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The ICC Suspends Karim Khan, and 125 Governments Will Decide What Follows

THE HAGUE, June 10 -- At the center of the case that has now toppled the world's most prominent prosecutor is a woman who worked beside him. A United Nations investigation found evidence that Karim Kh... Read More


Xi Goes to Pyongyang and Quietly Takes North Korea Back From Moscow

PYONGYANG, June 10 -- The most consequential sentence spoken in Asia this week did not come from Washington, which was busy with its war in the Gulf and its quarrels at home. It came from Kim Jong Un,... Read More


India theatre commands plan advances as two-front war fear hardens into doctrine

New Delhi, June 10 -- India's generals have concluded they will not get to fight one war at a time. That assumption is now written into the most consequential file on Rajnath Singh's desk: a plan to d... Read More


Graham Survives His Primary, but the Iran War Nearly Cost Him a Runoff

COLUMBIA, June 10 -- The most telling number from Tuesday night in South Carolina is not the one Lindsey Graham won with. It is what the winning cost. A four-term senator in one of the most Republican... Read More


Modi declared longest-serving elected PM by one day, and one asterisk

NEW DELHI, June 10 -- The margin is one day. By the count India's state broadcaster published on Wednesday morning, Narendra Modi has now served 4,399 continuous days as prime minister, while Jawaharl... Read More


Maine Democrats Pick Platner, Scandals and All, for the Fight Against Collins

AUGUSTA, June 10 -- By the time Maine Democrats walked into their polling places on Tuesday, there was nothing left to learn about Graham Platner. The tattoo that allegedly resembled a Nazi symbol had... Read More


India fertility rate falls to 1.9 and sharpens the delimitation fight

NEW DELHI, June 10 -- India did what it was asked. For half a century, through sterilisation drives, slogans painted on village walls and quiet visits from health workers, the state told its people to... Read More


Trump Hands US Intelligence to Bill Pulte as Spy Law Heads for a Lapse

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The American surveillance state has survived every fight Congress has picked with it for half a century. What it may not survive is one man's loyalty to another. By Friday night... Read More


Trump Will Deploy Full US Military Force If Iran Misses Its Chance for a Deal, NATO Envoy Warns

Matthew Whitaker, June 10 -- The man delivering Washington's latest ultimatum to Tehran on Wednesday was not the secretary of state, not the secretary of defense. It was the United States ambassador t... Read More


Canada Opens the Gordie Howe Bridge to Detroit, Defying Trump's Threats

WINDSOR, June 10 -- The bridge was supposed to be a story about concrete and traffic. Instead it became a test of whether an American president could stop a Canadian project he did not pay for and doe... Read More