Late Monday, the White House confirmed an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Lavrov for Tuesday afternoon. Considerable evidence suggests any conversation with Lavrov would include the last major nuclear arms control treaty still in force between the United States and Russia: the Obama-era New START treaty, which in recent days President Vladimir Putin of Russia has said he wants to extend for another five years.
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December 10, 2019The Trump administration has refused to support a move by members of the United Nations Security Council to hold a discussion Tuesday on North Korea’s rampant human rights abuses, effectively blocking the meeting for the second year in a row.
More from WPR: Is the U.S. Out of Options on North Korea?
The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions on a businessman and a senior government official with close links to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, accusing them of corruption.
More from WPR: Trump, Normally Cozy With Despots, Takes a Hard Line With Cambodia’s Hun Sen
Global commerce will lose its ultimate umpire Tuesday, leaving countries unable to reach a final resolution of disputes at the World Trade Organization and instead facing what critics call “the law of the jungle.’’
More from WPR: Is Trump About to Bring Down the WTO?
The White House and House Democrats are on the cusp of finalizing a new trade deal for North America, a major achievement for President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that comes even as Democrats prepare to impeach the president.
More from WPR: Will the Politics of Impeachment Cost Trump a Win on NAFTA 2.0?
December 9, 2019
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.
Saudi authorities are investigating whether a member of its air force who shot dead three people on a U.S. military base was radicalized during a trip back to the kingdom that began late last year, according to Saudi officials.
The United States has spent two years chipping away at the World Trade Organization, criticizing it as unfair, starving it of personnel and disregarding its authority, as President Trump seeks to upend the global trade system.
More from WPR: Is Trump About to Bring Down the WTO?
Africa
News
December 10, 2019
The son of Angola’s veteran ex-president faced corruption charges before the country’s supreme court in a trial which opened Monday, state news agency ANGOP said, the most high-profile case yet under the government’s anti-corruption drive.
South Africa announced the biggest rolling power blackouts in its history after more than a quarter of the generating capacity at its troubled state electricity monopoly broke down.
The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan plan to meet in Washington on Jan. 13 to try to finalize an agreement to resolve their dispute over a massive dam project on the Nile River in Ethiopia, according to a joint statement issued by the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday.
More from WPR: Amid Revolutionary Change at Home, Ethiopia Is Remaking Its Middle East Ties
Opinion
December 10, 2019Washington’s refusal to remove Khartoum from the state sponsors of terrorism list will slow Sudan’s transition to democracy and could undermine it.
More from WPR: Sudan’s Revolutionaries Confront the Challenges of Governing a Divided Nation
News
December 9, 2019
A British judge has dismissed torture charges against the ex-wife of a former Liberian president before her trial next month over accusations relating to the country’s civil war.
The Americas
News
December 10, 2019Argentina’s new Peronist leader Alberto Fernandez will assume the presidency Tuesday, a sharp gear shift from conservative Mauricio Macri as the Latin American country firefights rampant inflation, credit default fears and rising poverty.
More from WPR: Which Fernandez Will Be Left Standing in Argentina?
Chile’s Air Force said Tuesday one of its cargo planes had crashed with 38 people on board after going missing in an isolated area between South America and the Antarctic, adding that a rescue team was searching for survivors.
France and a group of Brazilian states plan to announce a partnership to preserve the Amazon rainforest, the group’s leader said Monday, bypassing Brazil’s federal government after a spat between the presidents of the two countries.
On Monday, 16 national guardsmen who shocked Venezuela and the world alike by revolting on April 30 against President Nicolas Maduro were safely out of the country, having successfully fled the Panamanian embassy in Caracas that had been their makeshift home.
More from WPR: Across Latin America, Venezuelans Reel From a Crisis That Has No End in Sight
December 9, 2019
The political movement of former President President Evo Morales says it will seek consensus candidates for its presidential ticket in the country’s new elections and will spend at least a month more consulting its bases.
More from WPR: After Morales’ Resignation, Bolivia Teeters on the Edge as Repression Rises
Residents of Dominica cast ballots for a new parliament Friday following weeks of political unrest, and early returns indicated a landslide victory for the governing Dominica Labour Party.
