“Black Box Diaries,” a documentary about Shiori Ito’s fight against Japan’s patriarchal justice system, opens on Friday in the United States.

Plus, an interview with the Taliban’s most fearsome leader.

In Kurram, near the Afghan border, Pakistan has been helpless to stop the latest outbreaks of a sectarian conflict that goes back decades.

Climate change, civil conflict and growing resistance to insecticides and treatments are all contributing to an alarming spread of cases.

Ms. Letby is serving 15 life sentences after the deaths and collapses of babies in the neonatal unit where she worked.

Iran’s national air defense force said that Israel had attacked military bases in three provinces, including Tehran, causing “limited damage.”

Xi Jinping’s top adviser, Wang Huning, is credited with shaping the authoritarianism that steered China’s rise. But can he influence Taiwan?

The founder of the English Defence League, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is at the forefront of a growing movement that was behind anti-immigrant riots this summer.

Footage was filmed in the Russian Far East, which the United States says is hosting thousands of North Korean soldiers.

The Italian authorities carried out a drill of their plan to save a half-million people from toxic fumes, deadly quakes or a full eruption. Vesuvius isn’t the volcano they’re worried about.