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The first bombing targeting the Shiite Hazara community since the Taliban takeover of the country brings calls for better security.

Stanley Lai is one of about 700 journalists and editorial staff who lost their jobs after three major news organizations shuttered in the past 10 months.

The announcement, coming right before a U.S. envoy was to visit, has stirred fears among local opposition leaders and U.S. allies that the deal could lead to a Chinese military presence in the islands.

The country has been shaken by escalating confrontations between Hindus and Muslims.

A new report found that only six of 29 countries spanning from Central Europe to Central Asia managed to maintain a “consolidated” democracy, while most others drifted toward authoritarianism or a bleak “gray zone” where the trappings of democracy truss up illiberal or autocratic political project.

Twin blasts in the heart of the Shiite Hazara community struck students as they were leaving class in the morning.

When reports surface of frustrated officials or workers wanting to resign over the stress of enforcing lockdown policies, state media tracks them down and has them recant their stories.

Russia was once dismissed as a “regional power" with limited influence and capacity. Now, the White House sees it alongside China as a primary adversary.

Sri Lanka was already struggling with its worst economic downturn in decades. Now the conflict in Ukraine has sent food and fuel prices soaring.

For more than three weeks, China’s most populous city, Shanghai, has been under strict lockdown orders in an effort to control a coronavirus outbreak, leaving its 25 million residents trapped at home, struggling to feed themselves or get medical help for sick family members.

For nearby countries, the war is a crisis of security and politics. But countries much further afield have been impacted, too.

The Washington Post interviewed the president-elect, who wants to take South Korea in a more assertive direction, recalibrating its foreign policy from a fixation on North Korea.

South Korea’s new president takes office on May 10. In his first interview as president-elect of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol spoke with The Washington Post on a range of policy matters, and shared his goals on advancing his country’s foreign policy. This is a transcript of the interview.

Officials say they are receiving reports of a rise in child marriages and sales of babies for adoptions as Afghans seek ways to cope with the economic crisis.

Traveling back to China under strict covid restrictions as a journalist shows the limitations of a country still holding on to a zero-covid policy, which has locked down its financial center Shanghai.

A rare outbreak of Japanese encephalitis has infected 34 people and killed three.

Just days after being ousted in a no confidence vote, former prime minister Imran Khan was already laying the groundwork for a political comeback, launching a national street campaign calling on the new government to hold elections.

The extraordinary step underscores the crisis facing a government that is struggling to contain soaring inflation, large-scale protests and a potentially looming humanitarian disaster.