How does one survive war and not be miserable? For one veteran, it meant going back to the battlefield where it all started.

Classrooms may be empty, but universities are bustling with preparation for confrontations with the police.

An investigative reporter from a prominent Moroccan family was wrongly accused of having had an abortion. Now she wants to hold officials’ feet to the fire.

The two-day conflict has killed 16 civilians, including two 7-year-old boys and two toddlers, according to human rights investigators.

Marie Yovanovitch, Saugus High School, Cleveland Browns: Here’s what you need to know.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper had urged Seoul to reconsider abandoning a military intelligence-sharing deal with Tokyo.

The world’s largest food company is trying to show it can be environmentally sustainable and still make money. Activists are skeptical.

Stand-up comedy is sweeping Vietnam’s largest city, often called Saigon, with locals braving open-mic nights in the city’s hippest cafes and bars.

Boris Johnson, Hong Kong, Syria: Here’s what you need to know.

As bushfires swept Australia’s east coast on Tuesday, our photographer shot residents and firefighters close to the blaze.

The police and the politicians joined protesters in celebrating Iraq’s defeat of Iran in a World Cup qualifying match. Tensions between the countries are running high.

He was supposed to be an ace campaigner. But as flood victims scorn him, and protesters heckle him, he is frequently going off key.

More than 20 aftershocks followed the quake, which had a magnitude of 7.1.

Hong Kong, Australia fires, llamas: Here’s what you need to know.

The United Nations is investigating attacks on seven humanitarian sites in Syria. Diplomats say Russia is trying to keep the U.N. findings secret.

A Times article based on documents recovered by a researcher reported that ISIS made payments to members of a rival group.

The top North Korean envoy to the negotiations with Washington said he was not interested unless the United States was ready to make substantial concessions.

Two algal species share important genes with all modern land plants, a new analysis finds.

All children attending preschool or higher in the country must be immunized, with fines for parents who do not comply, under a law that is to…

Months of antigovernment protests and increasingly violent clashes with the police have upended daily life in the global financial hub, with the potential to alter the…

Behrouz Boochani, who was held for years as part of Australia’s offshore immigration detention program, arrived in New Zealand for a literary festival.

Turkey said it had received assurances from Washington that the American, whose fate had been in limbo, would not be refused entry.

The Turkish leader, who is visiting Washington, said he had returned the president’s message over a military incursion into Syria.

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After initially saying the 19-year-old had lunged at the police with a weapon, the authorities later charged an officer with murder and opened an investigation.

The ship, the S.S. Kyros, was bound for Russia when it was sunk by a German submarine during World War I, a salvage company said.

Plastic waste from America, collected for recycling, is shipped to Indonesia. Some is burned as fuel by tofu makers, producing deadly chemicals and contaminating food.

The plight of dozens of animals being treated for burned paws and singed fur is raising fears about climate change and the future of the species.

The government lowered the daytime speed limit on Dutch highways, to 62 miles per hour, in an attempt to cut nitrogen pollution.

Black-clad activists, mostly students, set elaborate road blocks, built brick walls, and practiced shooting bows and arrows.

Impeachment hearings, Ukraine, Denmark

Kiev wants Western support as it seeks to end its conflict with Russia. But amid the impeachment drama, Washington, its staunchest backer, is increasingly out of…

President Trump seemed unbothered by Turkey’s recent invasion of Syria, which prompted outrage in Congress and among some in his administration.

With Israel exchanging blows with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas faces a stark choice: Join the fight or redouble efforts to keep the Gaza border quiet.

About 80 million people with diabetes around the world need the hormone, and half of them can’t afford it. Creating competition could help, the agency said.

Trump praises mission to protect oil fields while top national security aides seek to retain allies in Syria after death of top ISIS leader.

A study from the Lancet points to infectious diseases, worsening air pollution, rising temperatures and even malnutrition as threats to child health as the climate changes. 

The leader, Jeanine Añez Chavez, was preparing to appoint a cabinet, but backers of the ousted Evo Morales have promised to disrupt the new government.

Scientists measured individual distances to compile a Top 5 list of ultramarathon runners of the mammalian kingdom.

Hong Kong, Impeachment hearings, Tom Hanks: Here’s what you need to know.

China pledged big investments in Greece and signed 16 agreements. But it turns out that the repatriation of artifacts is also drawing the nations closer.

Police operations targeting drug gangs have put children in the crossfire in the Brazilian city, where at least 21 minors have been struck by stray bullets…

The standoff, which unfolded while Brasília is hosting several heads of state for a summit, underscores the diplomatic conundrum created by competing claims to Venezuela’s presidency.

A member of the far-right Alternative for Germany party was removed as unfit for his post, a first for postwar Germany.

The interim president, Jeanine Añez Chavez, was preparing to appoint a cabinet, but backers of the ousted Evo Morales have promised to disrupt the new government.

The appearance and disappearance of an inflammatory official video is likely to reflect divisions within the government, experts said.

The airline found out about the trick after the Russian man posted photographs on social media. He has been stripped of his frequent flier miles.

Police have begun raiding the edges of campuses to make arrests, leading student activists to engage with them in pitched battles that resemble medieval sieges.

Struggling to quell a wave of explosions, the Danish authorities introduced passport controls for the first time since the 1950s.

A Spanish court ordered the extradition of Hugo Carvajal, who broke with Nicolás Maduro’s government. Now the police are searching for him.

