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The conversations about a post-Putin era have begun. Will it be a peaceful exit — or the “Game of Thrones” variety?

As people embark on their Lunar New Year’s journeys, along with the traditional red envelopes of cash, cases of fruit, and bottles of baijiu, they are bringing an unwelcome guest: covid.

Lunar New Year 2023 means celebrations, long journeys to see family — and in some places, high anxiety.

Prime Minister Ardern — who at her polling peak in 2020 was New Zealand’s most popular prime minister in a century — stunned the country and her own center-left Labour Party by announcing that she would resign with more than nine months left in her second term in office and with no obvious successor.

After a two-decade-long hold on power, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces the real possibility that he may lose Turkey's presidential election.

Week 45: Vladimir Putin once oversaw a steady drop in the size of the Russian military. His war in Ukraine has turned that trend upside down.

What defines a famine? The answers are complicated — and sometimes hugely consequential.

Matteo Messina Denaro had eluded law enforcement for more than three decades.

New U.N. data shows that China’s population has begun to shrink — and is likely to decline significantly in the years to come. It’s just the beginning of a long-term demographic shift.

Executions, mass arrests and the shooting of protesters show a heavy-handed crackdown is underway after four months of protests.