BUSINESS

Vietnam just abandoned its policy limiting families to two children. China now says, “Three is best.” The Russian government is targeting child-free lifestyles. And the White House is mulling baby bonuses. Many countries are trying to reverse record low birthrates, but a new report from the United Nations Population Fund contends that governments are operating … Read more

The tiny nation of Suriname, on South America’s Atlantic coast, has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. A majority of those deaths involve a single substance: paraquat, a pesticide widely used for weed control that is lethal to humans in amounts as small as one swallow. Pesticides are among the leading means … Read more

Jorge Tejada was examining the charred remains of a bus in the parking lot near his recycling business in Lima. It had been set on fire overnight in what residents said was retaliation from a gang shaking down local bus companies. Mr. Tejada, 50, has lost count of how many attacks like this have struck … Read more

Five Western countries announced on Tuesday that they would impose sanctions on two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, a remarkable rebuke of Israel’s leadership and a significant escalation of Western pressure on Israel over settler violence in the West Bank and the conduct of the war in Gaza. Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Norway jointly … Read more

President Trump’s immigration crackdown reached influencer level last week when Khaby Lame, the world’s most-followed person on TikTok, was detained by U.S. immigration agents in Las Vegas and then left the United States. Mr. Lame, an Italian-Senegalese man who has over 160 million followers, was detained on Friday at Harry Reid International Airport, U.S. Immigration … Read more

Images from Los Angeles this week of demonstrators throwing rocks and police officers spraying tear gas mirror scenes of other recent confrontations between protesters and the authorities from around the world. Los Angeles has been convulsed by public outrage since the Trump administration launched a series of immigration raids on Friday. In response to the … Read more

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s former president and one of the country’s most polarizing political figures, was sentenced to prison on Tuesday and barred for life from public office after the Supreme Court upheld her corruption conviction. The ruling is likely to deepen political tensions in the country and comes after Mrs. Kirchner, who was … Read more

A federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration did not have to comply for now with a judge’s order to give due process to scores of Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador under a wartime law. The ruling, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, came … Read more