Zambia’s New President, Edgar Lungu, Is Sworn In
LONDON — After weeks of political wrangling and tension, Edgar Lungu was sworn in on Sunday as Zambia’s new president, overcoming a close political challenge and divisions within his own…
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LONDON — After weeks of political wrangling and tension, Edgar Lungu was sworn in on Sunday as Zambia’s new president, overcoming a close political challenge and divisions within his own…
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Towns and cities across Pakistan plunged into darkness early Sunday when an apparent militant attack on a transmission line short-circuited the national electricity grid, presenting a fresh…
LAGOS, Nigeria — Concerned that Nigeria could face postelection turmoil, Secretary of State John Kerry arrived here on Sunday to urge President Goodluck Jonathan and his principal political rival to…
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Maiduguri, the major city in Nigeria’s northeast, came under sustained attack from Boko Haram terrorists on Sunday morning, with officials here calling it the group’s most audacious…
Republican governors across the nation are proposing tax increases — and backing off pledges to cut taxes — as they strike a decidedly un-Republican pose in the face of budget…
ATHENS — Greeks streamed to the polls on Sunday in a pivotal election that was expected to usher in the first anti-austerity government in Europe, reflecting years of economic hardship,…
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Mark Garren does not take communion when he goes to church. Sometimes he walks up to the priest, crosses his arms over his chest and touches his shoulders to signal…
SANA, Yemen — Yemen’s Parliament on Sunday called off a meeting that was supposed to discuss the resignation of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, extending the state of political deadlock…
NEW DELHI — President Obama arrived here on Sunday morning for a three-day visit aimed at forging agreements with India to work together to curb climate change and to break…
BRUSSELS — When Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian-born son of an immigrant shopkeeper from Morocco, went to Syria a year ago to wage jihad, nobody paid much attention. He was just…
Sculptures of soccer players lined the entrance to Marbella Football Center in San Pedro de Alcantara, Spain.” ESTEPONA, Spain — F.C. Basel, the best soccer team in Switzerland, went to…
Follow Us: Get the Upshot in your Inbox JAN. 24, 2015 Economic View – Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Follow him on Twitter at…
EverTrue, a Boston start-up that applies modern social media analytics to the traditional field of higher-education fund-raising, was born out of the frustrations of Brent Grinna, a former captain of…
SEOUL, South Korea — As a math professor in North Korea, Jang Se-yul was among the nation’s relatively privileged classes; he got to sit in special seats in restaurants and…
DAVOS, Switzerland — On opening night at the annual gathering of the moneyed here, Russia’s state-owned bank VTB put on a lavish party, with dancers in gorgeous versions of Russian…
CAIRO — The extremist Islamist militant group Ansar al-Shariah, based in Benghazi, Libya, said Saturday that its leader, Mohammed al-Zahawi, had been killed. Unconfirmed reports that Mr. Zahawi was wounded…
LONDON — It has consumed more than eight years of maneuvering, obstruction and a widow’s dogged legal campaign, fought often on a shoestring. But finally, on Tuesday, a public inquiry…
CAIRO — An Egyptian court ordered a retrial for 37 Muslim Brotherhood members sentenced to death and 115 others sentenced to life in a mass trial last year, judicial officials…
BEIJING — Despite the crowds and the risk of arrest, the African man standing outside an Adidas outlet here one recent wintry evening was brazen in his pitch. “Hey man,…
LUXEMBOURG — “Can you cover for me? I trust you,” whispers Marie-France, a scheming receptionist played by Nathalie Baye, to a co-worker in a small, brightly lit office. As she…
NEW DELHI — A year after the arrest of an Indian diplomat accused of exploiting a domestic worker in New York ruptured relations, India and the United States have put…
HAZEL PARK, Mich. — On a snowy night in 2011, April DeBoer, Jayne Rowse and their three children were driving in their minivan down a rural road when a truck,…
TOKYO — The Japanese government expressed outrage at an image released Saturday that purported to show the decapitated body of one of two Japanese hostages captured by Islamic State militants…
WASHINGTON — Relations between American military trainers and specialists advising the Nigerian military in the fight against Boko Haram are so strained that the Pentagon often bypasses the Nigerians altogether,…
AMMAN, Jordan — At first glance the official slogan and emblem of the Houthis, who are now the dominant force in Yemen, does not offer much hope to American policy…
When you buy a bottle of Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon, you trust that the bottle is filled with wine actually made from cabernet sauvignon grapes that were grown in the…
Strategies By JEFF SOMMER United States Treasury secretaries routinely say that they favor a strong dollar, regardless of circumstances or economic conditions. And the dollar is strong right now, thanks…
TOKYO — The Japanese government expressed outrage at an image released Saturday that purported to show the decapitated body of one of two Japanese hostages captured by Islamic State militants,…
For years, it was something of a ritual. You had made it through airport security, survived the lengthy delays and even crammed your carry-on into an overhead bin. Then you…