will discuss his peace proposal for Ukraine with President Vladimir V. Putin, according to the Kremlin, but Ukrainian officials made clear on Monday [...]

China's top leader, Xi Jinping, is expected to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia next week and speak with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. China's top leader, Xi [...]

A state visit next week by Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus comes as the U.S. has accused China of preparing to send lethal aid to Russia. As officials in Ukraine [...]

President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus has been surrounded by speculation that his country could be pressed into providing more support for Russia. President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus appeared to [...]

Capitalizing on reports of low Russian morale, Ukraine has begun offering enemy troops detailed instructions on how to make their way over the battlefield and lay down their arms. KYIV, [...]

A Ukrainian official urged civilians to leave the eastern bank of the Dnipro River, across from the city of Kherson, warning of the ''possible intensification of hostilities'' there. KYIV, Ukraine [...]

Byline: Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Marc Santora and Maria Varenikova Russian forces are fortifying positions in southern Ukraine after retreating from Kherson, and the Kremlin denied planning to withdraw from the [...]

KYIV, Ukraine — Following a string of Ukrainian military successes in the south, the Kremlin sought on Monday to tamp down speculation that Russian forces would withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia [...]

''Every hour is getting harder.'' Russia's assault on Ukraine's essential services has caused blackouts in hospitals and cut off power and water in cities. KYIV, Ukraine -- In the crowded [...]

The city is also establishing 1,000 heating centers for its 3 million residents, as Russia pounds away at civilian targets. KYIV, Ukraine -- As they struggle to maintain an electricity [...]

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, has already been hit by shelling, and the United Nations chief, warning of disaster, called for a demilitarized zone around it. KYIV, [...]

As Russian forces step up attacks on critical infrastructure in eastern Ukraine and wage a cataclysmic campaign to gain total control over the southern port city of Mariupol, President Volodymyr [...]

President Biden spoke amid fears that Russia was setting the stage for an invasion that could ignite the biggest conflict in Europe in decades. WASHINGTON -- President Biden said on [...]

It is too early to tell, but the results certainly illustrate a fragmentation in politics and the growing influence of personalities. Sunday's election in Germany ended in victory for the [...]

The international community pledged more than $1 billion in emergency aid as millions of Afghans risk running out of food just as winter sets in. Millions of Afghans could run [...]

An ambitious plan to inoculate more than 450 million people comes at a precarious moment for the continent, with many countries struggling with their worst outbreaks since the start of [...]

The country's nationalist governing party has found itself in a spirited fight, as new circumstances harden old divisions. WARSAW -- Poland's governing party swept to power five years ago by [...]

Europe's first presidential election since the outbreak of coronavirus will not take place in Poland on Sunday, despite a chaotic push by the governing party to press ahead with an [...]

Jeremy Hunt, the British foreign minister, arrived in Washington last week for a whirlwind of meetings dominated by a critical question: Should Britain risk its relationship with Beijing and agree [...]

MALI STON, Croatia -- ''An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life,'' M.F.K. Fisher observed in her classic book about them, ''full of stress, passion and danger.''The oyster, in other [...]

KOMARNA, Croatia -- As a quirk of history and the Balkan wars, a corner of Croatia is cut off from the rest of the country by a 12-mile interruption of [...]

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- As Macedonians prepare for the most important vote in their nation's history, scores of Facebook posts are urging voters to burn their ballots. Hundreds of new websites [...]

WARSAW -- Under intense political pressure and the threat of legal sanctions, George Soros's Open Society Foundations said on Tuesday that it had become impossible to work in Hungary, whose [...]

When Andy Byford takes over the helm of New York City's subway and bus system early next year, he will start the job with a professed desire to avoid political [...]

The chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Joseph J. Lhota, made a scathing attack on Friday on what he portrayed as Mayor Bill de Blasio's hands-off attitude toward the crisis [...]

Your phone, in all likelihood, knows more about you than your doctor. Your credit card company knows your likes and dislikes better than your closest friend. Google knows your thoughts, [...]

For nearly six decades, New York City police officers have trekked to a bog in a far-flung corner of the Bronx for essential weapons training and lifelike practice in situations [...]

New York State is extending the period for workers and volunteers to seek medical benefits and lost wages resulting from their involvement in the rescue and recovery operations in Lower [...]

In an effort to detect any local transmission of the Zika virus, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said on Tuesday that it had expanded the [...]

The official seal of the Village of Whitesboro in central New York, depicting a wrestling match between the community's founding father and the local American Indian chief, has survived decades [...]

The Peking has faced gale-force winds and hurricanes. It has seen war and rough seas and rogue waves. Through it all, from its construction in 1911, it survived, and in [...]

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo rejected a proposal on Thursday to build the first port for liquefied natural gas in New York State, saying it would pose a threat to the [...]

After years of debate, disagreement and inaction, New York City officials and developers plan to announce on Wednesday a proposal to save Pier 40, the former cargo terminal in Manhattan [...]

A New York State board on Wednesday recommended approving the opening of a casino resort in the Southern Tier, a rural and economically impoverished area where similar bids were previously [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya -- After weeks of unrest that left dozens of protesters dead and drove tens of thousands of people to flee the country, the government of Burundi has postponed [...]

One day after a grand jury declined to indict a New York police officer in the death of Eric Garner, prompting angry protests and calls for reform from elected officials, [...]

First the snows buried the Buffalo area, a result of a sudden rush of cold air that plunged much of the nation into a deep freeze. Then came the warmth, [...]

As Ebola continues to ravage West Africa and fears grow that the virus will spread around the globe, enhanced screenings began on Saturday at Kennedy Airport in New York. Travelers [...]

After failing to gain enough support to provide additional subsidies to complete the stalled construction of a $2.3 billion, 80-story tower at the site of the former World Trade Center [...]

The Genting Group, among the biggest gambling interests in the world, announced on Wednesday that it was vying for one of the four licenses that will be available to open [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDAcross the metropolis, weary residents mutter about a tale of two cities, wondering who will bring back the jobs. Just then ... It's a tax break. It's a Hollywood […]

Graffiti is often denounced as vandalism, but the deliriously festooned, sprawling warehouses at the western edge of Queens rose far above that. Blanketed with giddy images, drawing street artists from [...]

It is hard to know what would come as the bigger surprise to the rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as the Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie Smalls, or Big Poppa. Surely, [...]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg outlined a far-reaching plan on Tuesday to protect New York City from the threat of rising sea levels and powerful storm surges by building an extensive [...]

Emergency medical workers were delayed in responding to a car crash in Manhattan that left a 4-year-old girl dead because a 911 dispatcher failed to see an incoming report on [...]