Dispatch

As the coronavirus death toll mounts, interrupted mourning rituals leave families unmoored.

Allegation of wrongdoing reopens war wound that has marred relations between Seoul and Tokyo.

American troops helped keep a lid on the Islamic State in Iraq. The Suleimani killing changed all that.

With new Taliban prisoner releases, the Afghan government hints at progress with peace talks.

The U.K. prime minister’s refusal to fire Brexit guru Dominic Cummings has provoked nationwide outrage.

Within weeks of a mass shooting, the Canadian government passed a ban on assault-style weapons despite widespread firearms ownership and vocal gun rights groups.

A country with a proud history of trade and commerce is starting to crumble into permanent poverty.

Foreign visitors have helped prop up the faltering Italian economy. If they don’t come back, the country is in trouble.

State leaders are showing up the president in their pandemic response, giving López Obrador’s critics their loudest opportunity yet to oppose his policies.

Palestinians withdraw from peace deals, and Jordan could be next, as Israel edges closer to appropriating land outright.

When the coronavirus arrived, aboriginal communities sprang into action long before the government. But in light of a neglected health system, can their tenuous successes be maintained?

Public health is a convenient pretext for extending authoritarian controls.

As the lockdown begins to ease up, coronavirus patients in ICUs across the country are just waking up—and beginning a long road to recovery.

Kabul blames the Taliban for the killing of mothers and newborn babies but questions about the culprits remain.

The country has taken a unified, middle-of-the-road approach to the coronavirus, rooted in respect for science. It’s working.

A new spurt of cases after the lifting of social distancing restrictions exposes an undercurrent of hate.

After a new spurt of coronavirus cases in Seoul and with a second wave deemed “inevitable,” South Korea is bracing itself for a new normal.

The Iraqi government is finally starting to make progress in its attempt to curb the influence of Kataib Hezbollah.

As the pandemic threatens livelihoods, the country’s poor are relying almost exclusively on the charity of fellow citizens.

Here in Spain, even easing measures leaves them stricter than in most of the United States.

The government expects citizens to freely follow its advice—but not all ethnic groups have equal access to expertise.

The country’s public hospital capacity is already strained, and Jair Bolsonaro’s reckless policies will hit the poor the hardest.

The pandemic has hit the war-ravaged country at the worst possible time—just as peace appeared possible and as foreign military aid disappears.

The continent’s borders are closed, as extreme nationalists always wanted—but they’re one of the pandemic's victims anyway.

The remote mountain country has only five confirmed coronavirus cases.

For Indian Muslims forced from their homes by mob violence, not even displaced persons camps can protect them now.

Germans used to be happy they were far away from China, but as COVID-19 ravages Europe, they no longer feel safely removed.  

The Scandinavian country believes its distinctive high-trust culture will protect it from needing to shut down for the pandemic.

China’s poor rural neighbor says it has no cases. That’s unlikely to be true.

Duterte announced unprecedented measures, but nobody knows what they mean.

Japanese women quickly realized that the disaster that struck their country nine years ago was an unprecedented opportunity to overcome discrimination.

Squabbling leaders, publicity-seeking scientists, and late containment efforts show that authoritarian regimes aren’t the only ones mismanaging public health crises.

Ayurvedic medicine and other pseudosciences are being pushed by BJP politicians.

The two sides smiled for the cameras at their historic ceremony in Doha, but they couldn’t hide why they've been enemies for decades.