Brazil’s Federal Highway Police with an abandoned truck containing 4.3 tons of marijuana and 23 pistols in the city of Toledo, close to the border with…

White nationalists carry torches on the grounds of the University of Virginia on Aug. 11. (Alejandro Alvarez/News2Share via Reuters) In this occasional series, the London bureau of…

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Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and President Hassan Rouhani greet at the official endorsement ceremony of Rouhani in Tehran, Aug. 3. (Office of the Iranian…

(iStock) “Keep Australia White.” That’s the message Melbourne schoolteachers found papered on the walls of their institutions this weekend. White supremacists had broken into three schools and…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Aug. 13. (Dan Balilty/Reuters) As neo-Nazis and white supremacists marched through Charlottesville chanting…

President Trump on Aug. 15 said that “there’s blame on both sides” for the violence that erupted in Charlottesville on Aug. 12. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)…

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PARIS — Outrage erupted Tuesday after a small Swiss hotel posted a sign asking “Jewish guests” to shower before using the swimming pool. After a hotel guest…

The waning days of the Confederacy did not look so different from the last hours of Nazi Germany. As Matthew Schofield of McClatchy Newspapers explained: “Flags were torn…

After reportedly turning herself in to South African police on Tuesday over allegations that she assaulted a 20-year-old woman who was partying with her two sons, Zimbabwean…

MILAN — The central Mediterranean is one of the world’s deadliest migration routes: Last year, 4,576 migrants lost their lives trying to reach Italy from Libya, and…

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An Internet cafe in Beijing in 2015. (How Hwee Young/European Pressphoto Agency) By all accounts, Li Ao, an 18-year-old man in Anhui province, was well-behaved but…

Video from Freetown, Sierra Leone showed a torrent of brown water rushing through the city’s streets. Many impoverished areas of Sierra Leone’s capital are close to…

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