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The United States has an aggressive new commitment for fighting climate change: cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent relative to 2005 levels in less than aContinue reading5 things to know about the new US climate commitment

The greatest challenger to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule is a man whose name the dictator won’t say and whom he has tried to kill: Alexei Navalny. Having defiantly returnedContinue readingAlexei Navalny, the Russian dissident challenging Putin, explained

This story is one in our six-part series The Pandemic Playbook. Explore all the stories here. Every January or February, Le The Linh and his wife pack their children intoContinue readingVietnam defied the experts and sealed its border to keep Covid-19 out. It worked.

Since leaving government at the end of the Obama administration, former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes has spent the last four years calling for Democrats to put climate changeContinue readingBen Rhodes is worried about Joe Biden’s climate change and China policies

President Joe Biden became the first US president to formally refer to atrocities committed against Armenians as a “genocide” on Saturday, 106 years after the 1915 start of an eight-year-longContinue readingWhy Biden’s statement recognizing the Armenian genocide is a big deal

The bodies of the two brothers were left for more than a day. Their families knew they were there, but the soldiers wouldn’t let them collect the bodies. The soldiersContinue reading“Dying by blood or by hunger”: The war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, explained

By now, you’ve probably seen the videos: dark skies, illuminated by exploding balls of light, like alien spaceships doing battle or a terrifying fireworks display, scored by air raid sirens.Continue readingIsrael’s Iron Dome, explained by an expert

The contrast is growing more galling by the day. In the US, more than half of adults have received at least one vaccine dose, Covid-19 transmission is the lowest it’sContinue readingThe US should give away its vaccine doses. Now.

During last week’s European championship soccer match between Germany and Hungary, the rainbow was everywhere on the German side. The German goalie wore a rainbow armband; the team’s fans donnedContinue readingHow hatred of gay people became a key plank in Hungary’s authoritarian turn

Tunisia’s president has pushed the country’s fledgling democracy into crisis. Click Here: Over the weekend, President Kais Saied fired the country’s prime minister and suspended Parliament in what his politicalContinue readingThe political crisis in Tunisia, explained by an expert