Four years after China imposed a strict national security law on Hong Kong, the territory’s leader says the time has come for the city to pass its own version. Chief Executive John Lee told...
Israel’s military said Tuesday it “neutralized” three militants in the occupied West Bank, including one it said had links to Hamas and was planning an imminent attack inspired by the Oct. 7 Hamas assault...
Abuja, Nigeria — Analysts in West Africa are reacting to the sudden exit of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from the regional economic bloc ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, and are...
BELGRADE, Serbia — A trial started Monday for the parents of a Serbian teenager accused of fatally shooting 10 people and injuring six more at his school last May. The suspected shooter, Kosta Kecmanovic,...
Washington — Myanmar’s military government has approved resumption of construction of the Chinese-backed Kyaukphyu deep-sea port after years of delay. The project is a significant step in China’s push to develop an outlet to...
Twenty international aid groups expressed support Monday for the United Nations’ Palestinian relief agency, as several major donors suspended support following the revelation that a dozen staffers may have been involved in the October...
new york — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he believes war crimes have been committed by both sides in the Darfur region of Sudan since fighting erupted between rival...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Monday that Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia was at risk without a new round of aid approved by Congress. “Without it, simply put, everything that Ukrainians achieved...
sydney — Papua New Guinea is in early talks with China on a potential security-and-policing deal, Foreign Minister Justin Tkachenko told Reuters, weeks after deadly riots in the South Pacific nation’s capital. Amid jostling...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress on Monday suspended former President Jacob Zuma’s membership after he campaigned for a different political party. The suspension, the latest incident in a feud between Zuma and President...