Over the decades, the concept of nation-building has been in and out of favor with successive American administrations. President Trump says he wants no part of it in Afghanistan. But past presidents have found that when it comes to foreign interventions, it’s very difficult to achieve and sustain...
India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday banned a rare form of instant divorce sanctioned in its most conservative Muslim communities, saying men could no longer dissolve a marriage simply by stating it three times. The controversial practice known as instant triple talaq — in which a man tells a woman...
As police hunted Friday for the driver who plowed into pedestrians on a popular promenade in Barcelona, evidence emerged of a wider plot that could have inflicted even more carnage. Authorities in the Spanish region of Catalonia had four people in custody and were searching for three others in...
Palestinian leaders are hoping that a meeting this week with a high-level team from the White House will provide some clarity about President Trump’s plan to get peace talks started again between Israelis and Palestinians. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a visiting delegation...
Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress on Saturday rejected a government bid to usurp many of its powers, vowing to continue its legislative agenda and denouncing the move against it as a power grab by President Nicolas Maduro. “This is a parliament in resistance against an armed military dictatorship,”...
Wayne Lotter, a prominent elephant conservationist murdered this week in Tanzania, for years had faced death threats related to his anti-poaching work, according to friends and colleagues. The 51-year-old South African was shot dead Wednesday in the East African nation’s port city of Dar es Salaam....
Venezuela’s political crisis deepened Friday as the controversial constitutional assembly declared that it is the country’s sole legislative body, essentially dissolving the democratically elected congress. “All public bodies are subordinated to the National Constitutional Assembly,” said Delcy...
Details emerge about those who died when a driver of a van rammed into a crowd on a busy pedestrian thoroughfare in Barcelona
It was before dawn, and most of the ship’s crew lay asleep in their berths aboard the Fitzgerald, a U.S. destroyer, when suddenly the ocean flooded in on the starboard side and disaster loomed. “Water on deck!” the sailors yelled. “Get out!” Seawater poured in so fast that it was already waist-deep...
As Mexican lawmakers debate expanding the role of the military in the country’s drug war, a judge has ordered a new probe into whether army commanders ordered soldiers to shoot 22 people in a 2014 incident described by human rights advocates as an extrajudicial massacre. The federal judge, whose...
One of Iran’s leading opposition politicians called off a hunger strike from his hospital bed on Thursday after intelligence officials agreed to withdraw agents from his house, where he has been under arrest for six years. Mehdi Karroubi, a 79-year-old who suffers from heart disease and was recently...
Nearly three years ago, several Hong Kong youth with hopes of greater democracy led a downtown protest that ballooned into thousands and lasted for 79 days. Now, they’re going to jail. Three student leaders who helped catalyze the city’s pro-democracy movement were sentenced to prison on Thursday,...
South Korea’s new president came to office in May after an unprecedented political corruption scandal, promising a clean administration and a fresh approach to dealing with North Korea. The president, Moon Jae-in, might well avoid the ethical pitfalls that haunted previous South Korean leaders,...
Hidden a few blocks away from Tijuana’s main thoroughfare, an old warehouse has become a cultural landmark for the city’s fashion-conscious men. Wings painted outside the building are the only indication something is different about the space, most recently used as a gym. Inside, a Drake song blasts...
The recent takeover of the Syrian province of Idlib by an extremist organization has created a dilemma for the United States and other countries that send humanitarian aid to civilians and military aid to various rebel factions fighting the Syrian government. It has become impossible to provide...
The latest nuclear crisis with North Korea appeared to ease Tuesday as Pyongyang and Washington sought to lower tension before their increasingly heated threats could spiral into war. The question is what happens next in the world’s most dangerous hot spot. U.S. and South Korean military forces...
President Trump’s demand that Germany nearly double its defense spending has become an election issue for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has increasingly come under attack for sticking to her 3-year-old promise to NATO to sharply increase investments in weapons. Although Merkel’s Christian Democrats...
Iran’s president on Tuesday warned it could restart its nuclear program “within hours or days” if the Trump administration continued its confrontational policies toward the Islamic Republic. President Hassan Rouhani’s remarks were a direct response to Trump’s increasingly bellicose rhetoric toward...