By MARC SANTORA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2xXvKwA
via IFTTT Over 90 percent of ballots cast were in favor of the name change. But more than half of eligible voters stayed home from the polls.

By MOTOKO RICH from NYT World https://ift.tt/2QfyA7U
via IFTTT Denny Tamaki’s victory is a setback to plans to transfer a busy Marine air base to a less-populated coastal area on the island.

By JANE PERLEZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/2NdIXHd
via IFTTT The decision to withdraw from an important annual meeting shows how tensions over an escalating trade war are spreading to other arenas.

By DIONNE SEARCEY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2xZBmXj
via IFTTT Baobabs have endured for centuries as essential cultural symbols. But increasingly, they are threatened by climate change, urbanization and a growing population.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2NRml4M
via IFTTT Catalan separatists clashed with police in Barcelona as tensions heighten ahead of the anniversary of the region’s referendum on secession.

By HENRY FOUNTAIN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2y5IFgm
via IFTTT Catastrophic tsunamis often result from earthquakes that move vertically along a fault. The quake that struck last Friday was a different kind, moving mostly horizontally.

By ELLEN BARRY and STEPHEN CASTLE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OkESG0
via IFTTT In myriad ways, the country is in the same position it was on the morning after the 2016 referendum: without a clear plan.

By BENJAMIN MUELLER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2IpRB4S
via IFTTT Proposals for hundreds of public phones plastered with ads have set off a battle over Britain’s public space.

By NORIMITSU ONISHI and SELAM GEBREKIDAN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OoaNW3
via IFTTT About 90 politicians have been killed in South Africa since 2016. And in most cases, African National Congress officials are killing one another.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2xO1uFa
via IFTTT The confirmed death toll has passed 800, officials said, but that is expected to rise significantly as rescuers scramble to reach the worst-hit areas.

By RICHARD C. PADDOCK from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Ra7pwo
via IFTTT Myanmar’s civilian leader, once a democracy icon, has become known as an enabler for the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims and a foe of the free press.

By MEGAN SPECIA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2R51KI9
via IFTTT At the United Nations, North Korea’s foreign minister said “there is no way we will denuclearize first” without the Americans taking so-called trust-building steps.

By MILAN SCHREUER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2NMjnON
via IFTTT A police operation across several towns and cities yielded powerful guns and bomb-making materials.

By GARDINER HARRIS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OTsiKF
via IFTTT The White House wanted to cut aid to El Salvador after it severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of China. But that could have jeopardized efforts to curb illegal immigration.

By HANNAH BEECH, MUKTITA SUHARTONO and RICHARD C. PADDOCK from NYT World https://ift.tt/2xTYwiP
via IFTTT The twin disasters killed at least 384 people on Sulawesi, and the death toll is feared to be far worse. The country’s vice president said thousands may have died.

By MEGAN SPECIA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2RaIJDZ
via IFTTT Tara Fares was gunned down in broad daylight, the latest outspoken woman killed in a series of attacks that Iraqi officials are investigating as possibly linked.

By EDWARD WONG from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OlJ8oH
via IFTTT Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the employees were being temporarily relocated and the United States would respond to attacks by militias supported by Iran.

By KATRIN BENNHOLD from NYT World https://ift.tt/2xW6yqh
via IFTTT A three-day state visit by the Turkish president was supposed to help repair relations. It has fallen short.

By IAN AUSTEN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2xKCrTD
via IFTTT Canada’s House of Commons voted to revoke the honorary citizenship of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for not criticizing violence by Myanmar’s military against the Rohingya.

By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/2xV6bws
via IFTTT A tour of farms and factories in China’s northeast gave Mr. Xi a chance to look like Mao and take aim at Trump.

By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/2DPJJer
via IFTTT The Chinese Communist Party is cracking down on a group of student protesters who have done little but fight for communism’s values and praise Marx, Mao and President Xi Jinping.

By EDWARD WONG from NYT World https://ift.tt/2xJBb2X
via IFTTT President Trump and American officials clarified their policy in a range of hot spots: North Korea, Syria, Iran, Israel and China. Oh, and Canada.

By RICK GLADSTONE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2IkkEGR
via IFTTT In their General Assembly speeches, the Palestinian and Israeli leaders offered starkly opposing appraisals of an intractable dispute.

By MOTOKO RICH from NYT World https://ift.tt/2zyxZZq
via IFTTT Japan may have given President Trump a chance to declare victory, but in the short term it has escaped damaging tariffs on its auto industry.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2NPLxsk
via IFTTT Videos showed a powerful wave hitting Palu, Indonesia after several strong earthquakes.

