Afghanistan Itself Is Now Taking In the Most Afghan Migrants
By ROD NORDLAND
By the end of the year, officials expect some 1.5 million migrants to return to Afghanistan — many of them forcibly, and including some registered as refugees.
By the end of the year, officials expect some 1.5 million migrants to return to Afghanistan — many of them forcibly, and including some registered as refugees.
The Times would like to hear from parents whose children are staying home from school to avoid exposure to dangerous levels of air pollution.
The closings, part of an effort to shield children in India’s capital from air pollution, affect more than a million students.
The 60-foot statue of St. Vladimir, patron saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, is part of wave monument building that seems meant to glorify more than historical figures.
The High Court decision on negotiations over Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union seemed likely to slow — but not halt — the process.
Critics have accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of using the failed coup as a pretext to neutralize all opposition, notably the main pro-Kurdish party.
Members of nationalist groups had been occupying a site that Greece had set aside for its first state-sponsored mosque — a plan that predated an influx of migrants.
Prime Minister Theresa May tried to soothe the nerves of Britain’s European partners on Friday, after her strategy to leave the European Union was imperiled.
Analysts warn that even a complete military victory over the Islamic State in Mosul will not change the reality that there is still no political agreement in place.
An exchange of gunfire occurred as the service members vehicles approached the gate of the base in Al Jafr, in southern Jordan, the authorities said.
Iranian suspects who stormed Saudi diplomatic missions in early this year were sentenced to prison.
Debit card machines are proliferating in churches, supermarkets and nightclubs as anxious Zimbabweans hoard American dollars or take them out of the country.
A mutated version of the virus was more effective at entering human cells, scientists report. The finding may help explain the vast scope of the last outbreak.
We invited readers to tell us what they want to know about the presidential campaign. Here are some responses ahead of the election.
Anywhere that kegs are tapped in Germany, you’ll find the pressed-paper discs known as bierdeckel — and people who creatively repurpose them.
A report by PEN America outlines the circumstances behind the disappearances of five booksellers last year and the fear that their case has sown in the industry.
The debate is whether two politicians should be allowed to take seats in the local legislature after altering the oath of office.
A self-driving bus being tested in Finland holds promise for reducing cities’ dependence on cars.
At 25, and after thumbing her nose at Beijing, Yau Wai-ching has emerged as the best-known and most provocative public figure in the former British colony.
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the first Christian leader of the Indonesian capital in decades, has been accused of blasphemy as he runs for re-election.
The British musician said he would appear at the inaugural show on Nov. 12, almost 12 months to the day after a terrorist assault at the venue killed 90 people.
President Park Geun-hye says she’s willing to submit to questioning by prosecutors looking into troubles that have engulfed her administration.
The leaders, Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, were detained as part of a counterterrorism investigation, state news media reported.
The move, which effectively devalues the Egyptian pound, is part of an effort to secure a desperately needed rescue loan from the International Monetary Fund.
The police in Menomonie, Wis., have no motive in the death of Hussain Saeed Alnahdi, 24, but a $20,000 reward has been announced.
The president of the Philippines, known for his salty language, broke his “promise to God” to stop swearing.
The Mediterranean crossing has been increasingly deadly this year, even as fewer asylum seekers try to make it to Europe.
The Philippine president’s strategy of balancing between the powers by threatening to change loyalties was used successfully by leaders throughout the era.
Britain voted in June to leave the European Union, but the process can begin only when the government invokes a previously unused treaty provision.
Recent arrivals from Africa and Afghanistan have been living in pup tents in the city’s northern neighborhoods, creating a new crisis for the French.
L’Aquila, devastated by a 2009 earthquake, is Italy’s largest construction site. Yet much of it still feels like a ghost town, a sobering sign for cities struck by more recent quakes.
Günther H. Oettinger, a European commissioner from Germany, expressed remorse for having described Chinese people as “slit-eyes” and “sly dogs.”
The activist, Andy Hall, said he would appeal an earlier, separate conviction and sue the company he accused of abusing migrant workers.
Wang Deshun, known as China’s hottest grandpa, is being venerated in the country as an example of how to grow old without fading away.
Officials said the Afghan dead were civilians killed by airstrikes near the provincial capital, but differed on whether strikes were Afghan or American.
The tomb was opened as part of a renovation of the shrine that was built around it long after Jesus’ death in what today is known as the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
Pavel V. Dmitrichenko, who was released from prison in May, said he received the pass this fall from the Bolshoi’s new artistic director.
This weekend, under Daniel Ortega, sham democracy has come full circle, back to the vote-without-choice farce once practiced by the Somoza dynasty.
There has never been a better time to be alive, and yet in the richest countries, there is a growing sense of unease and helplessness because people no longer feel useful.
The Republican candidate and the deceased Venezuelan president are both populists by posture, if not ideology.
Female heads of state or government are often members of political dynasties. Sometimes they follow their husbands into office, and occasionally their husbands follow them.
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