India Plans Big Detention Camps for Migrants. Muslims Are Afraid.
NEW DELHI — More than four million people in India, mostly Muslims, are at risk of being declared foreign migrants as the government pushes a...
Explosion Turns Kabul Wedding Into Carnage; Dozens Feared Dead
KABUL, Afghanistan — An explosion ripped through a packed wedding hall in Kabul late on Saturday evening, and dozens were feared dead. Nasrat Rahimi, a...
A Year of Stock Market Fury, Signifying Nearly Nothing
A Year of Stock Market Fury, Signifying Nearly Nothing Despite wild swings stemming from the trade war, gains over the last 12 months have been...
Trudeau, in Trouble in Much of Canada, Still Has Fans in Quebec
OTTAWA — When Canadians decide this fall whether to return Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to office, Quebec’s votes will be critical. So it’s a good...
With Pickets, Russian Protesters Look to Sustain Momentum
MOSCOW — Antigovernment protesters staged a series of pickets across Moscow on Saturday, trying to sustain the momentum of the growing Russian opposition movement that...
Trump Administration Approves F-16 Fighter Jet Sales to Taiwan
The Trump administration is moving forward with an $8 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, American officials said Friday. The move is certain...
Paule Marshall, Influential Black Novelist, Dies at 90
Paule Marshall, an influential writer whose novels and short stories about ethnic identity, race and colonialism reflected her upbringing in Brooklyn as a daughter of...
Jean-Pierre Mocky, Iconoclastic French Film Director, Dies at 90
Jean-Pierre Mocky, a fiercely independent French filmmaker whose dozens of movies gleefully skewered what he saw as society’s vices and hypocrisies, died on Aug. 8...
Germany Has Powered Europe’s Economy. What Happens When Its Engine Stalls?
FRANKFURT — When a debt crisis slammed the eurozone nearly a decade ago, Germany’s powerhouse economy helped lift troubled neighbors like Greece, Portugal and Spain...
‘Greenland Is Not for Sale’: Trump’s Talk of a Purchase Draws Derision
COPENHAGEN — President Trump’s idea to possibly buy Greenland for its natural resources left residents of the semiautonomous Danish territory amused, apoplectic and in disbelief,...