Trump has criticized India on climate change and wants to reduce the numbers of Indian tech workers who come to the U.S. Both men will seek to paper over those differences Monday at the White House.
Intelligence officials have found it hard to keep President Trump’s attention when they are describing complex geopolitical conflicts during his daily briefings. Yet Trump has regularly zeroed in on the status of individual Americans imprisoned overseas. Such was the case with Otto Warmbier. “What...
Russia’s Defense Ministry warned sternly Monday that it would target U.S. warplanes flying in a conflict zone of Syria, raising the stakes in a war that now involves more than a dozen countries and has long held the potential for a superpower confrontation. Russia was responding to the U.S. downing...
Israeli jackhammers broke ground on a new Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Tuesday, just one day before President Trump’s adviser Jared Kushner joins talks in Jerusalem and Ramallah aimed at reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Kushner’s arrival to participate in a round of shuttle...
Once shaded in canopies of leaves, the N-236-1 is a rural road that cuts through central Portugal, hugging hillsides pungent with eucalyptus and pine. Now it is littered with husks of burned cars. Along the shoulder, ashen wisps of tree trunks stand sentinel like totem poles. A headline in Portugal’s...
Despite concerns about such issues as rising food prices and tension with the West, many Russians support the direction the country is headed under President Vladimir Putin, according to a new poll. About 87% of the respondents said they had confidence in Putin’s handling of foreign affairs, and...
The United States has failed to muster regional support for condemnation of Venezuela despite basic agreements that the government of President Nicolas Maduro has overstepped democratic bounds. At a conference in the Mexican resort city of Cancun, the 34-nation Organization of American States argued...
In a city shaken by a string of recent attacks blamed on Islamist extremists, it was an all-too familiar scene: A van tearing through a crowd, leaving bloodied and terrified people in its wake. Only this time, authorities say the driver was 47-year-old Darren Osborne, a father of four from Wales...
Amid deep uncertainty over the future relationship between Britain and the European Union, negotiators from both sides did their best to put a positive spin on the first official day of divorce talks. “There is more that unites us than divides us,” Britain’s top negotiator, David Davis, told reporters...
Wafa Yazeedi, a doctor and single mother who runs a hospital in this tiny Persian Gulf nation, has found herself in the middle of a sudden political crisis that has engulfed parts of the Arab world — and threatened to break up her family. A blockade of Qatar that took full effect this weekend technically...
In early 2014, Yakinge Kolomi faced a nightmarish dilemma. Boko Haram extremists had recently rampaged through areas close to her village in northeastern Nigeria, massacring men who refused to join them and abducting young women — then forcing them into marriage. Kolomi knew that her 12-year-old...
As predicted, French President Emmanuel Macron’s new party won a majority in Parliament in a second round of voting on Sunday, giving him commanding control of the country’s political system. The results, however, did not bring the crushing landslide almost every poll had forecast. The new leader’s...
Hundreds of Venezuelans from the Warao indigenous group have started settling in the streets of the northern Brazilian city of Manaus to escape the turmoil that has overtaken Venezuela.
His shop has become a haunt for Syrian troops, Russian soldiers, visiting journalists and the few others who make it to this now-forlorn remnant of a town in the Syrian desert. Impromptu gatherings at a plastic table outside Issa Khateeb’s store provide a glimpse of the animated hub that Palmyra...
When President Trump scaled back President Obama’s pact that broadened relations with Cuba, he said he was “completely canceling” a “terrible and misguided deal.” There was a time in Florida when the Cuban American community would have reacted to such an announcement with almost uniform approval....
Trump’s new guidelines make it more difficult to travel and do business with Cuba. Here’s a look.
On the streets around the charred Grenfell Tower, Prime Minister Theresa May’s name is being uttered in angry tones with rising frequency. “She didn’t speak to anyone when she came here.” “She’s supposed to be our leader." “Coward.” Those are just some of the words local residents have said during...
Palestinian militants launched an attack with guns and knives near Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday, killing a border policewoman and wounding three other people in the first attack within Israel or the West Bank claimed by the militant group Islamic State. Hours after the attack, the group announced...