ImageMigrants walking from the Polish border to a warehouse shelter on Thursday in Belarus.Credit…James Hill for The New York Times The hastily constructed migrant encampments at the main border crossing into Poland from Belarus were cleared by the Belarusian government on Thursday morning, removing, for the moment, a major flashpoint that has raised tensions across […]

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said on Wednesday that the military needed to do more to prevent civilian casualties, his first public comments about a U.S. airstrike in Syria in 2019 that killed dozens of women and children. Mr. Austin had requested a briefing on the strike after a New York Times investigation […]

ImageMigrants lining up for tea from the Belarusian Red Cross and Emergency Ministries at a logistics center close to the Belarus-Polish border at Bruzgi on Wednesday.Credit…James Hill for The New York Times BRUZGI, Belarus — The Belarusian authorities moved Wednesday to ease pressure along the country’s frontier with Poland, the morning after the main border […]

As the torrential rains and floods that battered British Columbia began to clear on Tuesday, the authorities said that the body of a woman had been recovered from a mudslide and that it would take weeks for the province to recover from a storm that left hundreds of people stranded on highways. The woman’s body […]

WARSAW — The Polish authorities said that border guards used water cannons and tear gas on Tuesday to repel what they said was an attempt by migrants moving en masse from Belarus to breach the heavily guarded frontier. Tensions have been building along the European Union’s eastern front for weeks as thousands of migrants, mainly […]

ImageXi Jinping, China’s leader, and Vice President Biden at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland in 2015. Mr. Biden has spoken with Mr. Xi twice since becoming president.Credit…Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press 阅读简体中文版 • 閱讀繁體中文版 President Biden and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, began a virtual summit as the United States seeks to engage in what the administration calls […]

NEW DELHI — Two journalists in India were arrested after they went to cover religiously motivated violence in a northeastern state, the latest in a series of efforts to punish the media for news that casts the ruling Hindu nationalist party in a critical light. The journalists, colleagues at a digital news network, were on […]

Japan’s economy continued to wobble in the third quarter of 2021, tipping back into contraction, as the country struggled to find its economic footing in the face of coronavirus restrictions and a supply chain crunch that hit its biggest manufacturers. In the July-to-September period, the country’s economy, the third largest after the United States and […]

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has sprained her back, Buckingham Palace said on Sunday, forcing her to miss a remembrance service that she had planned to attend after canceling multiple trips and other engagements because of poor health. The palace said that the queen’s injury, which it announced less than two hours before she was […]

When the Food and Drug Administration authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in children ages 5 to 11 last month, the agency noted that the pediatric version would be a bit different than the one for adults: a third the size, with a different buffer for added stability. The news set off a […]