More from WPR: Will Opposition Protests Upend Parliamentary Elections in Dominica?
Asia-Pacific
News
December 10, 2019President Rodrigo Duterte announced Tuesday that military rule in the southern Philippines would soon end, two and a half years after he imposed it in response to a rebellion by Islamic State militants in the city of Marawi.
More from WPR: Abu Sayyaf Is Bringing More of ISIS’ Brutal Tactics to the Philippines
South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit China next week for a trilateral summit with Japan amid rising tension over stalled denuclearization talks between North Korea and the United States, Moon’s office said Tuesday.
The justice minister of Gambia appealed to the U.N.’s top court Tuesday to recognize that genocide against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority took place and to ensure it does not continue, while Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi prepared to defend the actions of her country’s military.
More from WPR: Aung San Suu Kyi Will Go to the Mat for Myanmar’s Military in The Hague
Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad, the world’s oldest prime minister, promised Tuesday to hand over power to anointed successor Anwar Ibrahim in spite of new sexual assault allegations against him.
Opinion
December 10, 2019A contentious new citizenship legislation, tabled in Parliament by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and passed by the elected Lok Sabha (or lower house of Parliament), has just upended the entire premise of India’s nationhood. It will validate what the founder of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, called the two-nation theory: the belief that Muslims and Hindus needed to be organized into separate countries.
More from WPR: Will the World Accept India’s Hindu Nationalist Turn Under Modi?
Europe
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December 10, 2019The presidents of Ukraine and Russia met face-to-face for the first time, seeking to end the war in their border region. It appeared to be a draw, rather than the Putin domination some had feared.
More from WPR: What the Impeachment Inquiry Means for the U.S. Relationship With Ukraine
A gunman killed six people Tuesday after opening fire at close range in a hospital waiting room in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava, and a man who was believed to be the responsible for the relatively rare instance of gun violence in the country killed himself hours later as the police closed in, the authorities said.
Cranking up pressure on President Emmanuel Macron, thousands of union activists marched through French cities Tuesday and airport employees and teachers joined nationwide strikes to demand that the government scrap upcoming changes to the country’s national retirement system.
Spain’s King Felipe VI has begun meeting party political leaders in the hope he can choose one that will be able to form a government following last month’s inconclusive elections.
More from WPR: Spain’s Socialists Lose Their Electoral Gamble, as the Far-Right Vox Gains
Greece has lodged objections to the United Nations over an accord between Libya and Turkey mapping out maritime boundaries as a violation of international law, the Greek government said Tuesday.
Opinion
December 10, 2019
Could the latest round of strikes spell the beginning of the end for Emmanuel Macron?
News
December 9, 2019
Sanna Marin, 34, is set to become the world’s youngest sitting prime minister when she is sworn in this week in Finland, after being elected to the position by her party late Sunday.
When new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sits down Monday for peace talks in Paris with Russian President Vladimir Putin in their first face-to-face meeting, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
More from WPR: What the Impeachment Inquiry Means for the U.S. Relationship With Ukraine
Drivers on two Paris metro lines voted Monday to extend a walkout until the end of the week as France grappled with a fifth day of strikes, a sign transport workers will keep up a fight against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to streamline pensions.
The World Anti-Doping Agency has voted unanimously to ban Russia from international sport for four years for doping offenses.
The International Monetary Fund has agreed to lend $5.5 billion to Ukraine, a move viewed as a stamp of approval for President Volodymyr Zelensky’s anticorruption and economic policies.
Middle East & North Africa
News
December 10, 2019
Qatar sent its prime minister to a Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, its highest level of representation at the annual meeting in two years and the most concrete sign yet of a possible thaw in a regional dispute.
An Algerian court jailed two former prime ministers for corruption Tuesday, two days before a presidential election which protesters want cancelled.
More from WPR: After Bouteflika’s Ouster, Algeria’s Popular Uprising Faces a Much Bigger Test
Opinion
December 10, 2019
The world is failing innocent victims of the war on terrorism.
Having struggled to win foreign backing for the $25.6 billion listing, the crown prince’s plans face further scrutiny.
