It’s only Wednesday, but for my money, the most important international article The New York Times will publish this week is this one about women in South Korea forced or tricked into violent sexual servitude as “comfort women” for foreign soldiers. The story of Korean women enslaved by the Japanese during World War II is […]

As he campaigned for the Philippines presidency last year, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. vowed to continue walking the foreign policy tightrope that many Southeast Asian countries had traversed between China and the United States, warning that “if you let the U.S. come in, you make China your enemy.” On Monday, though, he sat at the White […]

Two explosions at a compound for counterterrorism police in northern Pakistan killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens late Monday, police officials said, after months of increased terrorist attacks that have raised alarms across the country. Pakistani Taliban militants have repeatedly targeted the police, particularly counterterrorism department officials, in recent months. And the area […]

A Russian warplane accidentally dropped a bomb on one of its own cities, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday. The blast wounded three people and spread panic in a major city along the border with Ukraine. Reports first came in on Thursday night that an explosion had ripped through central Belgorod, a southern Russian […]

Chinese authorities said they have arrested a dozen people in connection with a hospital fire in Beijing that has claimed the lives of at least 29 victims, attributing the blaze to possible negligence after sparks from internal construction ignited flammable paint. At a news conference on Wednesday, officials said most of the deceased were patients […]

The two women fought their families, survived beatings, put up with death threats and were forcibly separated before they could live together as a couple. Now, they are fighting for their right to get married in India. “It will give us legal proof, and I can show it to my parents, who are still opposed […]

The last time President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, spoke, they celebrated 30 years of diplomatic ties, hailing their “deepening political mutual trust” and their people’s “profound friendship.” That was in January of last year. Less than two months later, Russia, one of China’s closest partners, invaded Ukraine. Mr. Xi […]

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan was safely evacuated on Saturday after an explosion was heard just before he was scheduled to give a speech, the country’s national broadcaster said. The episode took place late Saturday morning in the western Japanese city of Wakayama, the broadcaster, NHK, reported. By The New York Times Mr. Kishida […]

North Korea said on Friday that it had test-launched a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time, technology that would be a significant step forward for its missile program if developed successfully. The launch on Thursday, off the North’s east coast, was reported at the time by South Korea’s military, which said only that […]

Myanmar’s military regime continued its relentless campaign of airstrikes on Tuesday by bombing a large gathering in rebel-held territory, killing at least 100 people in the junta’s deadliest attack since seizing power in a coup more than two years ago. At least 30 children were among the dead in the attack in Sagaing Region, said […]