The Meaning of Kim Jong Un's Rebuttal to Trump
The Trump administration has been sleepwalking through a dream. It’s time to wake up.
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Toby Melville / Reuters London's Uber Beef Has Deep Cultural Roots
The ride-sharing app has clashed with traditional taxis before—but this is different.
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Jeff J Mitchell / Reuteres Theresa May's Case for a Two-Year Transition Period After Brexit
The proposal could extend negotiations until 2021.
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Toby Melville / Reuters Photos of the Week: 9/16–9/22
Record-setting hurricanes, massive protests, a devastating earthquake, and an epic refugee crisis.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters Is It Unethical To Pose as an Alt-Righter?
A 25-year-old graduate student went undercover, yielding captivating footage of extremists—and a moral dilemma.
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Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters Ukrainian Freedom Fighting and Cambodian Democracy: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
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Hector Retamal / AFP / Getty Photos of Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria
On Wednesday, Hurricane Maria crashed across the entire U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, making landfall with winds approaching 150 mph (240 kph).
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KCNA / Reuters Why Would North Korea Want to Drop a Hydrogen Bomb in the Ocean?
Escalating tensions between the country and the United States lead toward the threat of a "Juche bird" test in the Pacific.
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Axel Schmidt / Reuters Germany's Far-Right Populists Have an Infighting Problem
What happens when the AfD gets to the Bundestag?
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Darren Ornitz / Reuters Turkey's Contempt for Peaceful Protest—Even in the U.S.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail once again appeared to assault demonstrators.
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters Southeast Asia's Rohingya Refugee Crisis Reaches a Terrible Peak
The United Nations Refugee Agency now reports that more than 420,000 people have fled the violence in Burma since August 24.
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Mathieu Cugnot / AP Will the Splintering of France's National Front Help or Harm It?
Marine Le Pen’s right-hand man has quit the party, a move that will impact its efforts to rebrand.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Turns the Screws on North Korea
What will new U.S. sanctions achieve?
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Mark Crisanto / Reuters Does Aung San Suu Kyi Still Deserve a Nobel Prize?
As she presides over the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, the Burmese leader stands to lose her status as secular saint.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters Why Business-Friendly Reforms Are Sparking Street Protests in France
The country’s sacrosanct labor code has been fiercely guarded by unions—but the president has his own ideas.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How the Rest of the World Heard Trump's UN Speech
Even Iran, with its abysmal human-rights record, feels comfortable criticizing the U.S.
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Seth Wenig / AP Trump's Indecisive, Ill-Prepared Debut at the United Nations
The meaning of Trump’s fire and fury foreign policy.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Donald Trump's Other Wall
The Trump administration is expected to announce a stricter cap on the number of refugees who can enter the U.S. next year.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters France's President Defies Trump at the UN
“If the world’s major powers can’t agree on what the UN is for, what does that mean for its future?”
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters A Presidential Misunderstanding of Deterrence
Trump’s bellicosity undermines his ability to deter the Kim regime’s nuclear weapons and missiles programs.
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Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters The Cyber Threat To Germany's Elections Is Very Real
Authorities say they’re ready for the worst, but recent attacks suggest otherwise.
