Simon Denyer

There are some indications that the incubation period for the coronavirus could be longer than 14 days, with patients testing positive after much longer quarantine periods, researchers said. The rush to understand the virus came as infections rose in…

A Japanese comic book telling the powerful and tragic tale of a 29-year-old Uighur woman from China has become a surprise viral hit. "What has happened to me — A testimony of a Uyghur woman" recounts the story told by Mihrigul Tursun, a member of the…

This video is currently not available Around the globe, right-wing leaders reacted to the victory of President-elect Donald Trump with joy, while other expats and politicians expressed dismay. (Video: Jenny Starrs/Photo: Ricky Carioti/The Washington…

BEIJING — China kicked off trials for a group of lawyers and human rights activists Tuesday, accusing them of being part of a broad Western campaign to overthrow the one-party state by fomenting a “color revolution.” Accusations of foreign-backed…

BEIJING — Stock market jitters spread throughout Asia and the rest of the world, and Wall Street sustained a major plunge, after Chinese stocks recorded their biggest slump in eight years during what China’s state media dubbed “Black Monday.” The…

BEIJING — As if “nut rage” weren’t bad enough, Asia got another dose of air rage this week when Chinese tourists went berserk on a flight to Thailand, scalding a flight attendant with noodles and hot water and then threatening to bomb the plane,…

The sudden disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 somewhere over the South China Sea has been called an “unprecedented missing airline mystery" by Malaysian authorities. Right now, it's hard to disagree with that description. With very few…

More than 4,500 years since the paint was first applied, the reds, yellows and blues still stand out on the walls of the tomb of Queen Meresankh III. A hunter throws a net to catch water birds, craftsmen make papyrus mats while a stream of people…

CAIRO — The prime mover behind Egypt’s crackdown on U.S.-funded pro-democracy organizations — and one of the highest-ranking survivors of the Hosni Mubarak era — said Thursday that she would not serve in the country’s new cabinet, expected to be…

CAIRO — Egypt’s president appointed a new prime minister on Tuesday, asking Hesham Kandil — a U.S.-educated technocrat currently serving as water and irrigation minister — to form a new government. It took President Mohamed Morsi more than three…

MAHALLA EL-KUBRA, Egypt — Four years ago, protests in this Egyptian cotton mill city sowed the seeds of the revolution that ultimately toppled President Hosni Mubarak. Today Mahalla is again seething, as a strike by tens of thousands of textile…

CAIRO — Former Egyptian spy chief Omar Suleiman, a trusted adviser of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and a key CIA partner in the Middle East, died Thursday at a hospital in Cleveland, the Egyptian government said. He was 76. The state-run Middle…

TRIPOLI, Libya — Looted, ransacked and burned, the U.S. Embassy complex in Tripoli stands in ruins, a testament to the violence unleashed in the name of Moammar Gaddafi’s regime and its disregard of international law. Throughout the embassy compound,…

TRIPOLI, Libya — It is a classic good cop, bad cop routine. Libya is simultaneously trying to play the role of tough guy and victim in its dealings with the outside world, as it unleashes venom and shellfire on its opponents but pleads for a…

TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan government renewed its artillery and rocket attack on the port of Misurata on Tuesday in its latest apparent attempt to cut the lifeline of the besieged rebel-held western city. The fresh assault on the Mediterranean port…

TRIPOLI, Libya — Moammar Gaddafi’s government accused NATO on Monday of trying to assassinate him after coalition forces fired at least two large guided missiles at a sprawling complex in the capital where the Libyan leader lives, destroying offices…

TRIPOLI, Libya — Forced on the defensive on the battlefield, Libya’s rebels are also struggling in the economic war of attrition with Moammar Gaddafi, despite the backing of the West. Global efforts to isolate Gaddafi and cut off his economic…