WASHINGTON — President Obama encouraged the wave of reform that has transformed the onetime pariah state of Myanmar into an emerging touchstone of change in Asia, but pointedly warned the country’s ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents, the State Department said on Monday in an annual ... Read more
DAKAR, Senegal — The outpouring of support may be more a sign of nervousness than altruism. At an international conference in Brussels this week, donors pledged $4.2 billion for Mali on a ... Read more
JAKARTA — Indonesia has had no shortage of scandals in its decade-long fight against endemic corruption, mostly involving middle-aged politicians, suspicious bank accounts, handoffs of briefcases in hotel ... Read more
Saloua Raouda Choucair did everything in her life early, or late. Her first exhibition in Beirut in 1947 is thought to be the first-ever show of abstract art in the Arab world. She had her only ... Read more
CAIRO — Wasfi Amin Wassef used to buy and sell jewelry from his shop in Cairo’s vast Khan al-Khalili bazaar. Now he mostly buys it. Well into a third year of economic malaise following ... Read more
Admitting that Islamist extremists now control some of his nation’s villages and towns, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Tuesday across Nigeria’s troubled ... Read more
TEHRAN — Iran’s presidential race entered a new, unpredictable phase on Saturday when two game-changing politicians, both out of favor with the country’s leaders, signed up as candidates in ... Read more
BOSTON — The mystery surrounding the burial of the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev has come to an end. The Boston Marathon bombing suspect was buried this week at a small Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Va. ... Read more
JERUSALEM — The Israeli police on Wednesday detained the Palestinians’ top Muslim cleric for questioning about disturbances a day earlier at a fiercely contested holy site in Jerusalem known ... Read more