Europe

The drone flying over Korenevo village, in the Kursk region of Russia that Ukraine invaded in August, recorded a grisly scene: at least seven bodies lying on the road, most of them in civilian clothes. Destroyed cars were scattered on the roadside, some with corpses in them. One man lay …

A piercing alarm burst from millions of cellphones, a signal to hundreds of thousands of people to pack their bags and flee one of Europe’s most dangerous volcanoes. But most of the Italians who heard it shrugged. It was around 5 o’clock on a Friday afternoon, and the alert wasn’t …

A monthlong meeting of Catholic bishops and lay people at the Vatican ended on Saturday with a call for women to be given more leadership roles in the church. But on the question of whether women could be ordained as deacons, the church said the possibility “remains open” and required …

Thousands of supporters of the far-right British agitator known as Tommy Robinson marched through the streets of London on Saturday — many of them carrying flags or placards — before holding a rally in the city center. Mr. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is the highest-profile leader of …

The governing party in Georgia, which has increasingly steered the nation toward Russia and China, claimed victory Saturday in a parliamentary election that both the government and the opposition described as decisive for the country’s future. Georgia’s splintered opposition did not admit defeat, setting the stage for a likely political …

A 26-year-old man from Northern Ireland, who pretended to be a teenage girl on the internet to target thousands of girls in a wide-reaching online pedophilia case and who was convicted of manslaughter in the death of a 12-year-old girl in the United States, was sentenced in Britain on Friday …

The comedian Stewart Lee used to include, as part of his routine, a recollection of a conversation he once shared with a taxi driver. The story, in his telling, went like this. The taxi driver was an unrepentant homophobe. To be gay, he believed, was immoral. Lee tried to point …

One is an Anglican clergyman who presents himself as the “anti-woke candidate.” Another is a left-wing activist who boasts that he has never “invaded any Middle Eastern countries.” Still another is a Zumba teacher who says her cardio training would help her face the rigors of the job. These are …

Feted by many fellow journalists and Western diplomats as a fearless scourge of corrupt oligarchs, Moldova’s most popular television host torched her soaring career and stellar image three years ago with a startling life choice. She fell in love and had a child with one of her country’s most notorious …

For months, Serhii Hnezdilov, a Ukrainian soldier, pushed for troops exhausted by years of war with Russia to be replaced with fresh conscripts. He expressed his concerns in interviews, on social networks and in a podcast, drawing on his five years of fighting in an infantry brigade. But Mr. Hnezdilov, …