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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gaffe or not, President Biden’s latest remark on Taiwan is consistent with his administration’s new policy.

President Zelensky told the Davos gathering that sanctions on Russia should be pushed to the maximum, as Germany’s energy minister indicated that a deadlock over an oil embargo could be nearing a solution.

A plan that allows Britons to sponsor people fleeing the Russian invasion has been plagued by visa delays and safeguarding concerns.

The coordinated bomber flights were the first such activity the two nations had done together since President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia ordered the invasion of Ukraine.

Many believe that they’re the most unlucky generation since 1980s as Beijing’s persistent pursuit of the zero Covid policy wreaks havoc.

The puzzling coronavirus cases highlight ongoing surveillance challenges and blind spots.

Andrey Kurkov has spent his life writing about realities so absurd they defy satire. It was perfect preparation for this moment.

President Biden in Asia.

Offhand remarks that vary from the official talking points have become a feature of the Biden presidency, even as they leave his staff scrambling to spin them away afterward.

A midlevel Russian diplomat broke ranks and resigned with a scathing statement on the war, and President Volodymyr Zelensky called on world leaders to turn up the pressure.

The women’s allegations against France’s new minister for solidarity and disabled people come amid a growing reckoning over sexist and sexually violent behavior by political figures.

Traumatized by war and sexual assaults, some U.S. veterans and veterans’ spouses are seeking help in a Mexican clinic that treats depression and addiction with potent hallucinogens like toad poison.

Plus a Russian diplomat resigns in protest and a Times inquiry into Trump-era ethics practices.

The attack took place last week in the Chernihiv region north of the capital, Kyiv.

A 15-year-old boy had reported the assault in 2008 but decided not to pursue the case until he saw that Imran Ahmad Khan had been elected to Parliament in 2019, prosecutors said.

Boris Bondarev, a Russian official who resigned over the war in Ukraine, said his colleagues were focused more on pleasing their superiors than on delivering accurate information to Moscow.

Warming since preindustrial times has made the extreme heat in South Asia, now in its third month, at least 30 times more likely.

The most lethal weapons the West has provided so far to Ukraine are now deployed in combat. And they have buoyed the Ukraine army’s hopes for victory.

Some Haitians say the world needs to understand the history that brought them to their present-day straits.

Sixteen months into the Biden presidency, U.S. officials are still divided over what to do about a trade legacy left by President Donald J. Trump.

Haitian Creole is a national language, but Creole speakers can encounter prejudice, so some were thrilled to see “The Ransom” offered in Creole.

The Russia House, where oligarchs sipped vodka and talked with politicians and corporate chiefs during the World Economic Forum, has been rebranded “Russian War Crimes House.”

The C.I.C. bank siphoned millions in fees and interest from the island’s treasury in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an investigation found.

The Ukrainian leader pledged to root out corruption to make his country more attractive to investors, and urged for tougher penalties against Moscow.

Boris Bondarev, a counselor at the Russian mission in Geneva, quit in a rare example of an official breaking with the Kremlin over its war in Ukraine.

The C.I.C. bank siphoned millions in fees and interest from the island’s treasury in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an investigation found.

The Ukrainian leader pledged to root out corruption to make his country more attractive to investors, and urged for tougher penalties against Moscow.

Élisabeth Borne’s father, a World War II resistance member and a Holocaust survivor, killed himself when she was 11, an experience she has rarely discussed in detail.

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The government said it had reversed the trajectory of its outbreak, although a true picture of its severity remained elusive.

With cases rising again, the superintendent said that as the pandemic evolves, “so too will our response to it.”

President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the start of the World Economic Forum, as the annual gathering focuses on the effects of Russia’s invasion on the global economy and politics.

The New York Times’s publication of “The Ransom,” a groundbreaking report laying out history’s role in Haiti’s poverty, stirred immediate reaction.

For a new five-part investigation, a team of Times journalists tabulated the amount that Haitians had to pay France for their freedom and explored how the massive sum still affects Haiti today.

The verdict represents a milestone in Ukraine’s attempts to hold Russia and its soldiers accountable for atrocities committed in the war.

A new trade deal is based on two big ideas: moving away from neoliberalism and containing China.

Moving away from a policy of “strategic ambiguity,” the president said he would take a step to protect the island democracy that he has been unwilling to make when it comes to Ukraine.

Nations are accelerating efforts to control data produced within their perimeters, disrupting the flow of what has become a kind of digital currency.

A Russian-owned refinery, linked to a Soviet-era pipeline, is a reminder of Germany’s past and a stumbling block to efforts to cut off Russian oil.