Tens of thousands escaped into Bangladesh, where they told New York Times journalists accounts of massacres by security forces. Hunger and hardship await them across the border.
North Korea’s state news agency offered no evidence for the claim, other than a photo of what it said was a hydrogen bomb ready to be loaded onto an ICBM.
The popularity of shared-use bikes has brought a wave of misbehavior, raising questions about social decay and the decline of decorum.
Across every sector the nation relies on, production is falling and prices are skyrocketing. One family cooks over an open-air fire because propane gas is so scarce.
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The Feast of Sacrifice, or “big Eid,” is one of the two major religious festivals of Islam.
A storm in a wineglass has erupted between Italy and Britain when some British dentists claimed that prosecco causes chronic tooth decay.
The house that was a haven to the civil rights pioneer in the 1950s was turned into an art exhibit. It still needs a permanent home.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced the charges after three more bodyguards were indicted by a federal grand jury over a brawl in Washington.
Councilors in London’s Kensington and Chelsea borough, home to some of the city’s wealthiest and poorest residents, are accused of catering to the wealthy and ignoring the poor.
Crossrail is a megaproject meant to bind London together. But in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, it may signal the end of an ambitious era.
The test Sunday was an extraordinary show of defiance by the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, against President Trump.
A rights advocate called Kem Sokha’s arrest a “disastrous setback” for human rights in Cambodia as Prime Minister Hun Sen consolidates power.
The president’s advisers are deeply divided over the idea, as negotiators from both countries struggle to rewrite the five-year-old deal.
A street altercation in Shanghai has renewed a national discussion about the powers of the police to push back against irate residents.
Voice of Baceprot, a rising metal band made up of three teenage girls, is challenging entrenched stereotypes about gender and religious norms in the country.
At least three gunmen wearing explosive vests attacked the state-run power station near Samarra, forcing it to shut down.
American officials say the pace of the fight against the Islamic State is not slowing, even as the militants’ territory continues to shrink.
Iraqi commanders attributed the comparatively light damage to an escape corridor they had purposely left so the fighters would flee into the desert.
The Islamic State’s convoy, chased around Syria for five days with nowhere to go, has become emblematic of the militants’ declining fortunes.
A convoy of 308 Islamic State militants has nowhere to go, with angry ISIS comrades in front of them, a broken Syrian deal behind and U.S. bombers overhead.
The blaze brought back memories of the deaths of 67 students in a Kenya dormitory fire in 2001.
Many are calling Chief Justice David Maraga a national hero after the Supreme Court said the presidential vote was tainted by “irregularities and illegalities.”
The justices threw out last month’s re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta, calling the result “null and void” and ordering a new vote.
Dionne Searcey says that even with sometimes spotty internet connectivity, West Africans have embraced smartphones and apps like WhatsApp and Skype.
Near Virunga National Park, hydroelectric power plants provide electricity that could guard against deforestation and revitalize a war-torn country.
This week’s Australia newsletter features a conversation with our correspondent in Seoul, South Korea.
A conversation with Choe Sang-Hun, the New York Times’s Seoul correspondent, about where the standoff might be headed.
A faction of the state’s Liberals is considering a motion to investigate breaking away from the country. A far-fetched idea, maybe, but not a new one.
The campaign to vote “no” on legalizing same-sex marriage tries to refocus the debate on the welfare of children.
Scholars have debated for decades the purpose of 60 numbers written on a small clay tablet. Two Australian mathematicians believe they have figured it out.
Santiago Maldonado’s disappearance has transfixed Argentines and emerged as a flash point in the coming legislative election.
A roundup of news for and about Canada
President Trump said he would announce a decision by Tuesday on whether he will end the Obama-era program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
The ruling comes amid a fight between conservationists and President Michel Temer over environmental protections and indigenous rights.
The subarctic town of Churchill has been stranded since May, when floods washed out its only link to the south. And the rail’s American owners don’t want to fix it.
President Trump often contradicts his own national security team. This rogue-cop routine has serious foreign policy consequences.
Pakistan would not risk the wrath of the United States if its concerns about India in Afghanistan were imaginary.
If Iran is the only country that cares what happens after the war ends, the Middle East will be in big trouble.
If Jeremy Corbyn’s party is ever to get back in power, it has to win over its lost workers.
What counts as progress? I traveled to Africa to see what has, and hasn’t, changed since the author’s visit over a century ago.
