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.
Targeted by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, the Islamic State militants turned themselves into the government, but many civilians are furious at what they see as lenient treatment.
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.
While the government is not threatened, more demonstrators have been expressing anger on the streets, and they are not complaining about America.
As negotiations fail over the release of the American pastor Andrew Brunson, United States-Turkish relations deteriorate further.
A restaurant manager who brought 12 North Korean waitresses to the South says he tricked them — and that South Korean spies tricked him, too. “I wish I could turn the clock back,” he says.
Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho warned that Pyongyang would not start denuclearizing unless Washington took reciprocal actions.
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?
A trip along the Euphrates reveals damaged and depopulated towns, and an uneasy front held by a tenuous American presence.
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.