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To Get Back Arrested Executive, China Uses a Hardball Tactic: Seizing Foreigners

In a rapid-fire climax to a 1,030-day standoff, China prepared to welcome home a company executive whose arrest in Canada…

Wole Soyinka Is Not Going Anywhere

ABEOKUTA, Nigeria — Wole Soyinka the firebrand activist is always getting Wole Soyinka the writer into trouble. Like the time…

Whales So Close You Can Touch Them: A Family Adventure in Canada

The trail to our yurt was narrow, muddy and peppered with tiny ceramic and plasticgnomes, fairies and bears. My 8-year-old…

Affluent, Anxious and Almost Normal: A Journey Through Merkel’s Germany

As Germany heads into an election that will see Angela Merkel step down after 16 years as chancellor, she leaves…

U.K.’s Migrant Boat Dispute Has Eyes Fixed on the Channel

FOLKESTONE, England — Using high-powered binoculars and a telescope, three volunteers from a humanitarian monitoring group stood on the Kent…

Who are the Canadians detained after Ms. Meng’s arrest?

For more than 1,000 days, two Canadian men held in China have been in separate prisons. They have been accused…

China frees 2 jailed Canadians after U.S. agrees to release Huawei executive.

Two Canadians imprisoned in China since 2018 were free and on their way home, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada…

Canadians weigh in on the Meng deal: ‘What about the two Michaels?’

While Meng Wanzhou contemplates flying to freedom to her home country, China, many Canadians on Friday lashed out at the…

U.S. Reaches Agreement to Release Huawei Executive in Case That Strained Ties With China

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department reached an agreement on Friday clearing the way for a senior executive of Huawei Technologies,…

Rebuking Biden, Iran’s Chief Diplomat Demands More Sanctions Relief

Accusing President Biden of continuing “the thick file of the Trump sanctions against Iran,’’ the new, hard-line Iranian foreign minister…

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