An independent panel of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration voted on Tuesday on to recommend to the agency that Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine be authorized for children and adolescents ages 6 to 17. The panel’s recommendation was a key step as federal regulators weigh authorizing the vaccine for those children, but it is not […]

NAIROBI, Kenya — A court in Zimbabwe on Tuesday convicted a freelance reporter for The New York Times on charges of breaching the country’s immigration laws, in another blow for the free press in the increasingly authoritarian country in southern Africa. The journalist, Jeffrey Moyo, has been accused of obtaining fake press credentials for two […]

When W. Larry Kenney, a professor of physiology at Pennsylvania State University, began studying how extreme heat harms humans, his research focused on workers inside the disaster-stricken Three Mile Island nuclear plant, where temperatures were as high as 165 degrees Fahrenheit. In the decades that followed, Dr. Kenney has looked at how heat stress affects […]

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine addressed European Union leaders in Brussels last month.Credit…Olivier Matthys/Associated Press BRUSSELS — Ukraine’s European allies are facing questions of both tactical and political importance as bloody battles in the country’s east grind on and tilt in Russia’s favor. On the tactical front, NATO allies, and especially those in Ukraine’s vicinity, […]

David Chou and Pastor Billy Chang spent their whole lives forging parallel paths. They were born in early 1950s Taiwan, grew up just miles apart during martial law and later rebuilt their lives in the United States. But over several decades, they carried with them vastly different memories — and views — of the island […]

PSZCZYNA, Poland — It was shortly before 11 p.m. when Izabela Sajbor realized the doctors were prepared to let her die. Her doctor had already told her that her fetus had severe abnormalities and would almost certainly die in the womb. If it made it to term, life expectancy was a year, at most. At […]

BRADFORD, England — As Haniyya Ejaz boards her crowded morning train in the northern city of Bradford, an automated announcement tinged with a cheery Yorkshire accent chimes, “Welcome aboard this northern service to Leeds.” But the 10-mile commute between the two cities is far from a welcome one for Ms. Ejaz, whose daily train journeys […]

Thousands of migrants set off from southern Mexico last week in one of the largest caravans seeking to reach the United States in recent years. The mass movement coincided with a recent meeting in Los Angeles, of leaders from the Western Hemisphere, where migration was a key focus. Though migrant caravans have become a common […]

After a series of puzzling financial decisions that put tens of millions of dollars at risk, the executive board of a little-heralded United Nations agency took the rare step on Friday of voting to swiftly enforce a series of reforms. The actions by the board of the Office for Project Services, or UNOPS, followed a […]

YAHIDNE, Ukraine — More than two months after the residents of Yahidne kicked down the bolted basement door where the Russian army had held them hostage, the village is being rebuilt but the memories remain fresh — and deeply painful. On March 3, eight days after the full-scale invasion began, Russian forces swept into Yahidne, […]