The Kremlin on Friday ordered the United States to reduce the number of American diplomats in retaliation for a new Russian sanctions bill passed this week in the U.S. Congress. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying the number of American diplomats in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow...
Sweeping new efforts to bring Britain’s growing air pollution crisis under control were announced by the government Wednesday, including a ban on the sale of new diesel and gasoline vehicles beginning in 2040. Environment Secretary Michael Gove said the changes are part of a $3.9-billion clean...
U.S.-backed Syrian fighters fought Islamic State militants in the heart of Raqqah, the extremists' self-styled capital, on Monday, as scores of civilians fled areas controlled by the group. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, has been one of the most effective groups fighting Islamic...
Fleets of big black trucks, harbor boats and aircraft, equipped with radiation sensors and operated by specially trained law enforcement teams, are ready to swing into action in Los Angeles for a catastrophe that nobody even wants to think about: a North Korean nuclear attack. American cities have...
A federal judge in Detroit has temporarily halted the deportations of more than 1,400 Iraqi immigrants, ruling that they deserve to have their cases play out in court because of the risk that they could be targeted for persecution in Iraq. In a ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith...
Seeking to defuse rising tensions with Muslims over access to a holy shrine in Jerusalem, the Israeli Cabinet announced early Tuesday that it would remove metal detectors it had placed at the entrance to the site after a deadly attack by Israeli Arab gunmen there this month. Photographs posted...
Quiet sobs reverberated in a London courtroom Monday as the parents of the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard told a judge they had decided to let their “sweet, gorgeous and innocent” boy go and were withdrawing a bid to take him to the United States for experimental treatment. Bowing to the consensus...
Hundreds of activists, lawyers and observers packed an Istanbul courthouse Monday as prosecutors began laying out an indictment against 17 people from Turkey’s leading secular newspaper, Cumhuriyet, including its senior editorial staff. The defendants are alleged to be a part of various terror...
A car bomb exploded in Kabul on Monday morning, striking a minibus carrying Afghan government employees and killing at least 24 people, officials said. Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said 42 other people were wounded, all but one of them outside the bus. The Toyota Corolla packed with explosives...
A small clearing in a dense northwestern Russian forest marks the site where, 20 years ago, Yuri Dmitriev discovered a group of mass graves containing victims of Josef Stalin’s Great Terror. Using detailed documents uncovered in KGB archives, Dmitriev was able to piece together the location where...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu huddled with Cabinet ministers Sunday to reconsider the placement of metal detectors at the entrance to a sacred Jerusalem plaza, which touched off a wave of deadly Palestinian unrest and a diplomatic crisis for Israel. Palestinian leaders and Israel’s Arab neighbors...
East Jerusalem continued to smolder Saturday after one of the worst days of Israeli-Palestinian unrest in years. Masked youths clashed with riot police on streets littered with stones hurled by rioters and shops were shuttered to protest violence that left three Palestinians dead the day before...
A U.S. airstrike mistakenly hit an Afghan police unit in the southern province of Helmand, killing 16 police officers and wounding two others, the provincial governor’s office said Saturday. The Pentagon confirmed that coalition forces had launched the errant strike on Friday near the town of Gereshk,...
Drug war bloodshed in Mexico has spiked to record levels, with more homicides recorded in June than in any month in at least two decades. Prosecutors opened 2,234 homicide investigations last month, according to government statistics released Friday. That’s an increase of 40% over June of last...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday froze ties with Israel hours after clashes with Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem and the West Bank left three Palestinians dead and hundreds injured, in one of the worst days of unrest in years. Three Israelis were stabbed to death...
“You know, I didn’t want to speak out,” Gustavo Dudamel said in a short interview in his office at Walt Disney Concert Hall. He’d just taken part in a conversation at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Take a Stand” symposium, which brings together administrators, teachers and young musicians from...
It was still daylight when a Mexican military patrol was attacked on the city streets, leading to what authorities described as a fierce firefight with a heavily armed gang. Soon the Internet and newspapers were showing images of the gory aftermath: the bloodstained bodies of the gang leader and...
The State Department said Friday it will prohibit U.S. citizens from traveling to North Korea starting late next month, citing the risk of arrest and imprisonment by the authoritarian regime in Pyongyang. The decision by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson bars use of U.S. passports "to travel in,...