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It was just three months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, but Marwa Yehea wanted to return to her home in Kyiv. Yehea, 31, who is originally from Syria, had fled the Ukrainian...

Fears are growing that disagreements between rich and poor nations over how to manage a new fund to tackle the "loss and damage" caused by wilder weather and rising seas could throw the COP28 UN...

Eighteen-month-old Mykola clutched his mother’s finger as he toddled up the hallway of the national children’s hospital in Kyiv, his still-unsteady legs eager to keep up with his desire to walk. ...

A mural depicting Queen Elizabeth II in a yoga pose, with the message “Welcome to Bristol,” greets visitors to this vibrant city in southwestern England. But like so many other places in...

When Waheed Arian was 5, his father knelt by his side and handed him a big, colourful kite. That small moment, in Afghanistan, seared itself into the son’s memory. “I was a child born into...

The smell of oranges and roasting duck wafted from behind the metal door of a small barn as Oksana Kovtun put the final touches to her family’s Christmas dinner. As she hustled from the outbuilding...

In northwest London, home to one of Britain’s largest Hindu communities, celebrations for Diwali, a festive holiday, were well underway on Monday. Children tossed small fireworks that popped as they...

There are two flags flying over the youth hostel on Arranmore Island, a speck of land off Ireland’s northwestern coast, visible from the ferry as it pulls into its tiny port: the Irish tricolour and...

The writer is NYT's correspondent on the International Desk in London The road to the training site was lined with crumbling homes and damaged buildings, a reminder of how war had consumed the...

The heat in a Lviv maternity hospital was overwhelming last month as Khrystyna Mnykh rocked her newborn daughter, Roksolana, in her arms and described her birth story. An alarm had rung out days...

Dressed in black, the actors moved around a sparse rehearsal room preparing a new play — the story of a dissident Ukrainian who died in a Russian prison camp decades ago. As they took a break, they...

At a church in East London this month, Imogen Moore-Shelley balanced her 6-month-old on her hip as she scrawled an important message on a poster: “Useful information for sponsors.” She then...