7.7-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Myanmar With Shaking Felt in Bangkok
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said, damaging buildings the...
Xi Jinping Meets Global Business Leaders Amid Trade Tensions
Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, met with executives of Saudi Aramco, BMW, Toyota Motor, FedEx and dozens of other foreign com...
Friday Briefing
President Trump’s plan to impose a 25 percent tariff on cars and parts has sent a shudder through the global auto industry ....
Trump Could Hand China a ‘Strategic Victory’ by Silencing Voice of America
In December 1967, when he arrived at a snowy farm on China’s northeastern border with the Soviet Union, Xu Chenggang carried ...
For Some Autocrats, Even Rigged Elections Can Be Too Much of a Threat
Over the last two decades, countries like Turkey , Hungary , Venezuela and India gave the world a lesson on how democra...
In Japan, an Iceless Lake and an Absent God Sound an Ancient Warning
For at least six centuries, residents along a lake in the mountains of central Japan have marked the depth of winter by celeb...
Pope Francis Came Near Death in Hospital, His Doctor Says
The pope’s doctors did not think he was going to make it. “It’s terrible,” Pope Francis gasped during a breathing crisis la...
Mining Company Seeks Trump Support to Shortcut Access to Seabed Metals
The long-running battle over whether to allow Pacific Ocean seabed mining took an unexpected turn Thursday when a company dis...
CoreWeave Scales Back Ambition for Its I.P.O.
When CoreWeave, the cloud computing company vying to become the first major artificial intelligence start-up to go public, ...
F.B.I. Agents in Southeast Asia Used Prostitutes, Watchdog Says
F.B.I. agents stationed overseas had sex with prostitutes in Cambodia, the Philippines and Thailand, even as some bureau empl...