The leaders of China, Russia, India, Iran and other nations in the BRICS club gather in New Delhi this weekend, but wars and soaring energy prices divide them.

China sees the BRICS group as a vehicle for challenging American power. India wants to keep the group broad enough to avoid choosing sides.

Britain warned that Russia uses disinformation to divide Ukraine from its international partners.

An unexpected request from President Volodymyr Zelensky offered a stark reminder that the cost of the war will rise, challenging Europe.

They made a risky bid to reunite after three years of separation, illness and deprivation — the kind of ordeal suffered by many thousands of families torn apart by the war in eastern Ukraine.

The spotlight on the country’s only antiwar party has brought a spark to what had looked like another dull, tightly controlled election campaign.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan has been a public critic of Mr. Putin, who has denounced her country’s sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine war.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia visited the Kuril Islands on Thursday for the first time since they were seized from Japan at the end of World War II.

The deadly strikes are part of a long-running maritime battle with Ukraine and echo battles over other key shipping routes around the world.