Beijing Takes Its South China Sea Strategy to the Himalayas
Just in time for its National Day in October, China completed construction of a new village high in the mountains where the Chinese region of...
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Macron Says Images of French Police Beating Black Man ‘Shame Us’
PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Friday that video images showing police officers beating a Black man “shame us,” and he condemned...
Escaping the Virus, Almost
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. In early July, I drove to Sydney...
‘Overseas’ Review: Human Capital
In 2018, the Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte honoredoverseas Filipino workers — the women deployed to Dubai, Singapore and other countries as domestic help — as...
Donors Pledge Less Aid to Afghanistan During a Violent Chapter
HERAT, Afghanistan — In one city, a gilded hall filled with suited Afghan and Western officials served as a forum to discuss the need for...
Intel and Nvidia Chips Power a Chinese Surveillance System
URUMQI, China — At the end of a desolate road rimmed by prisons, deep within a complex bristling with cameras, American technology is powering one...
Kimchi Making at Home Was Going Out of Style. Rural Towns to the Rescue.
GOESAN, South Korea — The family van was loaded with a precious cargo — 11 brown plastic boxes filled with 150 pounds of kimchi that...
Soumitra Chatterjee, Globally Acclaimed Indian Film Star, Dies at 85
Soumitra Chatterjee, an Indian actor who incarnated the beauty and fragility of youthful idealism in films by the director Satyajit Ray and helped solidify Mr....
Australian Troops Unlawfully Killed 39 Afghans, Report Finds
This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates. MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 civilians and prisoners in Afghanistan over an...
U.S. Troops Are Packing Up, Ready or Not
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Had it not been for dozens of U.S. airstrikes in recent weeks, the southern hub city Kandahar would be under siege, after...