More from WPR: Saudi Arabia’s Oil Industry Faces Unprecedented Risk and Uncertainty
United States
News
December 10, 2019
Late Monday, the White House confirmed an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Lavrov for Tuesday afternoon. Considerable evidence suggests any conversation with Lavrov would include the last major nuclear arms control treaty still in force between the United States and Russia: the Obama-era New START treaty, which in recent days President Vladimir Putin of Russia has said he wants to extend for another five years.
The Trump administration has refused to support a move by members of the United Nations Security Council to hold a discussion Tuesday on North Korea’s rampant human rights abuses, effectively blocking the meeting for the second year in a row.
More from WPR: Is the U.S. Out of Options on North Korea?
The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions on a businessman and a senior government official with close links to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, accusing them of corruption.
More from WPR: Trump, Normally Cozy With Despots, Takes a Hard Line With Cambodia’s Hun Sen
Global commerce will lose its ultimate umpire Tuesday, leaving countries unable to reach a final resolution of disputes at the World Trade Organization and instead facing what critics call “the law of the jungle.’’
More from WPR: Is Trump About to Bring Down the WTO?
The White House and House Democrats are on the cusp of finalizing a new trade deal for North America, a major achievement for President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that comes even as Democrats prepare to impeach the president.
More from WPR: Will the Politics of Impeachment Cost Trump a Win on NAFTA 2.0?
Opinion
December 10, 2019Washington’s refusal to remove Khartoum from the state sponsors of terrorism list will slow Sudan’s transition to democracy and could undermine it.
More from WPR: Sudan’s Revolutionaries Confront the Challenges of Governing a Divided Nation
News
December 9, 2019
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.
Saudi authorities are investigating whether a member of its air force who shot dead three people on a U.S. military base was radicalized during a trip back to the kingdom that began late last year, according to Saudi officials.
The United States has spent two years chipping away at the World Trade Organization, criticizing it as unfair, starving it of personnel and disregarding its authority, as President Trump seeks to upend the global trade system.
More from WPR: Is Trump About to Bring Down the WTO?
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected to travel to Washington next week for his first visit to the United States since his controversial Oval Office meeting with President Trump in 2017, diplomats familiar with the trip said.
The United States ambassador to Denmark barred an American NATO expert critical of President Trump from speaking at an international conference hosted by the American embassy and a Danish think tank, prompting the event’s cancellation, organizers said.
More from WPR: Why NATO No Longer Fears Trump
Iran on Saturday freed an American graduate student who had been imprisoned in Tehran for more than three years on suspicion of being a spy, in an exchange of prisoners at a moment of high tensions with Washington.
Opinion
December 9, 2019
Since Alberto Fernandez’s election, the U.S. president hadn’t antagonized the incoming leftist administration—until the announcement of new tariffs on steel and aluminum this week.
It’s time to abandon the dogma that’s driven our foreign policy and led to so much disaster in the region.
The Americas
News
December 10, 2019The White House and House Democrats are on the cusp of finalizing a new trade deal for North America, a major achievement for President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that comes even as Democrats prepare to impeach the president.
More from WPR: Will the Politics of Impeachment Cost Trump a Win on NAFTA 2.0?
Argentina’s new Peronist leader Alberto Fernandez will assume the presidency Tuesday, a sharp gear shift from conservative Mauricio Macri as the Latin American country firefights rampant inflation, credit default fears and rising poverty.
More from WPR: Which Fernandez Will Be Left Standing in Argentina?
Chile’s Air Force said Tuesday one of its cargo planes had crashed with 38 people on board after going missing in an isolated area between South America and the Antarctic, adding that a rescue team was searching for survivors.
France and a group of Brazilian states plan to announce a partnership to preserve the Amazon rainforest, the group’s leader said Monday, bypassing Brazil’s federal government after a spat between the presidents of the two countries.
On Monday, 16 national guardsmen who shocked Venezuela and the world alike by revolting on April 30 against President Nicolas Maduro were safely out of the country, having successfully fled the Panamanian embassy in Caracas that had been their makeshift home.
More from WPR: Across Latin America, Venezuelans Reel From a Crisis That Has No End in Sight
December 9, 2019
The political movement of former President President Evo Morales says it will seek consensus candidates for its presidential ticket in the country’s new elections and will spend at least a month more consulting its bases.