A clash set off by Israel’s killing of an Islamic Jihad commander teetered between containment and escalation into a broader conflict.

The country has long been a model for common-sense public policy. But this week’s fires have revealed once again that its pragmatism stops at climate change.

The mayor called for a state of emergency and the closing of all schools after the Italian city was submerged under “acqua alta,” an exceptionally high…

Impeachment Hearing, Plague, Colin Kaepernick: Here’s what you need to know.

Scientists said an object four billion miles from Earth would be given a Native American name: Arrokoth. Its previous, informal name, Ultima Thule, had links to…

Scientists said an object four billion miles from Earth would be given a Native American name: Arrokoth. Its previous, informal name, Ultima Thule, had links to…

The distinctive iconography used by the Indigenous Otomí people has attracted unsolicited attention from fashion houses, which have incorporated similar images in their designs, often without…

Ihor Kolomoisky may be Ukraine’s most powerful businessman. With the impeachment spectacle rattling Kiev, he says it is time to give up on the West and…

Towns near the border with North Korea were alarmed when a stream turned red after pigs were culled over fear of African swine fever.

A movement that began peacefully six months ago has descended into chaos.

Two cases of pneumonic plague, a fatal and highly infectious illness related to bubonic plague, were diagnosed in Beijing.

Two cases of pneumonic plague, a fatal and highly infectious illness related to bubonic plague, were diagnosed in Beijing.

World energy report, impeachment hearings, Turkey: Here’s what you need to know.

There were severe public transit disruptions across the city, a day after demonstrators staged a fiery standoff against the police near a university.

The killing was sure to inflame tensions already running high in the country, which has been engulfed by protests for the past month.

Spanish leftists, American socialists and Communists from Central Europe have all found a home in Mexico over the past century and a half.

At The Sunday Times of London, he learned at the last minute that the diaries were fake, but the paper’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, ordered them published.

Ahmet Altan is one of the most prominent journalists to be detained in the widespread, and heavily criticized, government crackdown that followed a failed 2016 coup.

Protesters set a giant blaze and threw gasoline bombs on a college campus, as the police tried to repel them with tear gas.

Hong Kong, impeachment hearings, Nissan: Here’s what you need to know.

Informal relationships between family members help explain the course of diplomacy between the White House and Turkey’s leader.

Three teachers were also injured in the attack, in which a man entered a kindergarten in Yunnan Province and sprayed a caustic chemical, the official state…

The reversal comes two days after elections weakened Pedro Sánchez, the caretaker Socialist prime minister, and strengthened the far right.

SoftBank poured money into start-ups that use armies of contractors. That has upended the lives of drivers, hotel operators and real estate agents around the world.

Mr. Morales was once a hugely popular leader, hailed by the nation’s Indigenous majority and the global left. Now, he’s been ousted from office, and it…

Starting Jan. 1, menstrual products will be considered “necessary” items, as bread, books and cut flowers are.

President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed direct talks with President Vladimir V. Putin, as his American diplomatic backing unraveled in the impeachment scandal.

Bolivia prospered on the watch of its firebrand leftist president, but his refusal to step aside led to an ignominious downfall.

Gambia’s former president ordered people he accused of “witchcraft” to be kidnapped and tortured. The victims now plan to tell a truth commission what happened.

The Cold War binary of “bad” coups and “good” popular revolts no longer applies. But the labels persist, with important consequences.

The Turkish leader is preparing to travel to Washington to meet with President Trump.

Oncoming trains smashed into each other in eastern Bangladesh early Tuesday after one conductor ignored a stop signal, officials said. Dozens were injured.

The ousted Bolivian president signaled that his exile will be brief, while officials in La Paz prepared to try to form an interim government.

Israel, Jimmy Carter, Disney Plus: Here’s what you need to know.

The killings were a reminder of the stubborn threat of insurgents in rural areas of the Philippines.

The apparent exchange, in which Afghan officials are to release three senior members of the Haqqani network of the Taliban, is likely to be a step…

City officials are looking to Norway, whose correctional system is a radical departure from cold, harsh American prisons.

“The coast’s gentle, open landscape really lends itself to these minimalist boxes,” an architecture professor said.

The Israeli strike is likely to prompt a fierce response by Gaza militants after a period of relative calm.

Protesters angry over the shooting of a demonstrator by a police officer set out to block roads and force train delays.

Here’s what you need to know.

Bolivia prospered on the watch of its firebrand leftist president, but his refusal to step aside led to an ignominious downfall.

Five people have been killed and thousands injured in weeks of protests.

The Polish prime minister wrote a letter to Netflix arguing that a map of Nazi-run concentration camps falsely suggested that Poland was in charge of them.

Mr. Morales was once a hugely popular leader, hailed by Bolivia’s Indigenous people and the global left. Now, he is in hiding and ousted from office,…

Sunday’s election did little to help end the government deadlock. But it yielded one clear winner, the far-right Vox party, which has thrived amid a conflict…

Mr. Farage won’t run candidates in seats held by Mr. Johnson’s Tories. But his party may still hurt the Tories in other races.

Hong Kong, Myanmar, Uber: Here’s what you need to know.

The document on Moscow’s meddling in British politics prepared by Parliament last year is becoming a hot issue as bits and pieces begin to leak out.

Oleg Sokolov, a Russian historian known for impersonating Napoleon, was dogged for years by complaints of abuse. But he had never been held to account for…