Belarus Protesters Call for General Strike Against Lukashenko
MOSCOW — For close to three months, protesters in Belarus have been beaten, jailed, pepper-sprayed, fined and exiled. But Oksana Koltovich, a bar and beauty...
Ant Group Set to Raise $34 Billion in World’s Biggest I.P.O.
Ant Group, the Chinese financial technology titan, is set to raise around $34 billion when its shares begin trading in Hong Kong and Shanghai in...
Witnessing Peru’s Enduring, if Altered, Snow Star Festival
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with travel restrictions in place worldwide, we launched a new series — The World Through a Lens —...
Killing of Teacher, Samuel Paty, Raises Doubts on French Integration
ÉVREUX, France — They could have easily shared the same classroom — the immigrant teenager and the veteran teacher known for his commitment to instilling...
‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and ‘Leopoldstadt’ Pick Up Olivier Awards
LONDON — “Dear Evan Hansen,” the hit musical about an anxious teenager who takes advantage of a fateful encounter with a schoolmate, was one of...
Trump Had One Last Story to Sell. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Buy It.
By early October, even people inside the White House believed President Trump’s re-election campaign needed a desperate rescue mission. So three men allied with the...
Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons Passes Important Threshold
A treaty aimed at destroying all nuclear weapons and forever prohibiting their use has hit an important benchmark, with Honduras becoming the 50th country to...
With Vacation Rentals Empty, European Cities See a Chance to Reclaim Housing
LISBON — Long before the coronavirus swept across Europe this spring, many cities had been complaining that a proliferation of short-term apartment rentals aimed at...
How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine
For years, The Epoch Times was a small, low-budget newspaper with an anti-China slant that was handed out free on New York street corners. But...
Venezuela Opposition Figure, Long Confined, Flees Country
The Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López fled the country Saturday after spending the past six years in jail, house arrest and diplomatic asylum, his political...