More from WPR: After Morales’ Resignation, Bolivia Teeters on the Edge as Repression Rises
Residents of Dominica cast ballots for a new parliament Friday following weeks of political unrest, and early returns indicated a landslide victory for the governing Dominica Labour Party.
More from WPR: Will Opposition Protests Upend Parliamentary Elections in Dominica?
Gunmen opened fire Saturday on a group of indigenous people in Brazil’s Maranhao state, killing two, according to the state’s public security secretariat.
Mexico said Friday that it has made the biggest oil discovery in the country since 1987 at the Quesqui field in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
Opinion
December 9, 2019
Since Alberto Fernandez’s election, the U.S. president hadn’t antagonized the incoming leftist administration—until the announcement of new tariffs on steel and aluminum this week.
The outgoing president left the economy in worse shape than when he took office.
More from WPR: Which Fernandez Will Be Left Standing in Argentina?
Europe
News
December 10, 2019
Late Monday, the White House confirmed an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Lavrov for Tuesday afternoon. Considerable evidence suggests any conversation with Lavrov would include the last major nuclear arms control treaty still in force between the United States and Russia: the Obama-era New START treaty, which in recent days President Vladimir Putin of Russia has said he wants to extend for another five years.
France and a group of Brazilian states plan to announce a partnership to preserve the Amazon rainforest, the group’s leader said Monday, bypassing Brazil’s federal government after a spat between the presidents of the two countries.
The presidents of Ukraine and Russia met face-to-face for the first time, seeking to end the war in their border region. It appeared to be a draw, rather than the Putin domination some had feared.
More from WPR: What the Impeachment Inquiry Means for the U.S. Relationship With Ukraine
A gunman killed six people Tuesday after opening fire at close range in a hospital waiting room in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava, and a man who was believed to be the responsible for the relatively rare instance of gun violence in the country killed himself hours later as the police closed in, the authorities said.
Cranking up pressure on President Emmanuel Macron, thousands of union activists marched through French cities Tuesday and airport employees and teachers joined nationwide strikes to demand that the government scrap upcoming changes to the country’s national retirement system.
Spain’s King Felipe VI has begun meeting party political leaders in the hope he can choose one that will be able to form a government following last month’s inconclusive elections.
More from WPR: Spain’s Socialists Lose Their Electoral Gamble, as the Far-Right Vox Gains
Greece has lodged objections to the United Nations over an accord between Libya and Turkey mapping out maritime boundaries as a violation of international law, the Greek government said Tuesday.
Opinion
December 10, 2019
Could the latest round of strikes spell the beginning of the end for Emmanuel Macron?
News
December 9, 2019
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected to travel to Washington next week for his first visit to the United States since his controversial Oval Office meeting with President Trump in 2017, diplomats familiar with the trip said.
The United States ambassador to Denmark barred an American NATO expert critical of President Trump from speaking at an international conference hosted by the American embassy and a Danish think tank, prompting the event’s cancellation, organizers said.
More from WPR: Why NATO No Longer Fears Trump
Sanna Marin, 34, is set to become the world’s youngest sitting prime minister when she is sworn in this week in Finland, after being elected to the position by her party late Sunday.
When new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sits down Monday for peace talks in Paris with Russian President Vladimir Putin in their first face-to-face meeting, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
More from WPR: What the Impeachment Inquiry Means for the U.S. Relationship With Ukraine
Drivers on two Paris metro lines voted Monday to extend a walkout until the end of the week as France grappled with a fifth day of strikes, a sign transport workers will keep up a fight against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to streamline pensions.
The World Anti-Doping Agency has voted unanimously to ban Russia from international sport for four years for doping offenses.
The International Monetary Fund has agreed to lend $5.5 billion to Ukraine, a move viewed as a stamp of approval for President Volodymyr Zelensky’s anticorruption and economic policies.
A British judge has dismissed torture charges against the ex-wife of a former Liberian president before her trial next month over accusations relating to the country’s civil war.
Russian forces have entered Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the Islamic State caliphate, in one of the starkest examples yet of how Moscow has filled the vacuum created by President Donald Trump’s decision to pull U.S. forces from northern Syria.
