Dispatch

One of the courses at Lai Ching-te’s inauguration banquet is rumored to be a playful nod to Xi Jinping.

Long seen as an island of stability, the country shares many of the same vulnerabilities that militants have exploited across the Sahel region.

Perhaps tens of thousands of Ukrainian women have lost their partners in the conflict with Russia. They look to rebuild amid precarity and uncertainty.

Georgians are angry at the government’s pro-Russian turn.

Newly arrived Indian workers say abuse is common.

Ammo shortages are costing lives and time.

Inside a remote forest town where Germany’s new right roosts.

As the international community turns to other crises, people fleeing Sudan’s war face dire economic conditions.

To some, Modi’s new temple embodies the revival of a Hindu golden age. To others, it symbolizes the waning of a pluralist nation.

A contested environmental legacy looms over three decades of conflict.

In the state of Kayah, a patchwork of anti-regime forces has cooperated to seize territory with surprising success.

Afghanistan’s government doesn’t recognize a 130-year-old border—and its local affiliates are causing havoc in the Pakistani borderlands.

Prabowo Subianto’s record doesn’t bode well for democracy.

The Finnish town of Ivalo now hosts the closest base to mainland Russia accessible to U.S. troops.

How a small town in an electorally significant state captured India's imagination.