India’s government has pressured advertisers and even shut down channels to shape the information that 1.3 billion Indians receive. It’s part of a wider assault on dissent.

The country’s ambitions to become a global power, lift its poor and update its military have been set back by a sharp economic plunge, soaring infections and a widening sense of malaise.

Taras and Olha Melster signed up to help the war effort. Like many other urban professionals in Ukraine, they never expected to be sent to the front line.

A young man fleeing war in Sudan and a young woman evacuating Ukraine crossed into Poland at the same time. They had very different experiences.

Fatalities have been overlooked or downplayed, understating the human toll of the country’s outbreak, which accounts for nearly half of all new cases in a global surge.

For an unconventional former Marine colonel, Ukraine represents the morally just war that eluded him his entire career. But how much can he and his military start-up help?

Despite evidence of widespread police brutality, no significant grass-roots movement has arisen. For many Indians, day-to-day crime is the more pressing issue.

The bodies of a lawyer, his last known client and a taxi driver were discovered after their disappearance last week unsettled human rights activists.

The Kashmir conflict, which once brought India and Pakistan to the brink of nuclear war, has become a bitterly personal, and mostly local, insurgency.

Frenzied raves. Crowded bars (with free therapy). And of course, cuddle parties. Nightlife is returning to Ukraine’s capital. But revelers still have to reckon with guilty feelings. Plus curfew.

Over nearly two decades, Iryna Abramova and her husband, Oleh, built a life of love and happiness. Now, she says, she wishes the Russian soldiers had shot her, too.

The conflict in Ukraine has split apart millions of families. The story of Andrii Shapovalov and Tetiana Shapovalova reveals how a couple’s bond can become a casualty.

Even for Kenyans who have seen countless corruption scandals, graft coming to light now is almost too outrageous to believe.

The story of Joefred and Ralfred Gregory has resonated widely as India suffered the most virus deaths in a single day of any country during the pandemic.

Crowded cities, lockdown fatigue and a lack of contact tracing have spread the coronavirus to every corner of the vast country.

Ebola can be battled back, but conditions in Sierra Leone make it very, very hard.

For a Jewish reporter with Eastern European roots, one of the hardest challenges covering the war is reconciling the horrors of the Holocaust with the Poland and Ukraine of today.

Mriya, the world’s largest aircraft, was destroyed in a pivotal battle at the start of the war. It was a beloved symbol for all of Ukraine but perhaps no one misses it more than its first pilot.

The Indian authorities have been outwitted by a crafty tigress that has killed more than a dozen people. So they are deploying a new weapon: cologne.

We measured how much air pollution two children, Monu and Aamya, breathed for a day to see how much inequality makes a difference.

Since April, when President Pierre Nkurunziza said he would run for a contentious third term, this country in central Africa has had an ominous cloud hanging over it.

As India suffers the world’s worst coronavirus crisis, our New Delhi bureau chief describes the fear of living amid a disease spreading at such scale and speed.

Led by young women from Eastern Europe, they are cornering Europe’s leaders and pressing them for a total energy embargo on Russia — to end the fighting and to save the planet.

The attack on a Kenyan university that killed almost 150 people exposed how powerless the country is in the face of a ruthless terrorist organization.

We measured how much air pollution two children, Monu and Aamya, breathed for a day to see how much inequality makes a difference.

President Uhuru Kenyatta had vowed to respond “in the severest way possible” to a massacre at a university last week that killed nearly 150 students.

India’s government has pressured advertisers and even shut down channels to shape the information that 1.3 billion Indians receive. It’s part of a wider assault on dissent.

An extensive paper trail reveals that the authorities in Johannesburg were warned repeatedly about the dangers in the derelict building where 76 people died in a fire this week.

The Democratic vice-presidential pick gained part of her foundation from her mother’s side of the family, which defied stereotypes in India and promoted equality for women.

Frenzied raves. Crowded bars (with free therapy). And of course, cuddle parties. Nightlife is returning to Ukraine’s capital. But revelers still have to reckon with guilty feelings. Plus curfew.

An online scam targeted prominent women in India, telling them the Ivy League was calling.

The pandemic has worsened economic distress and other factors that lead to such unions. Studies show a clear link between marrying early and dying young.