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Despite the government’s ratcheting up of virus controls, the mood in China’s capital remains upbeat.

The Sunday Read: ‘It Was Just a Kayaking Trip. Until It Upended Our Lives.’  The New York Times

By Jeff Mason (Reuters) -U.S. first lady Jill Biden made an unannounced trip to Ukraine on Sunday to show support for its people amid Russia’s invasion, visiting a school that is serving as a temporary shelter and meeting Ukraine’s first

Lee was the only candidate and won with over 99% of the vote in which nearly all 1,500 committee members were carefully vetted by the central government in Beijing.

UZHHOROD, Ukraine — Jill Biden made an unannounced visit to western Ukraine on Sunday, holding a surprise Mother’s Day meeting with first lady Olena Zelenska to show U.S. support for the embattled nation as Russia presses its punishing war in

Under President Vladimir V. Putin, Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, has come to celebrate modern Russian military might. The war in Ukraine is shifting its meaning further.

The 2,400 podcast submissions for NPR’s contest offer a rare glimpse into the minds of young people. (Image credit: LA Johnson/NPR)

A Russian airstrike is believed to have killed some 60 villagers who had taken refuge in a school in Ukraine’s Luhansk region, authorities there said.

A Russian bomb destroyed a school sheltering about 90 people in eastern Ukraine. The governor of Luhansk province said Sunday that 30 people were rescued from the rubble of the school in the village of Bilohorivka but the rest probably

Two Palestinians suspected of killing three Israelis in a bloody axe attack on Israel’s independence day were captured Sunday after an intensive manhunt, according to Israeli authorities.