By DANIEL VICTOR and TIFFANY MAY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2xWFRC9
via IFTTT Researchers stressed the seriousness of even one case of animal-to-human infection in densely populated areas.

By ADAM NOSSITER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2R1VWPw
via IFTTT Few had heard of Nick Conrad, a rapper from a Paris suburb. Then his music video started making the rounds, outraging French lawmakers.

By JASON HOROWITZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/2NMKWrq
via IFTTT The appointment of Marcello Foa has raised alarms and marks a victory of the populist parties over the establishment media that once discounted them.

By AUSTIN RAMZY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Nc3nkc
via IFTTT Residents in small boats rushed to the crash site to save passengers and crew members from the sinking aircraft, an official said.

By DAVID E. SANGER and MEGAN SPECIA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OjFbkg
via IFTTT Benjamin Netanyahu said intelligence agents had found the facility in Tehran, setting up a challenge to Iran to prove it’s not violating the nuclear deal.

By ALISSA J. RUBIN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2QYVsJU
via IFTTT A man was fined for lewd, insulting comments to a woman aboard a bus. He was also jailed, for slapping her behind and hitting the bus driver.

By FELIPE VILLAMOR from NYT World https://ift.tt/2R1mi4a
via IFTTT The Philippine president’s statement could bolster the cases against him at the International Criminal Court over a drug war that has left thousands dead.

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, HARI KUMAR and KAI SCHULTZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/2xWQoNl
via IFTTT As the country’s politics have veered to the right and become increasingly divisive, the justices have often acted as a progressive counterweight.

By THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Q8XTZh
via IFTTT World leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, after two days dominated by President Trump.

By REUTERS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2R1OBiT
via IFTTT Nayib Bukele, former mayor of El Salvador's capital, is the frontrunner expected to win the presidential election in February in the impoverished and crime-ridden Central American country, according to a poll released on Wednesday.

By KATRIN BENNHOLD and CARLOTTA GALL from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OcQF9g
via IFTTT A state visit is aimed at normalizing relations with a NATO partner, but it also underscores that Europe has to deal with a budding dictator on its border.

By MEGAN SPECIA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2ImLfDq
via IFTTT The new report offers the first comprehensive tally of the scale of devastation in a largely forgotten war.

By PATRICK KINGSLEY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2zwMvRp
via IFTTT Changes to welfare benefits and funding cuts are driving the working poor into crisis — and reversing a long-term decline in the childhood poverty rate.

By DANIEL VICTOR from NYT World https://ift.tt/2xREIeP
via IFTTT Kyle Mulinder does. As he kayaked in New Zealand, the fateful moment was captured on video.

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2QYtDkV
via IFTTT The New Zealand prime minister’s values, charisma and status as a new mother, have made her a superstar. But, critics say, there is much more to leadership.

By MARK LANDLER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2zwiEbK
via IFTTT Mr. Trump said he favored a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His administration has been working on a peace plan for nearly two years.

By ELLEN BARRY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2R28N47
via IFTTT A group of investigative journalists from Britain and Russia traced the identity of a suspect whose passport name was assumed to be an alias.

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2ORop9i
via IFTTT Sarah Mardini, credited with helping to rescue people on a sinking boat, and four others working for a Greek aid group face charges that could put them in prison for decades.

By MARK LANDLER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Q7pREA
via IFTTT Mr. Trump offered no evidence of Chinese meddling in the November vote, but he has previously accused China of aiming tariffs at American states that support him.

By AMY QIN and KAROLINE KAN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OjT0iV
via IFTTT A man’s decision to turn part of a Buddhist temple into a shrine to China’s Communist Party stirred outrage in Taiwan.

By THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OQBKP3
via IFTTT Returning to the United Nations on Wednesday, President Trump led a meeting on the issue of nonproliferation at the Security Council.

By ELISABETH MALKIN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Q6BnjC
via IFTTT The federal and state police, backed by the army, took over security in the resort city, where the local force is suspected to have been infiltrated by organized crime.

By JOHN ELIGON from NYT World https://ift.tt/2zv0abB
via IFTTT Clashes in the German city of Chemnitz drew global attention. But a festival in tiny Leinefelde reflects the quieter inroads being made by the far right.

By AUSTIN RAMZY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Q2QvhO
via IFTTT Chinese officials demanded an apology over a Swedish satirical program’s skit about Chinese tourists, which the network says was meant to highlight racism.

By DECLAN WALSH from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Q2NttU
via IFTTT Engineers and archaeologists working together to save an ancient riverside temple in Egypt have discovered rare treasures, including a sphinx.