Some have been spooked by the high-profile abduction. But most realize such threats are vanishingly rare.

Movies like Last Tango in Paris and Salò might be classics of the '70s, but they're so transgressive that they could never be made in today's climate.

Paramilitary forces in Sudan unleashed “a wave of intense violence…shocking in its scale and brutality” during their final offensive to capture the besieged city of El Fasher last October, committing ...