The less-ambitious approach fit with U.S. President’s determination to pivot his foreign-policy focus from Middle East hotspots to China. The United States’ angry Arab partners are pointing to America’s failure to actively engage as Israeli-Palestinian violence roars back to center stage
As the Kremlin’s war entered its 600th day, Ukrainian forces repelled 15 Russian attacks from four directions on Avdiivka over the previous 24 hours compared with up to 60 attacks a day in the middle of last week
Police found an audio recording in the suspect’s phone where he declared allegiance to the Islamic State and expressed ‘his hatred for France, for the French, for democracy and the education he benefitted from in our country’
The U.N.’s most powerful body, which is charged with maintaining international peace and security, has failed to respond to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and to Israel response with retaliatory airstrikes
Trump’s Save America political action committee has paid nearly $37 million to more than 60 law firms and individual attorneys since January 2022, Federal Election Commission records show
Maduro’s government agreed to open up the electoral process, including allowing European Union observers and creating a process for lifting bans that have blocked his top opponents from running for president
The suspect was Tunisian and had been denied asylum in 2019. He was known to police and had been suspected of involvement of human trafficking, living illegally in Belgium and of being a risk to state security
The conference features speakers including the chief executives of Shell, Saudi Arabia’s Aramco and Norway’s Equinor, as well as the U.K.’s energy security minister
The updates introduce new requirements that make it more difficult for China to manufacture advanced chips abroad. The list of manufacturing equipment that falls under the export controls has also been expanded, among other changes to the policy
The ultra-conservative Law and Justice, which has governed the country for eight years, won slightly over 35%, making it the single party with the most votes. But the party and its leader Jarosław Kaczyński lost their majority
Monday’s record confirms that this part of the world’s largest rainforest is suffering its worst drought, just a little over two years after its most significant flooding
Belgian anti-terror center spokeswoman Laura Demullier says the top priority for authorities is to get the thousands of fans safely out of the King Baudouin Stadium
A firebrand economist-turned-lawmaker who describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist and says the answer to reining in annual inflation now running around 140% is to get rid of the Central Bank and dollarize the economy
Ahtisaari helped reach peace accords related to Serbia’s withdrawal from Kosovo in the late 1990s, Namibia’s bid for independence in the 1980s, and autonomy for Aceh province in Indonesia in 2005
New maps favoring Democrats would weaken Republicans’ grip on legislative power, which they have also used in the Senate to fire Democratic Gov. Tony Evers appointees and to threaten impeachment of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz and the state’s elections leader
Colombia and other countries have tried in recent months to restart negotiations between the sides, but the government of President Nicolás Maduro has demanded that the U.S. drop economic sanctions and unfreeze Venezuelan funds held overseas as a condition of resuming talks
A floor vote that could turn into a showdown is set for Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump ally took a cooperative tone vowing to ‘bring all Republicans together’ if he becomes House speaker
Motor vehicle thefts showed the biggest increase at 10.9%. The FBI said carjackings increased 8.1% from 2021, and the vast majority of them involving an assailant with a weapon. Someone was injured in more than a quarter of all carjackings
Russia’s war in Ukraine has put integration of the Western Balkans into the EU at the top of the 27-nation bloc’s agenda. The EU made it a requirement for Western Balkans to reform their economies and political institutions before joining
Last week, 8,700 union members stopped working at the largest and most profitable Ford plant in the world, the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville
In recent days, police in U.S. cities and federal authorities have been on high alert for violence driven by antisemitic or Islamophobic sentiments
The company runs more than 2,100 stores in the United States, mostly on the East and West Coasts and has posted annual losses for several years
Biden is expected to hold a series of high-level meetings with aides on Israel and the growing humanitarian concerns in Gaza. The president is weighing a decision to visit the region in what would be a striking symbol of support for Israel
Only 22% of Republicans have high confidence that votes in the 2024 presidential election will be counted accurately, compared to 71% of Democrats
There’s no guarantee his crowds will translate to support in the state’s Jan. 15 caucuses, which will launch the 2024 nominating cycle
Trump has sued the company founded by Christopher Steele, who created a dossier in 2016 that contained rumors and uncorroborated allegations that erupted in a political storm just before he was inaugurated
Guided bombs hit key infrastructure in the city of Kherson, sparking a partial blackout and disruption to the area’s water supply