More from WPR: Trump’s Syria Debacle Unnerves Allies, Comforts Enemies and Squanders U.S. Power
Opinion
December 9, 2019Moscow never wanted an annexation—it just wanted a bargaining chip. Understanding that is the key to settling the conflict once and for all.
Africa
News
December 10, 2019
The son of Angola’s veteran ex-president faced corruption charges before the country’s supreme court in a trial which opened Monday, state news agency ANGOP said, the most high-profile case yet under the government’s anti-corruption drive.
South Africa announced the biggest rolling power blackouts in its history after more than a quarter of the generating capacity at its troubled state electricity monopoly broke down.
The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan plan to meet in Washington on Jan. 13 to try to finalize an agreement to resolve their dispute over a massive dam project on the Nile River in Ethiopia, according to a joint statement issued by the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday.
More from WPR: Amid Revolutionary Change at Home, Ethiopia Is Remaking Its Middle East Ties
Opinion
December 10, 2019Washington’s refusal to remove Khartoum from the state sponsors of terrorism list will slow Sudan’s transition to democracy and could undermine it.
More from WPR: Sudan’s Revolutionaries Confront the Challenges of Governing a Divided Nation
News
December 9, 2019
A British judge has dismissed torture charges against the ex-wife of a former Liberian president before her trial next month over accusations relating to the country’s civil war.
At least 10 people, including several police officers, have been killed when gunmen attacked a bus in northeast Kenya.
Sudan is weeks away from reaching a settlement with families of those killed in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, one of the last steps in getting the African country removed from the U.S. list of state sponsorsof terrorism, new Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said in an interview.
More from WPR: Sudan’s Revolutionaries Confront the Challenges of Governing a Divided Nation
Sudan’s prime minister said Sunday Khartoum had reduced the number of troops it has in Yemen from a peak of 15,000 to 5,000, confirming a drawdown in a conflict which he said could not be solved militarily.
Opinion
December 9, 2019Ethiopia’s challenges are much like those I faced when I became president of Liberia.
More from WPR: Ethnic Violence in Ethiopia Is Putting Abiy’s Nationalist Vision to the Test
Middle East & North Africa
News
December 10, 2019
Greece has lodged objections to the United Nations over an accord between Libya and Turkey mapping out maritime boundaries as a violation of international law, the Greek government said Tuesday.
The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan plan to meet in Washington on Jan. 13 to try to finalize an agreement to resolve their dispute over a massive dam project on the Nile River in Ethiopia, according to a joint statement issued by the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday.
More from WPR: Amid Revolutionary Change at Home, Ethiopia Is Remaking Its Middle East Ties
Qatar sent its prime minister to a Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, its highest level of representation at the annual meeting in two years and the most concrete sign yet of a possible thaw in a regional dispute.
An Algerian court jailed two former prime ministers for corruption Tuesday, two days before a presidential election which protesters want cancelled.
More from WPR: After Bouteflika’s Ouster, Algeria’s Popular Uprising Faces a Much Bigger Test
Opinion
December 10, 2019
The world is failing innocent victims of the war on terrorism.
Having struggled to win foreign backing for the $25.6 billion listing, the crown prince’s plans face further scrutiny.
More from WPR: Saudi Arabia’s Oil Industry Faces Unprecedented Risk and Uncertainty
News
December 9, 2019
Saudi authorities are investigating whether a member of its air force who shot dead three people on a U.S. military base was radicalized during a trip back to the kingdom that began late last year, according to Saudi officials.
Sudan’s prime minister said Sunday Khartoum had reduced the number of troops it has in Yemen from a peak of 15,000 to 5,000, confirming a drawdown in a conflict which he said could not be solved militarily.
Unknown assailants killed a dozen unarmed anti-government protesters in the Iraqi capital in an attack the president blamed on criminal gangs, and an unmanned drone bombed the home of a prominent Shiite cleric who has been a major supporter of the protest movement.
More from WPR: Defying Repression, Protesters Seek to Change Iraq’s Post-Saddam Political Order
Lebanon’s leading Sunni Muslim politician, Saad Hariri, re-emerged as a candidate for prime minister Sunday when the businessman Samir Khatib withdrew his candidacy to lead the government.
