This river is one of a network of thousands at the front line of climate change.
Even as it authorized the warship’s route near disputed islands, the administration played down the incident to avoid escalating conflict with China.
For months, residents have been caught between the Taliban, militias and government forces; a devastating earthquake is adding to the misery.
After the House of Lords derailed planned cuts to social welfare programs, the British prime minister announced a review of the chamber’s powers.
As the upper chamber in Parliament, once a preserve of the nobility, has swelled with left-leaning members, legislation from Mr. Cameron’s Conservative Party has been thwarted.
An aging population, a scarcity of jobs and a liberal abortion policy add to a demographic crisis in Cuba, where many say they cannot afford to have a child.
Ruth Ellen Brosseau entered Parliament as an obscure slate-filler in 2011, but she seized her good fortune with both hands.
The prime minister is under fire for not controlling his governing coalition as archconservatives take provocative stands amid a wave of knife attacks by Palestinians.
The site was struck multiple times by warplanes belonging to the military coalition led by Saudi Arabia, forcing evacuations, the group said.
A prosthetic nose being sold online for Halloween from America’s largest retailer managed to offend both Arabs and Jews.
To most Israeli Jews, the recent violence is a spate of random attacks against innocents. Palestinians see it as excessive force against not only attackers but anyone who looks like them.
Older Ukrainians seeking to preserve the past resist a law pushed through Parliament that requires the removal of all Communist-era names and symbols.
The confirmation of the strikes adds a new level of complexity to the United States’ struggle to craft a coherent strategy to fight the Islamic State.
The authorities dismissed claims that the Islamic State was behind a fatal shooting in Dhaka last month, saying the motive was to “keep the government under pressure.”
The House of Lords voted to delay the latest round of spending cuts proposed by Prime Minister David Cameron, which involve decreasing a cash benefit for people in low-paying jobs.
President Joko Widodo of Indonesia met with President Obama in Washington and said his country would eventually join the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The maneuver by the United States Navy is a direct challenge to China’s assertion that the artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea are a part of its territory.
Josef Ackermann, the former chief of Deutsche Bank who is now chairman of the Bank of Cyprus, had a role in the island’s crisis.
Mauricio Macri, the mayor of Buenos Aires, has driven a wedge into the dominating movement led by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Geeta, an Indian woman who is deaf and mute, wandered into Pakistan as a young girl more than a decade ago, and her return provided a public opportunity for both countries to show good will.
Using the skeletons of two children who lived in Alaska 11,500 years ago, researchers discovered the first DNA found in the region known as Beringia.
The appeal, signed in Vatican City by church representatives from five continents, targeted a widely anticipated United Nations conference in Paris next month.
Areas of the Persian Gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humidity so severe that simply being outside for several hours could threaten human life, a study says.
A well-financed opposition group is challenging Tanzania’s long-serving governing party in what is believed to be the tightest presidential election in the country’s history.
A warrior’s tomb full of precious metals and jewels is expected to give insight into the rise of the Mycenaeans, from whom Greek culture developed.
In many countries that have removed or lowered penalties for drug use, H.I.V. is being reduced, fueling a debate.
A panel of experts convened by the World Health Organization also said the increase in risk is so slight that most people should not be overly worried.
While visitors have flocked to the three-wheel vehicle to navigate the hilly city in Portugal, residents fume about pollution, noisier streets and a “quality of living problem.”
The escalation in fighting, along with Russian airstrikes, was fueling the kind of desperation that has propelled a growing number toward neighboring countries and to Europe.
The British foreign secretary confirmed the nationalities of those who died after a whale-watching boat sank.
A number of governments risk undermining democracy while pretending to protect it.
America’s search for an exit from Afghanistan continues.
It appears as if the ruler of Zimbabwe will be gone soon. So the West must reach out now to the country's next leaders.
China has been feverishly piling sand onto reefs in the South China Sea for the past year, creating seven new islets in the region. It is straining geopolitical tensions that were already taut.
Argentina, Poland, Tanzania, Guatemala, Haiti and Ivory Coast held elections on Sunday. Here is a rundown of major issues and candidates in each country, with links to New York Times coverage.
This summer, as the Majid family left Syria for Europe, The New York Times followed the group through weeks of defeat and triumph, disillusionment and determination.
What started as a popular uprising against the Syrian government four years ago has become a proto-world war with nearly a dozen countries embroiled in two overlapping conflicts.
Pro-government forces pushed north along several routes Thursday in a heavily contested region of northeastern Syria.
Modern Russia has inflamed conflict in former Soviet republics to create “frozen zones,” allowing it to influence events and confound its opponents.
Over four years of war has forced more than four million to flee the country, fueling a migrant crisis in the Middle East and Europe.
In his more than 40 trips to North Korea since 2000, David Guttenfelder has collected and photographed objects he has encountered in his travels through the country.
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