HONG KONG—One of China’s biggest online influencers stepped on a political land mine while promoting an ice-cream product on Friday. In the process, he set off a wave of curiosity…

PARIS—French lawmakers grilled the nation’s top law-enforcement official about police treatment of soccer fans outside Saturday’s Champions League final near Paris, raising the episode’s political stakes less than two weeks…

HONG KONG—Using an umbrella as his cane, 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen walked into a courtroom Wednesday to sit in on a pretrial hearing for activists facing national-security charges. A thorn…

Soaring food prices are triggering shortages and protests across the developing world as disruption from the Ukraine war adds to existing strains on global supplies of grains, meat and other…

Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s biggest iPhone assembler, said it faces logistics disruptions and other challenges in China stemming from the country’s stringent Covid-19 control measures. Most of Foxconn’s factories…

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HONG KONG—National security police arrested Hong Kong’s outspoken retired Cardinal Joseph Zen Wednesday as part of a probe into a relief fund for people involved in prodemocracy protests, a move…

Discontent has been widespread on Chinese social media ever since Shanghai started a rigid lockdown in late March. Now, it is moving into the real world. Sharply falling case numbers…

TEL AVIV—Israeli police clashed with Palestinians at Jerusalem’s most contested site as large crowds of Muslims gathered for Friday prayers, ending a week of relative calm. The renewed skirmishing at…

GAZA CITY—Israeli police blocked Jewish nationalists from marching to potential flashpoints in Jerusalem, after the protesters called for a show of sovereignty over the contested city Wednesday evening following days…