In Just a Week, ‘Nicaragua Changed’ as Protesters Cracked a Leader’s Grip
President Daniel Ortega, once a revolutionary hero, faces Nicaragua’s biggest uprising in decades as protesters pry themselves free from his control.
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Photo CreditFred Dufour/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images When Modi and Xi Meet, Indian Elections Will Set the Tone
At a meeting in China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will, explicitly or not, be seeking President Xi Jinping’s help to win next year’s Indian election.
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Photo CreditEPA, via Shutterstock Bus Driver in India Is Distracted by Music, and 13 Children Die
For the third time in recent years, a negligent school bus driver in the country who was listening to music crashed into a train.
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Photo CreditStephen Crowley/The New York Times Merkel Is Next to Visit Trump, Skipping the Bonhomie
In contrast to the pomp lavished on the French president, the German chancellor will be given a working lunch and is expected to be all business.
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10 South Sudan Aid Workers Are Abducted, U.N. Says
The humanitarian aid workers were traveling in a convoy between two cities when they went disappeared.
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Photo CreditYasser Al-Zayyat/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Philippine Envoy to Kuwait Expelled After So-Called Rescue of Domestic Workers
The expulsion was the latest action in a mounting diplomatic dispute prompted by the discovery of a Filipina maid’s body in a freezer in February.
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Photo CreditHulton Archive, via Getty images When North Met South: A Short History of Inter-Korean Summits
Two previous meetings between leaders of the Koreas paved the way for the talks Friday between Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in.
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Photo CreditDavid Douglas Duncan The Korean War in Pictures
Three years of fighting ended when North Korea, China and the United States reached an armistice in 1953. But no formal peace treaty was ever brokered.
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Photo CreditFazry Ismail/European Pressphoto Agency, via Shutterstock Behind a Roadside Hit in Malaysia, Israeli-Palestinian Intrigue
An engineer is the latest Hamas figure to be targeted abroad by Israel’s Mossad spy agency, officials say, as another conspiracy plays out in Kuala Lumpur.
