Haiti on the brink: Violence, fear, and desperation grip the capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—As the sun sets, a burly man bellows into a megaphone while a curious crowd gathers around him. Next to him is a small cardboard box with several banknotes worth 10 Haitian...
View Article1,300 people from Myanmar flee into Thailand after new clashes broke out in...
BANGKOK—About 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand, officials said Saturday, as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas.
View ArticleIsraeli strikes in south Gaza kill 13 Palestinians, mostly children
RAFAH, Gaza Strip—Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 13 people, including nine children, health officials said Sunday, as the United States was on track to approve...
View Article60th Venice Biennale titled ‘Foreigners Everywhere’ platforms LGBTQ+,...
VENICE, Italy—Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition that opened Saturday, curated for the first time by a Latin...
View ArticleUS House votes to force TikTok’s parent company to divest ownership, paving...
After years of working to assure the US government that its popular social media app isn’t a threat to national security, TikTok’s loss in that fight now seems almost inevitable.
View ArticleIran’s Khamenei shifts focus from missile attack to ‘national will’ as...
JERUSALEM—Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there, a tacit acknowledgment that despite...
View ArticleEurope faces alarming temperature rise at double the global average, says report
NAPLES, Italy—Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported Monday, warning of the...
View ArticleChinese military leader threatens force to defend territorial claims
QINGDAO, China — One of China’s top military leaders took a harsh line on regional territorial disputes, telling an international naval gathering in northeastern China on Monday that the country would...
View ArticleUS aid package approved, but Ukraine’s defenses wearing thin as Russia...
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian commander Oleksiy Tarasenko witnessed a frightening shift last month in Russia’s efforts to punch through Kyiv’s defense of the industrial region known as the Donbas.
View ArticleNewborn baby survives Israeli airstrike in Gaza, losing mother, father and...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip—Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it.
View ArticleMyanmar’s figurehead vice president, a holdover from Aung San Suu Kyi’s...
BANGKOK—Myanmar’s Vice President Henry Van Thio, who served in the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and then continued in the position after the military ousted her to seize power in 2021, is...
View ArticleA cluster of earthquakes shakes Taiwan again, damaging buildings but causing...
TAIPEI, Taiwan—A cluster of earthquakes struck the island republic of Taiwan early Tuesday, the strongest having a magnitude of 6.1, according to the US Geological Survey.
View ArticleInflammatory rhetoric: Congress accuses Modi of hate speech after he calls...
NEW DELHI—India’s main opposition party is accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators” and used some of his most incendiary rhetoric to date about the...
View ArticleBeijing-Washington tensions remain top concern for US companies in China,...
Simmering tensions between Beijing and Washington remain the top worry for American companies operating in China, according to a report by the American Chamber of Commerce in China released Tuesday.
View ArticleWith public universities under threat, big protests against austerity shake...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Raising their textbooks and diplomas and singing the national anthem, hundreds of thousands of Argentines filled the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities on Tuesday to...
View ArticleRussian strike on Kharkiv’s TV tower is part of an intimidation campaign,...
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian missile strike that smashed a prominent skyline television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin’s effort to intimidate...
View ArticleBiden tries to navigate Israel-Hamas war protests roiling college campuses
NEW YORK—Student protests over the war in Gaza have created a new and unpredictable challenge for President Joe Biden as he resists calls to cut off US support for Israel while trying to hold together...
View ArticleIndonesia declares Subianto president-elect after highest court rejected...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesia’s electoral commission formally declared Prabowo Subianto president-elect in a ceremony on Wednesday, after the country’s highest court rejected challenges to his...
View ArticleWorld sees near breakdown of international law amid wars in Gaza and Ukraine,...
LONDON—The world is seeing a near breakdown of international law amid flagrant rule-breaking in Gaza and Ukraine, multiplying armed conflicts, the rise of authoritarianism and huge rights violations...
View ArticleSenate overwhelmingly passes $95 billion in war aid for Ukraine, Israel and...
WASHINGTON—The Senate has passed $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden after months of delays and contentious debate over how involved...
View ArticleUN calls for independent probe into mass graves uncovered at two Gaza...
UNITED NATIONS—The United Nations called Tuesday for “a clear, transparent and credible investigation” of mass graves uncovered at two major hospitals in war-torn Gaza that were raided by Israeli troops.
View ArticleBiden says the US is rushing weaponry to Ukraine as he signs a $95 billion...
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he was immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine as he signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also included assistance for...
View ArticleIsraeli strikes in Rafah kill 5, including 2 children, as death toll in Gaza...
Palestinian hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip have killed at least five people.
View ArticleShip attacked off coast of Yemen as Houthi rebel campaign appears to gain new...
JERUSALEM—A ship traveling in the Gulf of Aden came under attack Thursday, officials said, the latest assault likely carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels over Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza...
View ArticleUS-China relations: Blinken’s visit in Shanghai highlights deep-seated trade,...
SHANGHAI—US Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised what the US describes as unfair Chinese trade practices during his first full day of meetings in China on Thursday with local government officials...
View ArticleA US-led effort to bring aid to Gaza by sea is moving forward. But big...
JERUSALEM—The construction of a new port in Gaza and an accompanying US military-built pier offshore are underway, but the complex plan to bring more desperately needed food to Palestinian civilians...
View ArticleAntony Blinken meets with China’s President Xi as US, China spar over...
BEIJING—US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials, warning of the dangers of misunderstandings and miscalculations as the United...
View ArticleChinese companies are investing abroad at fastest pace in 8 years
China’s overseas investment is heading for an eight-year high as its dominant firms build more factories abroad, a shift that could soften criticism of Beijing’s export drive.
View ArticleJournalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news...
NEW YORK—This spring, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the...
View ArticleUSC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens arrested on other campuses as...
The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide Thursday as protests against the Israel-Hamas...
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