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Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, April 15, 2022. FRONT PAGE An article on Tuesday about how the shift to remote work has affected New York City misstated the [...]

The star soprano Anna Netrebko lost work in the West over her ties to the Russian president. Now, following an about-face, she has been called a traitor at home. The [...]

As British lawmakers take aim at wealthy Russians, Roman Abramovich confirmed he was seeking to sell the Premier League team he has owned since 2003. LONDON -- Roman Abramovich, the [...]

Yannick Nézet-Séguin picked up the baton at Carnegie Hall, after a conductor with ties to Vladimir Putin was dropped amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A week ago, the Vienna Philharmonic's [...]

The star maestro, scheduled to lead three high-profile Vienna Philharmonic concerts this week, will not appear after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Carnegie Hall and the Vienna Philharmonic announced on Thursday [...]

A deadly virus can't be ignored, jailed, exiled or co-opted -- nor can it be locked down without great economic cost. That puts President Vladimir Putin of Russia in a [...]

A wide range of parties in the Czech Republic banded together despite their differences to oppose Andrej Babis, the country's populist prime minister. Opposition parties in Hungary are hoping to [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela announced Friday that it was devaluing its currency, a step that had long been deemed necessary but could push the spiking inflation even higher. The devaluation, [...]

The Rio de Janeiro State government said Friday that it would apologize to President Dilma Rousseff for the human rights abuses she suffered during the dictatorship that ruled Brazil from [...]

LIMA, Peru -- Among the answers to a crossword puzzle that ran in a Venezuelan newspaper on Wednesday were A-D-A-N, the first name of President Hugo Chavez's brother; R-A-F-A-G-A-S, which [...]

TAIZ, Yemen -- Armed tribesmen had finally retreated from a pocket of this city, handing back to the state an education building they had occupied in recent weeks. The governor, [...]

The Senate approved a $109 billion measure on Thursday to pay for the war in Iraq and Gulf Coast hurricane recovery, ignoring a veto threat by President Bush and an [...]

President Idriss Deby was widely expected to win the presidential election, which most opposition parties boycotted to protest his decision to change the Constitution to allow himself to run again. [...]

President Nursultan Nazarbayev, struggling to stem a deepening political crisis, accepted the resignation of his chief national security officer on Wednesday, one day after five members of an elite national […]

President Bush on Wednesday for the first time linked the American response to terrorism and its response to Hurricane Katrina, declaring that the United States is emerging a stronger nation […]

W. has jumped the couch. Not fallen off the couch, as he did when he choked on that pretzel. Jumped it. According to UrbanDictionary.com, 'jump the couch' has now become […]

IN one of those jokes that history likes to play from time to time, I recently ran across myself in a Russian history textbook for ninth graders. A sign of […]

Heinz Fischer, a 65-year-old Social Democrat, was sworn in as Austria's president two days after his predecessor, Thomas Klestil, 71, died of multiple organ failure. Victor Homola […]

Charges of irregularities did not stop voters from turning out en masse for Malawi's third democratic elections, in which a newly chosen Parliament will select a successor to the retiring […]

A bomb exploded in a stadium in Chechnya's capital on Sunday, killing the republic's president and delivering a severe blow to President Vladimir V. Putin's efforts to end the long, […]

The White House calls President Bush's 25-day idyll at his Texas ranch a 'working vacation,' a phrase a lot of people dismiss as Republican spin about a chief executive who […]

President Bush began his day yesterday at dawn on the golf course. He began Saturday on the golf course, too. A weekend earlier, the president played two rounds of 18 […]

Now that George W. Bush has settled in for the month at his Texas ranch, Americans can look forward to the resumption of that vacation tradition in which the president […]

President Laurent D. Kabila, who was assassinated by a bodyguard in the capital's presidential palace, was buried in a state funeral that raised grave doubts about who will control the […]

Hafez al-Assad has been a fixture of Syrian politics and diplomacy for so long that it is hard to imagine the Middle East without him. In 30 years of rule, […]

Only two hours after Taiwan's new president made his inaugural address, authorities in Beijing released a surprisingly temperate response, charging him with a lack of sincerity but not repeating the […]