More from WPR: Lebanon’s Protests Are a Popular Outcry Cutting Across Sectarian Lines
Four rockets struck an army base near Baghdad International Airport on Monday, wounding at least six Iraqi personnel in the latest attack on military installations hosting U.S. forces.
Russian forces have entered Raqqa, the former de facto capital of the Islamic State caliphate, in one of the starkest examples yet of how Moscow has filled the vacuum created by President Donald Trump’s decision to pull U.S. forces from northern Syria.
More from WPR: Trump’s Syria Debacle Unnerves Allies, Comforts Enemies and Squanders U.S. Power
Iran on Saturday freed an American graduate student who had been imprisoned in Tehran for more than three years on suspicion of being a spy, in an exchange of prisoners at a moment of high tensions with Washington.
Opinion
December 9, 2019
It’s time to abandon the dogma that’s driven our foreign policy and led to so much disaster in the region.
Asia-Pacific
News
December 10, 2019The Trump administration has refused to support a move by members of the United Nations Security Council to hold a discussion Tuesday on North Korea’s rampant human rights abuses, effectively blocking the meeting for the second year in a row.
More from WPR: Is the U.S. Out of Options on North Korea?
The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions on a businessman and a senior government official with close links to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, accusing them of corruption.
More from WPR: Trump, Normally Cozy With Despots, Takes a Hard Line With Cambodia’s Hun Sen
President Rodrigo Duterte announced Tuesday that military rule in the southern Philippines would soon end, two and a half years after he imposed it in response to a rebellion by Islamic State militants in the city of Marawi.
More from WPR: Abu Sayyaf Is Bringing More of ISIS’ Brutal Tactics to the Philippines
South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit China next week for a trilateral summit with Japan amid rising tension over stalled denuclearization talks between North Korea and the United States, Moon’s office said Tuesday.
The justice minister of Gambia appealed to the U.N.’s top court Tuesday to recognize that genocide against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority took place and to ensure it does not continue, while Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi prepared to defend the actions of her country’s military.
More from WPR: Aung San Suu Kyi Will Go to the Mat for Myanmar’s Military in The Hague
Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad, the world’s oldest prime minister, promised Tuesday to hand over power to anointed successor Anwar Ibrahim in spite of new sexual assault allegations against him.
Opinion
December 10, 2019A contentious new citizenship legislation, tabled in Parliament by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and passed by the elected Lok Sabha (or lower house of Parliament), has just upended the entire premise of India’s nationhood. It will validate what the founder of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, called the two-nation theory: the belief that Muslims and Hindus needed to be organized into separate countries.
More from WPR: Will the World Accept India’s Hindu Nationalist Turn Under Modi?
News
December 9, 2019
U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.
India took a major step toward the official marginalization of Muslims on Monday, as Parliament opened debate on a bill that would establish a religious test for migrants’ eligibility to become citizens, solidifying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist agenda.
More from WPR: Will the World Accept India’s Hindu Nationalist Turn Under Modi?
A day after North Korea said it had performed a “very important test” at its long-range rocket launch site, there is wide speculation that it involved a new engine for either a space launch vehicle or a long-range missile.
More from WPR: Is the U.S. Out of Options on North Korea?
Aung San Suu Kyi spent the best part of two decades under house arrest when a military junta ruled Myanmar. This week in The Hague, the Nobel laureate and former democracy campaigner will defend some of the same generals and her country against allegations of genocide.
More from WPR: Aung San Suu Kyi Will Go to the Mat for Myanmar’s Military in The Hague
An alleged rape victim in northern India who was set on fire while heading to a court hearing in the case has died in a New Delhi hospital, officials said Saturday.
More from WPR: How India Fails Its Rape Survivors
Hundreds of thousands of protesters, basking in a recent election victory by Hong Kong’s pro-democracy camp, poured onto the city’s streets Sunday in one of the largest marches in weeks to pressure the government to meet demands for greater civil liberties.
More from WPR: Why the Pro-Democracy Landslide in Hong Kong’s Elections Blindsided Beijing
Opinion
December 9, 2019After six months of unrest, anti-Beijing protesters are increasingly unwilling to compromise.