China’s Xi Jinping secured a precedent-breaking third leadership term on Sunday and introduced a top governing body stacked with loyalists, cementing his place as the country’s most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong. Shanghai Communist Party chief Li Qiang followed Xi onto the stage at

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia says it has withdrawn its troops from the city of Lyman as Ukraine’s eastern counteroffensive gains more ground.

All six crew members on board a Russian transport plane died when it crashed earlier outside the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, local officials said on Thursday. The wreckage was discovered by a search team after it disappeared from radars on Wednesday