President Trump is accustomed to using strong statements as a negotiating tactic. But on the global stage, the politics of intimidation can get complicated.
A ban on North Korean seafood exports began to be felt this week, curtailing an easy source of cash for the North Korean government but angering Chinese wholesalers.
With hundreds dead and hundreds more missing after torrential rains and mudslides, residents of the country’s capital can’t find room for all the dead.
Comments by the prime minister, who called the decision by Yarra “a repudiation” of national values, stoked discussion about the meaning of the holiday.
Raila Odinga, who lost last week’s presidential election to the incumbent, President Uhuru Kenyatta, says he will challenge the result in the Supreme Court.
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.
When people online incorrectly identified a man as a participant at a white nationalist rally, they fell into a common trap of being deceived by similar hairstyles.
Britain has vowed to keep an open frontier but remains vague about how to accomplish that while exiting the European Union’s single market and customs union.
Aleksei V. Ulyukayev, who is accused of taking $2 million in bribes, says he was set up in retaliation for his opposition to the sale of a company to the state oil giant Rosneft.
Men accused or convicted of rape in Lebanon will no longer be exonerated if they marry their victims, as the country joins several other Arab nations in reversing such laws.
Old, sick and increasingly frustrated, Mehdi Karroubi, who has been under house arrest since 2011, demanded a public trial in exchange for ending his fast.
Step onto Failaka Island in the Persian Gulf, which was seized by Iraqi forces during the invasion of Kuwait. Bullet-riddled and abandoned buildings mark this remnant of the gulf war.
People in Seoul are largely unmoved by the fact that their city lies within the range of North Korean artillery, rockets and missiles, writes our Korean correspondent.
The combat death was the 11th time an American was killed this year in the war in Afghanistan and came after the deaths of two soldiers in Iraq this week.
Amid political pressure, Tencent’s popular Honor of Kings added limits on how long young people can play, but fake accounts and other workarounds have proliferated.
A South African model said Grace Mugabe attacked her with an extension cord after finding her with the first lady’s two sons in a luxury hotel room in Johannesburg.
Mayhem is spreading, tens of thousands of people have been displaced, and aid groups warn that “we cannot operate in a country where we are the target.”
Australia’s top diplomat said a New Zealand party was meddling in her country’s politics by exposing questions about the citizenship of Australia’s deputy prime minister.
A government panel wants priests to reveal when they hear of sexual abuse in the sanctity of the confessional, but the archbishop of Melbourne said he’d rather go to jail.
The revelation that Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is also a New Zealander risks making him the latest Australian forced from office over dual citizenship.
Officials accused the country’s ousted attorney general, Luisa Ortega, of turning her office into a center for extortion and said her husband ran the operation.
Seventy years ago, millions of people were uprooted as British India was carved up along religious and political lines. Here are some of their stories.
