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TOKYO — Kenji Ekuan, the Japanese industrial designer whose instantly recognizable soy sauce bottle — red-capped and elegantly teardrop-shaped — became one of his country’s most ubiquitous postwar exports, died…
During the past decade, foreign technology companies have plowed billions into China in the hopes of tapping into a fast-growing market. Now that the country has the world’s most Internet…
A compilation of Brian Williams’s television appearances shows how his accounts of a 2003 episode on military helicopters in Iraq gradually became more perilous. Scrambling to contain a crisis engulfing…
DAKAR, Senegal — The Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram on Friday morning struck across Nigeria’s border into Niger for the first time, broadening the regional conflict to a fourth country…
Brooke dedicated his life to serving his country. After graduating from Dunbar High School and Howard University in his native Washington, D.C., he shipped off to Italy, where he earned…
Barbies or Queens of Africa? In Nigeria, toy giant Mattel has been outsold by a brilliant idea. It all began in 2007, when entrepreneur Taofick Okoya went in search of…
And then this: “No Weapons Allowed Except Guitars.” It’s tribute to the fact that Guthrie — who wrote “This Land is Your Land” and who basically was Bob Dylan before…
SANA, Yemen — The Houthi rebels who effectively forced Yemen’s president and cabinet to step down last month announced on Friday that they intended to dissolve Parliament and take control…
Yemen’s powerful Shiite rebels have announced they are taking over the country and dissolving the parliament. The dramatic move finalizes their power grab, which has been months in the making….
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Islamic extremists from Nigeria attacked a border town inside the neighboring country of Niger, marking the second foreign country attacked by the group known as Boko Haram in several days….
I started working at the Ebola treatment center the day it opened, September 19. I cared for children, men and women with Ebola. Every day more than 100 new patients…
HONG KONG — East Timor’s prime minister, Xanana Gusmão, submitted his resignation Friday, as the government begins a political restructuring meant to ease the young country’s often-fraught politics. – Though…
Both were comrades-in-arms some four years ago when a massive anti-graft movement swept the country. They also share a common background as civil servants. Now, the two stand as rivals…
It’s a bracing I-can’t-feel-my-hands, there’s-snow-on-my-neck, why-won’t-my-car-heat-up-faster kind of cold that calls for heavy duty boots, long underwear and plates of comfort food. These were the sub-zero conditions that roughly 500…
BERLIN — The new Greek government’s debt-diplomacy tour of European capitals hit another rough patch on Thursday, as the country’s new finance minister and his German counterpart groped for common…
“It’s very encouraging and exciting that so many influential leaders in this country are signing on to assist the Governor spread his positive vision of conservative values around the country,”…
West Hollywood is a small city geographically; in total we’re less than 2 square miles in size. But our influence and impact is limitless. For 30 years now, “WeHo,” as…
Yet talk of slashing the government debt loads of European countries, starting with Greece, is back. For all the opposition, the idea has resurfaced with a vengeance in recent days…
PARIS — President François Hollande of France on Thursday sought to reassure a nation still shaken by the recent terrorist attacks in and around Paris, saying that the country would…
It’s difficult to be in two places at once. But if you’re headed to Llívia, Spain, then it’s no problem at all. That’s because it’s a country within a country….
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain hit a record high last year, with reactions to the conflict in Israel and Gaza last summer the biggest factor accounting for the…
As Jordan reels from the horrific killing of one of its fighter pilots by Islamic State militants, the death also highlights how inextricably involved the country has become in the…
WASHINGTON — The U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State became even more complicated Tuesday, after a video posted online indicated that the militant group had killed a Jordanian pilot taking…
In his native China, however, Michael Chow is better known to many as the son of the legendary Zhou Xinfang — a grand master of Beijing opera and founder of…
PARIS — French officials said Sunday they would support the new Greek government’s efforts to get the country back on its feet after five years of crushing austerity, but warned…
CAIRO — The Egyptian authorities have released and deported an Australian journalist jailed for more than a year in a case that had been criticized by human rights groups. The…
The Argentinian prosecutor who was found dead after accusing the country’s president of conspiring to cover up the country’s deadliest terror attack was more afraid of fanatical government sympathisers than…
Although the violent drug war in Colombia has dominated the headlines for years, newly-crowned Miss Universe Paulina Vega said there’s more to her home country than meets the eye. The…
“Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner is a fan of her show’s gender politics. In an interview for the March issue of Town & Country, the actor — who plays…