The story of one man’s encounter with fate.

The militarization of local politics in South Africa.

The invention of offshore banking.

Polarization. Conspiracy theories. Attacks on the free press. An obsession with loyalty. Recent events in the United States follow a pattern Europeans know all too well.

Immigrants from Africa and the iron gateways of mass deportation.

Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry—infiltrating the national oil company, selling stolen fuel on the black market and engaging in open war with the military.

Is Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions existential threat, a last resort, or both?

The hit on Sergei Skripal.

Nothing can match Cuban post-season baseball fever.

The women who flee North Korea and what they find.

Last week, as America’s top national security experts convened in Aspen, a strangely inquisitive Uber driver showed up, too.

President Trump hailed him as a catalyst of the summit with Kim Jong-Un. But what happened to Warmbier—the American college student who was sent home brain-damaged from North Korea—is even more shocking than anyone knew.

JD.com is expanding its consumer base with drone delivery and local recruits who can exploit villages’ tight-knit social networks to drum up business.

Hua Qu is fighting to save her husband — one of at least seven U.S. captives in the Islamic Republic being used as pawns in a nearly 40-year secret history of hostage taking.

The author travels to Mexico to meet a retired assassin and kidnapper, now himself a target of the cartels that once employed him.

Rojava becomes the Spanish Civil War of modern times for a ragtag group of leftists revolutionaries.

After the blockbuster success of Kong: Skull Island, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts fled Hollywood to live the expat dream life in Vietnam. Then, one night at a Saigon club, he was brutally beaten by a mysterious mob of gangsters. Who were these monsters? Soon, he began directing something entirely different—an international hunt for the men who nearly killed him.

A controversial billion-dollar citizenship-for-sale business led the elections firm to conduct clandestine campaigns across the Caribbean, insiders say.

How the children of African immigrants came to control the destiny of teams in France and Belgium and what it says about European identity.

A PR company that worked with dictators and oligarchs deliberately inflamed racial tensions in South Africa—and destroyed itself in the process.

How the relationship between Canada and America broke.

A 60,000-word investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire.

Every month, thousands of deportees from the United States and hundreds of asylum-seekers from around the world arrive in Tijuana. Many never leave.

Mark Karpelès ran the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world until a heist made it insolvent, ultimately landing him in solitary confinement in Japanese prison.

A dispatch from Cape Town, where surprising things can happen when it feels like the world is about to end.