The spectacular climb of David Mabuza, the country’s new deputy president, included siphoning off money from schools and other public services to amass enormous power, officials say.
A trip along the Euphrates reveals damaged and depopulated towns, and an uneasy front held by a tenuous American presence.
Hot weather has touched all of the continent, but it has had the most impact in northern countries, unaccustomed to sustained heat, suggesting that hard years lie ahead.
Daisy Osakue, whose eye was struck in an assault, has become the bandaged face of a question confronting Italy: Is it more racist under the anti-immigrant government?
Tokyo Medical University was reported to have secretly skewed test scores out of the belief that women were more likely to drop out of the profession.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is urging Asian allies to keep pressuring North Korea with economic sanctions.
Street violence subsided but political clashes continued. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory became official, but his opponent, Nelson Chamisa, still insists he won.
A rare two-day public hearing on abortion comes as legislators are trying to restrict the practice.
DNA tests have determined the identity of a man taken from his mother as a baby by the former dictatorship, Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo said.
On a government-led tour of repatriation centers and the surrounding countryside, the sanctioned narrative grew sticky with contradictions as witnesses spoke up.
Italy decided that the ceramics center of Grottaglie — with its long runway and uneventful weather — had the right stuff to be Virgin Galactic’s next launchpad.
Dozens of churches in Quebec have been repurposed into reading rooms, luxury condos, cheese emporiums and upmarket fitness centers in a Canadian province where the Catholic Church is in decline.
Thailand’s capital, with little green space and deadly reptiles, is not ideal for pets. But owners spoil their dogs and cats in life — and often cremate them in a Buddhist ceremony when they die.
Three islands in the South Pacific are being swept away by currents and climate change. But the seaweed farmers there are doing everything they can to stay.
Our correspondent went to the deserts of Patagonia to examine how China secured its new base, a symbol of its growing clout in the region.
Beijing is putting billions of dollars behind facial recognition and other technologies to track and control its citizens.
A Times investigation into Sri Lanka’s handover of its Hambantota Port starkly illustrates how China turned an ally’s struggles to its strategic advantage.
Hun Sen, the longest-ruling leader in Asia, has turned his back on Western aid and tightened his grip on Cambodia, with the blessings of Beijing.