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LAKSHMIPUR, India — The women adjusted their binoculars around their necks, secured their bright green saris and climbed onto a motorboat to begin their weekly patrol in the Sundarbans, one of the largest deltas in the world and an urgent case study on the effects of climate change. As sea…

Historical parallels often spring to mind when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the brutality and megalomania of Vladimir Putin, many are reminded of Adolf Hitler. In the soaring rhetoric and heroic defiance of Volodymyr Zelensky, others hear echoes of Winston Churchill. In the moral outrage but relatively…

The farmer was working in his field on a recent morning when a neighbor called to tell him that his warehouses had been shelled. He rushed back and found them on fire and one of his workers lying on the ground with shrapnel lodged in his head. “In one word,…

Six months after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince, a close ally during the Trump administration, despite objections from the fund’s advisers about the merits of the deal. A panel that screens investments for the main…

WASHINGTON — It is hard to draw any conclusions after four games. That is merely 2.5 percent of the 162-game regular season, so please read the next sentence with that in mind. The Mets are one of the best teams in Major League Baseball. On Sunday afternoon, they had a…

PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron will face Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, in the runoff of France’s presidential elections. With 92 percent of the ballots cast on Sunday counted, Mr. Macron, a centrist, was leading with about 27.4 percent of the vote to Ms. Le Pen’s 24.3 percent….

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Scottie Scheffler, a rising star on the PGA Tour, now has a green jacket to go with his No. 1 ranking. Scheffler, 25, won the Masters Tournament on Sunday by three strokes, claiming his first major championship with a steady, poised final round that took advantage of…

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In the last hours before the midnight deadline for a no-confidence motion in Pakistan’s Parliament, the capital was on the brink. Prime Minister Imran Khan’s allies in Parliament had spent the day Saturday working for any delay they could, filibustering with angry speeches denouncing the opposition as…

After the deadly strike on the train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, those who stayed behind are grim about the future: “We think we will be swept off the face of the earth.” April 10, 2022 KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Two days after more than 50 people were killed on its platforms…

SYDNEY, Australia — The tangy smell of eucalyptus leaves lining the streets. A casual friendliness even from strangers. Ten types of Asian cuisine in a 100-yard radius of the city center. These were among an infinite list of things I yearned for in my hometown as I waited, stuck abroad…