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...
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‘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,...
Israel Denies Entry to Omar and Tlaib After Trump’s Call to Block Them
JERUSALEM — Under intense pressure from President Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Thursday barred two members of the United States Congress from entering...
‘Retake Hong Kong’: A Movement, a Slogan and an Identity Crisis
HONG KONG — He has been locked up for more than a year in a secluded island jail, but the bespectacled 28-year-old inmate, Edward Leung,...
Chaos Grips Hong Kong’s Airport as Police Clash with Protesters
HONG KONG — Anti-government protesters clashed with Hong Kong riot police on Tuesday, crippling the airport for the second straight day and targeting a potent...
Hong Kong Protesters Descend on Airport, With Plans to Stay for Days
HONG KONG — Thousands of black-clad antigovernment protesters demonstrated at Hong Kong’s international airport on Friday, taking aim at both a global transit hub and...
In Afghanistan, the Endgame Demands a Difficult Balancing Act in a Region on Edge
DOHA, Qatar — Six days into negotiations that many expect will deliver a preliminary deal to end nearly two decades of United States military presence...
As Scotland’s ‘Trainspotting’ Generation Ages, the Dead Pile Up
GLASGOW — Tony Nugent was clean for almost seven years before he relapsed. He found that heroin, cruel to the young, is even less forgiving...
In Kashmir Move, Critics Say, Modi Is Trying to Make India a Hindu Nation
NEW DELHI — To India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, eliminating the autonomy of Kashmir, a disputed, predominantly Muslim territory, was an administrative move, something his...
India Revokes Kashmir’s Special Status, Raising Fears of Unrest
NEW DELHI — India’s Hindu nationalist government on Monday unilaterally wiped out the autonomy of the restive Kashmir region, sending in thousands of army troops...