Since Benedict, who resigned in 2013, published a letter on the church’s sex abuse crisis, the Vatican has been rife with talk of a rival power center to Francis.
International sanctions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program have been felt most acutely by the party and military officials who support Kim Jong-un’s totalitarian rule.
The discussions gained strength as President Emmanuel Macron and other leaders paid tribute to the firefighters who saved the cathedral from complete destruction this week.
The three climbers — Jess Roskelley, an American, and David Lama and Hansjörg Auer, both Austrian — were in Banff National Park in the western province of Alberta.
By Ian Austen
PhotoCreditKorean Central News Agency, via Associated Press
Experts say Kim Jong-un is returning to saber rattling as he tries to regain leverage over President Trump after their failed summit meeting in Vietnam.
By Choe Sang-Hun
PhotoCreditAfghan Presidential Palace, via Reuters
Taliban resistance to meeting a delegation with a large number of Afghan government officials forced organizers to postpone indefinitely an event seen as crucial to peace efforts.
Most of the victims seem to have been Germans on vacation on the Portuguese island. Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her condolences as an inquiry was opened.
The accusation that Alfred Keating, the country’s most senior defense official in Washington, had tried to surreptitiously film his co-workers ended a distinguished four-decade military career.
A separatist group in Baluchistan province took responsibility for the attack, saying it had singled out passengers who were members of the armed services.
Afghan families lovingly preserve the basic belongings of loves ones killed in attacks — sandals, toys — in memory boxes that are expressions of both grief and healing.
By David Zucchino and Fatima Faizi
PhotoCreditEric Piermont, left, and Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Istanbul has become the hub for dissidents from around the Arab world, who broadcast opposing views back into their homelands. At the same time, many local Turkish journalists remain jailed.
Few cities in China have had as grim a history over the past century as Chongqing. Now the enormous city is prospering, but faces a wave of pink slips at factories.
By Keith Bradsher
PhotoCreditAndrea Mantovani for The New York Times
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is caught up in a corruption scandal that had threatened his bid for reelection. But he survived the challenge and is now in a position to win a fourth consecutive term. We talked to voters to understand why they continued to support him.
The gun trade has provided a livelihood for generations in a remote, poor area of the Philippines. It also fuels terrorism, political murders and extrajudicial killings.
The Chinese authorities turned to a Massachusetts company and a prominent Yale researcher as they built an enormous system of surveillance and control.
Under a program China insisted was peaceful, Pakistan is cooperating on distinctly defense-related projects, including a secret plan to build new fighter jets.
By Maria Abi-Habib
PhotoCreditLucie Mikolaskova/Czech News Agency, via Associated Press
