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The election of the center-right politician fills a role that is responsible for foreign policy in an era of rising wariness of neighboring Russia.

A campaign to make the country an explicitly Hindu nation has had a chilling effect on left-leaning and secular institutions like Jawaharlal Nehru University.

The party of Imran Khan, the jailed former prime minister, took the most seats, humiliating the country’s military rulers and creating a political crisis.

The military had cracked down on the party of the former prime minister in favor of another former leader, Nawaz Sharif. But Mr. Sharif’s party was lagging as results trickled in.

The Italian prime minister helped persuade the Hungarian leader, Viktor Orban, to go along with a landmark fund for Ukraine. It was a big moment for Europe. And for her.

The shock of the new, in political life, often sends us back to the past in search of an intellectual compass.

Whatever the eventual outcome of the genocide case, it sets up an epic battle over the meaning and values of the so-called rules-based order.

Some well-meaning U.S. efforts to help Taiwan may end up provoking China when we should be trying to lower tensions.

Long lines have popped up in Russia and beyond to get Boris B. Nadezhdin, an antiwar candidate, onto the ballot for Russia’s presidential election in March.

Israel has been at war with Hamas for over 100 days and still has over 100 hostages to recover, but Netanyahu’s No. 1 focus is Netanyahu.

A wave of elections coincides with state influence operations, a surge of extremism, A.I. advances and a pullback in social media protections.

Over the past 15 years, the Upper Midwest has seen a remarkable state-by-state sorting of voters along partisan lines.