As Myanmar Advances Resettlement Plan, Rohingya Flee

By JANE PERLEZ

A government plan to resettle Muslim minorities who cannot meet strict standards for naturalized citizenship has spurred a major exodus, rights groups say.

News Analysis

China’s Uighur Unrest Is Opportunity for Afghans

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG

With new aid and investments, Beijing seems to be coming to grips with Afghanistan’s role in its national security.

Few See New Palestinian Intifada in Jerusalem Unrest

By JODI RUDOREN

While tensions and violence appear to be rising, most commentators say the conditions are different from those of the previous Palestinian uprisings.

ISIS Wave of Might Is Turning Into Ripple

By BEN HUBBARD

The Islamic State, facing airstrikes, as well as demographics that do not favor expansion, is carrying out a less visible operation in some areas.

African Mediators Fail to Name Civilian to Lead Burkina Faso After Unrest

By HERVÉ TAOKO and ALAN COWELL

There was, however, agreement on the outlines of a plan to restore the Constitution and begin a path to elections by November next year.

Delhi Journal

The Dead of Delhi, Unknown and Unclaimed

By ELLEN BARRY

In an average year, the city’s police register more than 3,000 unidentifiable bodies, most of them men who have come from distant villages to find work.

Bulgaria’s Central Bank Revokes License of Troubled Lender K.T.B.

By GEORGI KANTCHEV

The move halts all activities at the bank and opens the way for the payment of about $2.3 billion in deposits to businesses and consumers.

Report Implicates Chinese Officials in Smuggled Tanzanian Ivory

By DAN LEVIN

Two weeks before President Xi Jinping arrived in Tanzania, Chinese buyers purchased thousands of pounds of poached tusks, which were “later sent to China in diplomatic bags on the presidential plane,” the report said.

E.C.B. Signals Broader Action to Stimulate Europe’s Economy

By JACK EWING

The bank moved closer to the kind of large-scale government bond purchases used in the United States and left its benchmark interest rate unchanged.

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Labor Program in China Moves to Scatter Uighurs Across Han Territory

By EDWARD WONG

As violence upends Xinjiang, officials are working to transplant and try to assimilate members of the mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic minority.

100,000 Workers Protest Belgian Labor Reform

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

One of Belgium's biggest postwar labor demonstrations brought about 100,000 workers to the capital on Thursday to protest government free-market reforms and austerity measures that they claim undermine Belgium's vaunted welfare state.

Russia Plans to Boycott 2016 Nuclear Meeting Hosted by Obama

By PETER BAKER

The plan to bypass the event is the latest sign of the deteriorating relationship with the United States over Ukraine.

Memo From Moscow

On Unity Day, Putin Divides Nationalists

By NEIL MacFARQUHAR and ANDREW ROTH

President Vladimir V. Putin’s inconsistent embrace of nationalist tenets may have hampered turnout at the traditional Russian March.

Treating Those Treating Ebola in Liberia

By SHERI FINK

A dedicated Ebola field hospital for health workers is scheduled to open Friday in Monrovia, Liberia, as part of an effort to ease the worries of would-be volunteers.

Egypt Elevates an Official Hostile to U.S.

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

Fayza Abul Naga, who led a criminal case against American nonprofit groups, will be national security adviser to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

At Golan Heights, Israel Eyes Syria Chaos

By JODI RUDOREN

A general said that for now neither the rebels nor President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia assisting him, were interested in engaging Israel.

Washington Denies a Role in Yemeni Unrest

By KAREEM FAHIM

Supporters of the former Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, accused the United States ambassador to Yemen of demanding that Mr. Saleh leave the country.

Ukraine to Freeze Payments in Separatist Areas

By ANDREW E. KRAMER

The prime minister said payments totaling $2.6 billion, mostly for public sector wages and pensions, would be withheld, putting a burden on Russia.

‘No Mercy’ for Killers of Couple in Pakistan

By WAQAR GILLANI

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ordered the authorities to “show no mercy” in bringing to justice those involved in the killing of a Christian couple who were accused of blasphemy.

Obama to Seek Congressional Backing for Military Campaign Against ISIS

By MARK LANDLER and DAVID E. SANGER

The president opened the door to a lengthy, potentially contentious debate over the nature and extent of American engagement in Iraq and Syria.