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NEW DELHI—Social media posts by a Pakistan distributor for Hyundai Motor Co. have triggered calls to boycott the company and prompted India’s government to summon South Korea’s ambassador to express its displeasure.The episode highlights the potential pitfalls for multinational corporations in navigating the political sensitivities between India and Pakistan. ...

TAIPEI—China will play host to leaders from roughly two dozen countries at the Winter Olympics, highlighting a growing divide between Western democracies and those interested in showing solidarity with a power that is seeking to challenge the U.S.-led global order.While the U.S. and a handful of Western democracies have ...

On Sunday night, in their third attack in as many weeks, Houthi radicals in Yemen unleashed a new barrage of ballistic and cruise missiles and weaponized drones against civilian sites across the United Arab Emirates. U.A.E. and U.S. air defenses knocked most from the sky. Some got through earlier ...

MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan—Palwasha didn’t get enough time to pick the names for her twins.Her son died immediately after birth. Her daughter, born premature and weighing 700 grams, equivalent to 1½ pounds, was put into an incubator at the provincial hospital in Maidan Shahr. Breathing seemed to take all her ...

The Pentagon announced on Monday that it was placing 8,500 U.S. troops on heightened alert, including troops that could deploy as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Response Force. Largely led and manned by Europeans, this force was built for the kind of crisis that Russia is fomenting ...

Germany is blocking North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally Estonia from giving military support to Ukraine by refusing to issue permits for German-origin weapons to be exported to Kyiv as it braces for a potential Russian invasion.Unlike the U.S., Britain, Poland and other allies, the German government has declined to ...

KAMPALA, Uganda—For two years, lockdowns and other efforts to stem the coronavirus pandemic have disrupted vaccinations against measles and other highly infectious childhood diseases in developing countries.Now, as underfunded healthcare systems shift to immunizing adults against Covid-19, 2022 risks seeing further setbacks in the fight against some of the ...

President Biden meets virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the White House, Nov. 15, 2021. Photo: Susan Walsh/Associated Press Last week Russian troops fanned out across Kazakhstan; the Myanmar junta sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison; and China transferred a senior official from ...

HONG KONG—Hong Kong is banning passenger flights from eight countries, including the U.S., for two weeks, closing bars and banning evening dine-in after the city’s first community Omicron infections punctured one of the world’s strictest and most effective border controls. Chief Executive Carrie Lam unveiled some of the toughest ...

The U.S. lost its 20-year campaign to transform Afghanistan. Many contractors won big.Those who benefited from the outpouring of government money range from major weapons manufacturers to entrepreneurs. A California businessman running a bar in Kyrgyzstan started a fuel business that brought in billions in revenue. A young Afghan ...