The release of the journalist, Khadija Ismayilova, was welcomed by international rights groups after her incarceration had become an embarrassment to Azerbaijan’s president.
Zakia and Mohammad Ali, whose families oppose their union because they are from different sects, are seeking a new life in the United States.
The president’s visit to Vietnam and particularly Japan highlights old grievances as well as the current power struggles among nations big and small in Asia.
The new punishment comes in response to the brutal gang rape and murder in April of a 14-year-old girl on her way home on the island of Sumatra.
Military officials say they have improved intelligence and a disjointed process for identifying targets, and are now hitting oil facilities and secret cash coffers.
The plane’s cockpit data and voice recorders are believed to be lying on the edge of the range for hearing and locating their signals.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced an inquiry into a series of disappearances and murders, part of a promise to renew the country’s relationship with its indigenous citizens.
Mr. Álvarez dedicated his life to the fight for democracy in Mexico and was steadfast in his efforts to end the long rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
An intensifying fight over labor law changes led to long gasoline lines, and in some places the government used force to disperse protesters.
More than eight centuries after the archbishop of Canterbury was killed in the city’s cathedral, what is believed to be a piece of his elbow is traveling from Hungary back to England.
Right-wing parties have been achieving electoral success in a growing number of nations.
The Times is collecting the personal experiences of voters who have backed those groups. Whom did you support? What motivated you?
Federal prosecutors said Mr. Zarrab, a prominent Turkish-based gold trader who is jailed in New York, was a flight risk.
Two capybaras, the world’s largest rodent, were still missing more than 24 hours after breaking out of a small zoo on the city’s west end.
Several Palestinians convicted of murder or of collaborating with Israel face execution after the call by Hamas, the militant group that rules Gaza.
The police have arrested a former customer of the victim, a Hindu shoe store owner, but an account linked to Islamic militants claimed responsibility for the death.
The feud between the actor and the agriculture minister has gotten stranger, a year after Mr. Depp and his wife were forced to apologize over their dogs.
A resolution by the United Nations Security Council to lift the remaining sanctions will enable Liberia to buy arms on the global market.
The journalist, Rémy Pigaglio, worked in Egypt for almost two years and had residency permits and media accreditation that allowed him to do so legally.
A look at how France has reshaped its legal system in response to the attacks that killed 130 people in and around Paris.
A water pipe was said to have compromised a road not far from the city’s historic center; no injuries were reported.
An article by a senior scholar for the People’s Liberation Army said that Tsai Ing-wen was prone to a radical style because she lacked the “burden of love, family and children.”
There was the Mao suit. Now there’s the Xi jacket, Xi Jinping’s navy windbreaker that has become a sartorial symbol of his rule.
The report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a frequent critic of government economic plans, was a boon for Prime Minister David Cameron.
The high-profile inmate swap could help ease negotiations over a settlement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
As part of efforts to create a digital single market for online services, the region wants to create rules that would affect companies like Netflix and Facebook.
Researchers have analyzed pottery vessels discovered at a site in Shaanxi Province and determined that they are the first direct evidence of a beer-brewing operation.
The nomination was the main condition for adding Yisrael Beiteinu’s seats to Benjamin Netanyahu’s alliance, a move that underlines the government’s hawkish image.
Children as young as 8 working on tobacco farms are exposed to harmful nicotine and pesticides, according to Human Rights Watch researchers.
The American president said Vietnam need not worry about losing talented people, but then he proceeded to describe conditions that fit Vietnam perfectly.
Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings have argued that the United States will have moral authority only after it apologizes for the “original sin.”
The insurgency confirmed its former leader’s death in a drone strike, and it said the new one, Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada, would continue the war.
Marathon negotiations lead to a new round of much-needed funding and pledges for debt relief, with conditions.
Pierre Vandersmissen was hospitalized on Tuesday after a protester smashed him in the head with a stone when an anti-austerity protest became violent.
The internal security minister issued the order Tuesday after online video appeared to show a large crowd at the funeral of a man who killed a rabbi last year.
Seeking to draw a contrast with Dilma Rousseff, the suspended leftist president, Mr. Temer said he would try to repeal nationalist oil legislation, curb spending and shut down a sovereign wealth fund.
Hailed as one of the greatest museum directors of the 20th century, Willem Sandberg, also a designer, is being given his first solo show at the De La Warr Pavilion in England.
Doctors have cleared the singer, Gord Downie, to tour this summer.
Ramzan A. Kadyrov, a Kremlin darling, told his Instagram followers his cat was missing. The Internet took it from there.
While invoking Hiroshima has become a universal shorthand for the horrors of nuclear war, Nagasaki, where about 74,000 people were killed, has mostly lived in the other city’s shadow.
The prosecution follows charges that the lender laundered money for “politically exposed” individuals linked to 1MDB, the scandal-plagued Malaysian state investment fund.
The landslide, in Kachin State, came after heavy rainfall in recent days, and as many as 100 people were feared missing, an official said.
Maung Saungkha, who wrote that he had a tattoo of the country’s president on his penis, was sentenced to six months in jail and released for time served.
Mohamed Nasheed was jailed for ordering the arrest of a sitting senior judge, which the court called an abduction and punishable under a section of an antiterrorism law.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, 89, was chosen to lead an assembly that would have the authority to pick the country’s next supreme leader.
The White House had requested the meeting as a signal to Vietnam’s Communist government that the United States cares about human rights in the country.
About 8,000 migrants were living in squalid conditions in the encampment, hoping to be allowed to cross the border and head to Northern or Western Europe.
Mr. Minzner, a law professor at Fordham University, argues that under President Xi Jinping the post-Mao drive toward institutionalized governance is waning.
Italian olives painted to look greener and sugar cut with fertilizer in Sudan are just two of the illegal products that recent investigations have uncovered.
Despite the smog, honeybees live longer and produce more honey in Paris than in the French countryside, one beekeeper says.
Across South Korea, many people believe a common household appliance can kill if left on too long.
America’s killing by drone strike of an Afghan insurgent leader is a tempting tactic but bad strategy.
In a widening political scandal, the cover-up has become worse than the crime.
Norbert Hofer lost narrowly, but in the end the Freedom Party may still triumph.
Our correspondents talked to academics and writers who lived through the Cultural Revolution. Here are their stories.
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s president, is facing removal from office. Here is a step-by-step explanation of the proceedings.
Britain will hold a referendum on June 23 on whether to leave the European Union, a decision nicknamed “Brexit.”
Terrorists killed more than 200 people in a surge of bombings across Baghdad over the past week.
Ms. Rubin has spent much of her career covering Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.
The New York Times and Thomson Reuters shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of Europe’s refugee crisis. Jessica Rinaldi of the Boston Globe won the feature photography prize for her story of a boy who endured abuse at the hands of those he trusted.
