BEIJING — Trucks packed with seafood were backed up, bumper to bumper, at the Chinese border with North Korea. Protesters carried red banners demanding compensation. And Chinese businessmen who have b...
HAA, Bhutan — India’s main garrison in the Kingdom of Bhutan sits only 13 miles from a disputed border with China. There is a training academy, a military hospital, a golf course — all testament to In...
LONDON — A British government inquiry into the deadly inferno at a London high-rise for working-class tenants will examine the conduct of the local authorities, but not the broader issues involving lo...
JOHANNESBURG — Grace Mugabe, the wife of the president of Zimbabwe, appeared voluntarily at a police station in South Africa on Tuesday after she was accused of assaulting a young woman at an upscale...
INARAJAN, Guam — Against the back wall of the command center at Guam Homeland Security, a nondescript telephone is perched on a shelf. It’s the phone no one in the room wants to hear ringing: It alert...
HONG KONG — The police in Hong Kong said on Tuesday that a pro-democracy activist falsified his account last week of being abducted by men he said were mainland Chinese security officers who put stapl...
During his rise to power, President Trump proved he has a finely honed sense of what threats, intimidation and bluster can accomplish. In recent days, he has received reminders — including from South...
TEHRAN — Iran’s nuclear program could be restarted in a matter of “hours,” if the American government imposes further sanctions on Tehran, the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, said on Tuesday. Mr...
Among countries of the world, Australia and New Zealand are like siblings, with a shared colonial history and close trade, military and cultural ties. They even have a joint holiday to commemorate the...
The United Nations warned on Tuesday of a rapidly worsening armed conflict in the Central African Republic, where tens of thousands of people have fled their homes and aid groups say formerly peaceful...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. Photo Credit Al Drago for The New York Times 1. President Trump defended his weekend remarks over th...
Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: Photo Credit Ahn Young-Joon/Associated Press • President Moon Jae-in of South Korea issued a blunt rebuke to the United States, the latest sign th...
DAKAR, Senegal — The bodies floated down the streets and piled up at the morgue, where the coroners struggled to find room for all of the dead. An already devastating flood the day before produced ev...
Dr. Ruth Pfau, a German-born medical missionary who was hailed as the “Mother Teresa of Pakistan” for her pivotal role in containing leprosy there, died on Thursday in a hospital in Karachi. She was 8...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration criticized the Islamic State on Tuesday for its persecution of religious minorities but made no mention of a recent rise in attacks against Muslims in the United...
OIA, Spain — Since medieval times, the people of Galicia have ritually rounded up the horses that roam wild in the green forests and hills of northwestern Spain. At least once a year, during the Rapa...
The target of the Egyptian police, that day in November 2015, was the street vendors selling socks, $2 sunglasses and fake jewelry, who clustered under the arcades of the elegant century-old buildings...
To Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s coordinator on Britain’s exit from the European Union, it is “fantasy”; to Britain’s opposition Labour Party, “contradictory”; and to Nicola Sturgeon, the...
JOHANNESBURG/HARARE — Zimbabwe's first lady, Grace Mugabe, returned home on Tuesday from South Africa after failing to turn herself in to police in Johannesburg to face charges of assaulting a model i...
Mikhail Malakhov has been to the North Pole 31 times, he says, following in the footsteps of generations of Russian explorers. He even did a trip on skis. So his latest adventure is a cinch. For nea...
