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New rules curtailing protests have alarmed some who fear an erosion of civil rights. They come as environmental protesters have intensified their tactics to draw attention to climate change.

Kyiv says it will begin a “voluntary evacuation” of the recently recaptured city of Kherson, much of which is without water, power or heat.

Men convicted of fatally stabbing the Bangladeshi-American author Avijit Roy and his publisher fled custody in an unsettling reminder of extremist violence against intellectuals.

On Friday, an international vote was taken to ditch the leap second, a technical fudge that has caused headaches since its inception 50 years ago.

The country has been hit by a series of political shocks in recent years and now confronts the first hung Parliament in its history.

Andriy Kostin, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, said that the true numbers were likely to be far higher.

The secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, said at a security forum in Canada that North America doesn’t “have the option of sitting this one out.”

Concerns about corruption and human rights loom over a typically joyous sporting event.

Nations reached a landmark deal to compensate developing nations for climate harm. But some leaders said the summit didn’t go far enough in addressing the root causes of global warming.

The country has been hit by a series of political shocks in recent years and now confronts the first hung Parliament in its history.