By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS June 24, 2017 BERLIN — Meng Meng and Jiao Qing — two giant pandas — arrived on Saturday to fanfare in Berlin, where they will…

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS June 24, 2017 DAMASCUS, Syria — The Syrian government on Saturday released hundreds of detainees, including some who had backed the insurgency against President Bashar…

By STEVEN ERLANGER June 24, 2017 LONDON — The British Parliament was the target of a cyberattack that left many legislators unable to connect to their email on…

By NORIMITSU ONISHI June 24, 2017 LUANDA, Angola — An ambitious reconstruction plan after Angola’s civil war was meant to reach even the country’s most faraway corner, a…

By CHRIS BUCKLEY and JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ June 24, 2017 BEIJING — Hundreds of rescue workers tapped, poked and dug through the earth and rubble left by a landslide that smothered…

By STEPHEN CASTLE June 24, 2017 LONDON — Addise Mekonen was working a night shift on Friday when he learned from television news that his apartment was one…

By CHOE SANG-HUN June 24, 2017 SEOUL, South Korea — President Moon Jae-in of South Korea on Saturday proposed that his country and North Korea form a unified…

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, DANNY HAKIM and JAMES GLANZ June 24, 2017 LONDON — The doorbell woke Yassin Adam just before 1 a.m. A neighbor was frantically alerting others on the fourth…

By JASON HOROWITZ June 24, 2017 COMO, Italy — The center-right candidate for mayor of Como, Mario Landriscina, a doctor who once did United Nations relief work, says…

By CHRIS BUCKLEY June 23, 2017 BEIJING — More than 100 people in southwestern China are feared to have been buried under an avalanche of mud and rocks…

By RICK GLADSTONE June 23, 2017 The newly elevated crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who as defense minister has led the country’s bombing and blockades of Yemen, showed…

The office of the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, created in early 2009, will be folded back into a State Department bureau.

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Lookouts and radar operators on the destroyer Fitzgerald should have spotted the freighter it collided with, and the captain should have been wakened.

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The authorities confronted militants in three places, and one of them blew himself up, wounding five security officers and six bystanders.

The United Nations’ human rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, presented details of men, pregnant women and babies who were mutilated by a government-linked militia and insurgents.

American officials say they have no concrete evidence on whether the most well-known Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the target of a long manhunt, is…

The parliament voted unanimously to void the convictions of those prosecuted under a law forbidding sex between men. The law was repealed in 1994.

Gary Haggarty, a former Protestant paramilitary leader in Northern Ireland’s Troubles, pleaded guilty on Friday to hundreds of crimes committed while he was also a police…

The attacks, before an important Muslim holiday, raised concerns about the growing challenges facing Pakistan’s security forces.

The Trump administration began searching early on for ways to free Austin Tice, a journalist who has been missing since 2012.

A chapter on evolution will no longer appear in ninth graders’ textbooks because it is considered too “controversial” an idea, an education official said.

Before the referendum and over the past year, we’ve delved into questions of identity, economics, finance and politics surrounding “Brexit.” Read seven of our favorites.

Geoffrey Hinton, a scientist at the heart of artificial intelligence’s recent breakthroughs, has helped make Toronto a leading research location.

Even after the tour operator that sold a North Korea trip to Otto Warmbier abandons American clients, others still sell a trip there as one-of-a-kind.

A government spokesman said the young American who died less than a week after he was released from North Korean captivity had been well cared for.

Intelligence reports also suggested that two militants linked to the siege of the city were killed in the fighting.

The authorities said the blaze at Grenfell Tower began with a faulty refrigerator, and cladding and insulation have failed investigators’ safety tests.

A verdict in the genocide prosecution of Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, the last surviving leaders of a movement that killed 1.7 million people, could take…

The list includes shutting down the news network Al Jazeera, abandoning links with Islamist organizations and downgrading ties with Iran.

The plainclothes officer had fired into a crowd of people who thought he was a spy or assassin, witnesses said. He was then stripped naked and…

The case involving Yu Huan, who had come to his mother’s defense, provoked a national debate about family honor and filial piety.

“It’s been a while and maybe it’s time,” the film star said, after asking, “When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?”

Canada celebrates its 150th birthday on July 1. Like all nations, it has its cherished symbols. Is it time to update some of them, maybe in…

President Moon Jae-in of South Korea attended the test firing of a new ballistic missile that he believes can add leverage to talks with the North…

Radwan Ziadeh, a dissident who faced persecution in Syria, has been denied asylum because of a measure that targets even groups the United States supports.

