This 1968 film introduces the term “Cheechako,” an Alaskan Indian word meaning newcomer. The film looks at what kind of living and working conditions newcomers could expect to find when they transferred to the Alaska region in the 1960s. …

HANOI—U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sought on Thursday to nudge forward security ties with Vietnam that have been slowly deepening as both countries watch the Chinese regime’s activities in the South China Sea with growing alarm. Despite closer military relations, more than four decades after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, President Joe Biden’s administration…

ADDIS ABABA—The local government in Ethiopia’s Somali region said on Tuesday militia from the neighbouring region of Afar had attacked and looted a town, the latest flare-up in a local boundary dispute that adds to broader tensions in the Horn of Africa nation. Ali Bedel, spokesperson for the Somali region government, said Afar militia “massacred…