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There’s no better way to zip through a new city than on two wheels. Here are some routes to try, from riverside jaunts to mountain climbs.

In the shadow of the iconic Denali peak in Alaska, a family bikes over the next rise and into the great unknown.

The bodies of the mayor, her husband and her son were found after Russian forces retreated in early April.

A New York Times reporting team visited the eastern Ukrainian town of Sievierodonetsk and found devastation in a town nearly surrounded by enemy forces.

Data from the federal government showed last year’s increase was the first since 2014 and followed a sharp drop in 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic hit.

The United States has stockpiled millions of doses of two smallpox vaccines, also effective against monkeypox. But the outbreaks so far are clustered in other countries.

The requirement to test for Covid before flying to the United States is hated by many travelers and the U.S. travel industry. But the government shows no sign of getting rid of it.

Organizers of a camp for Ukrainian refugees who had traveled to Mexico say they will soon close it and discouraged Ukrainians still in Europe from traveling to Mexico as they try to enter the United States

Ukrainian authorities say workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement.

The Biden administration’s escalation of sanctions could lead to Russia’s first default on foreign debt in a century.

The sleek new tube line officially opened Tuesday, drawing train enthusiasts and awing normally stoic London commuters.

President Biden regularly makes unscripted, pithy remarks that violate the rules of diplomacy and get a lot of attention. His staff always walks them back — but should they?

Mexican experts say the number of monarch butterflies that arrived this year to winter in mountaintop forests rose by 35% compared to the previous season

After a reprieve of months, confirmed cases of COVID-19 are surging in the southern tip of South America

The U.N. Security Council is calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to “swiftly reverse” their policies and practices restricting the human rights of women and girls

In 1944, a U.S. military plane crashed in a spot the locals named “Deadman’s Torso Flat.” A team has found remains that it hopes are those of the airman.

The development comes as the United States recently began averaging more than 100,000 new confirmed cases per day again, according to a New York Times database, for the first time since February.

A Danish Jehovah’s Witness has been released after spending five years in a Russian prison under Moscow’s crackdown on the religious group, the organization says

China’s crackdown on the Muslim ethnic minority in Xinjiang, explained.

Russia and China flew strategic bombers over the Sea of Japan and East China Sea while President Biden was in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Only one case of the virus has so far been identified in the U.S., but public health officials say the disease is likely to spread.

“We are in a deep grief today,” Khpolwak Sapai, deputy director of Afghanistan’s ToloNews, said in a Facebook post Sunday, the day after the Taliban’s edict went into effect.

The E.U. gives Putin a public relations victory while continuing to fund his war effort in Ukraine.

Pope Francis is offering his condolences and solidarity to the people of Gaylord, Michigan following a deadly tornado

Hungary has declared a legal “state of danger” in response to the war in neighboring Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced Tuesday.

Mexico’s immigration enforcement is increasingly militarized with the armed forces and National Guard now accounting for more migrant detentions than immigration agents

The head of Serbia’s Orthodox Church says he will recognize the full independence of the church in neighboring North Macedonia, signaling an end to a decades-old religious dispute

Health authorities in the United Arab Emirates say they have detected the country’s first case of the monkeypox virus in a young woman who traveled from West Africa

Doctors and infectious-disease experts across the continent have worked to contain monkeypox outbreaks for years. Few seemed to care, or even notice, until people in the West started getting sick.

Dutch authorities have arrested a 34-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker accused of war crimes

Lebanon’s pound has hit a new low as deep divisions within the newly elected parliament raised concerns that political paralysis could further exacerbate one of the worst economic meltdowns in history

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Kissinger urged the West to not seek an embarrassing defeat for Russia in Ukraine, warning it could worsen Europe’s long-term stability.

The West is reluctant to risk a direct military confrontation with Russia, and the world’s food distribution network is already creaky because of pandemic-related supply disruptions.

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The U.N. rights representative’s trip came amid the release of the “Xinjiang Police Files,” detailing the internment of Uyghurs and other minorities in China.

Officials in north-central Mexico say 11 people have been gunned down in simultaneous shooting attacks on two bars

Health authorities in Europe, North America, Israel and Australia have identified more than 100 cases of monkeypox in recent days

Turkey’s foreign minister says that improved ties with Israel will not come at the expense of its commitment to supporting the Palestinians and the two-state solution to the conflict

Police in Rio de Janeiro have raided the Vila Cruzeiro favela in an operation that prompted a fierce firefight

Local authorities say that dozens of people have been killed in northeast Nigeria in yet another attack targeting remote communities as the West African nation continues to battle extremist rebels

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen accused Russia of “trying to trample the aspirations of an entire nation with tanks.”

Health authorities are urging careful assessment before expanding the use of smallpox vaccines to protect against monkeypox.

Having beaten back Russian troops, the border guards of Ukraine’s Chernihiv region are watching warily as their adversaries again amass troops and equipment.

Amnesty International’s report found that 579 people were put to death in 2021, a 20 percent increase, compared with the year before.

The church memorials were the last organized marking of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.

Pope Francis has named a bishop in his own image as the new head of the Italian bishops conference

The U.N. migration agency says it’s aiming to transfer at least 6,750 Ethiopian migrants from war-torn Yemen to their home country in the coming months

Ahead of a summit with Australia, India and Japan, an off-the-cuff vow to defend the island militarily against China complicates diplomacy, particularly for Australia.

The Biden administration appears to be returning to the Obama-era “strategic patience” of not engaging in North Korea.

South Africa’s neutral stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine will be a major topic of conversation as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets Tuesday with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, to end his three-nation tour of Africa