By CHOE SANG-HUN June 23, 2017 SEOUL, South Korea — A longtime friend of Park Geun-hye, the ousted president of South Korea, was sentenced to three years in…

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A carbon trading program is shaping up as a big policy retort to President Trump’s decision to quit the Paris accord. But getting local industries on…

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Al Nuri Grand Mosque, in Mosul, Iraq, was blown up on Wednesday. The Islamic State said a U.S. airstrike destroyed it. But surveillance footage shows that…

The decision by the Department of Agriculture, citing safety concerns, is a blow to Brazil’s meat industry, which is reeling from bribery accusations.

By AZAM AHMED June 22, 2017 MEXICO CITY — Even as Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that his government had purchased…

By ADAM BAIDAWI June 22, 2017 SYDNEY, Australia — Some are clean-shaven 18-year-olds whose hairstyles command as much of their attention as their pursuit of a home. Others…

By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT June 22, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is sending a civilian team into Syria to try to bring stability to areas that American-backed…

By SOMINI SENGUPTA June 22, 2017 UNITED NATIONS — Britain suffered a diplomatic blow on Thursday as the United Nations General Assembly voted to refer London’s territorial claim…

Recently the United States has shot down a Syrian warplane, come close to shooting another and downed two Iranian-made drones that were nearing American-backed troops.

By IAN AUSTEN June 22, 2017 TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said Thursday that he had a productive relationship with President Trump despite their broad…

At least 16 Americans have been arrested in North Korea since 1996. Each situation is unique, but there are common threads when it comes to how…

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The agreements, for 73 aircraft, suggest an industry bet that the Trump administration will not block such transactions despite its hostility toward Iran.

By JAMES KANTER June 22, 2017 BRUSSELS — Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain vowed on Thursday to protect the rights of millions of citizens of other European…

By NANA BOAKYE-YIADOM June 22, 2017 ACCRA, Ghana — The Supreme Court of Ghana ruled Thursday that the government’s decision to allow two former Guantánamo Bay detainees to…

By DIONNE SEARCEY and JAIME YAYA BARRY June 22, 2017 TONGO, Senegal — Amadou Anne, the oldest son, tried first. “If you have a way to get there, maybe you should…

By CHRISTOPHER MELE June 22, 2017 A Montreal man charged with stabbing a police officer in the neck at a Michigan airport on Wednesday is a married father…

The 32-year-old prince said in an interview with Newsweek that members of the royal family would be fulfilling their duties, rather than their desires, as Queen…

By DAN BILEFSKY June 22, 2017 LONDON — Senior people in the Church of England “colluded” over two decades with a bishop to help cover up his serial…

June 22, 2017 By JACK EWING FRANKFURT — Volkswagen is delving into quantum computing. BMW is building a giant new data center. And Bosch this week…

By JASON HOROWITZ June 22, 2017 ROME — On a sweltering Monday afternoon, a beautiful day for a swim, Mario Messina noticed some holidaymakers teetering dangerously close to…

By ANDREW E. KRAMER June 22, 2017 MOSCOW — Petro O. Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president, called it the collapse of the “paper curtain.” Since June 11, when 30 European…

The 51-year-old father of six died when a van crashed into a crowd of Muslims after Ramadan prayers early on June 19.

By TAIMOOR SHAH and ROD NORDLAND June 22, 2017 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A car bombing killed at least 22 people and wounded 50 as they lined up at a bank…

By SEWELL CHAN June 22, 2017 LONDON — Hundreds of high-rise buildings in Britain have potentially combustible exterior cladding similar to the kind that covered Grenfell Tower, where…

June 22, 2017 The Interpreter By MAX FISHER TORONTO — As President Trump disrupts alliances across the map, nearly every level of government in Canada has…

Europe Edition By PATRICK BOEHLER June 22, 2017 (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • One…

By DAMIEN CAVE June 21, 2017 Damien Cave, our Australia bureau chief, shares insights on global news, local recommendations and feedback from readers in this weekly newsletter. To…

By DAVID E. SANGER and GARDINER HARRIS June 21, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has come under growing pressure to open negotiations on a temporary freeze on North Korea’s nuclear…

By MARK LANDLER and MARK MAZZETTI June 21, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump wasted no time on Wednesday calling the newly named crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman….