NEW DELHI — India’s top court on Tuesday set up a national task force of doctors who will make recommendations on safety of Health care workers at their workplaces, days after the rape and killing of a trainee doctor that sparked...
Two Americans, four Britons, and a Canadian are missing or believed dead after a luxury yacht sank Monday near the coast of Sicily, Italy. British tech tycoon Mike Lynch is among the missing and the boat belonged to his family, a source...
China and Philippine coast guard vessels clashed again in the South China Sea, marking the latest flareup in the disputed waters and undermining a temporary deal to avoid coNFLict. Read More: Why the U.S. Faces a Delicate Balancing...
TEL AVIV, Israel — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will use his ninth diplomatic mission to the Middle East since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to press for the quick conclusion of an elusive ceasefire agreement.Blinken...
In the 10 months since the attacks of Oct. 7 that sparked the Israel-Hamas war, nearly 20,000 babies have been born in the Gaza Strip. And some 115 newborns have been killed, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, whose...
LONDON — Priceless paintings by Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh and others were safe after firefighters worked to douse a fire Saturday at Somerset House, a large central London arts venue.Heavy smoke and flames seen coming from the roof...
TIARET, Algeria — With an outpouring of fans greeting her as she arrived in her hometown on Friday, Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif extolled Algeria for backing its athletes and said she hoped to again make her country proud in...
An amendment to Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status law was officially proposed in the Iraqi parliament on Aug. 4. The draft law could theoretically make it legal for girls as young as nine years old to get married.The bill was proposed...
TOKYO — Thousands of people in northern Japan were ordered to evacuate Friday because of the risk of flooding and mudslides from a powerful typhoon approaching in the Pacific Ocean.Flights and trains in the Tokyo area were canceled...
Thailand’s new Prime Minister is a scion of the country’s influential Shinawatra clan and the youngest person to assume the post, as she looks to bring stability after her predecessor Srettha Thavisin was ousted by a court citing...
The march began with a call on social media that soon went viral: “For women’s independence on the midnight of Independence,” a Facebook post by 29-year-old student Rimjhim Sinha read. As India celebrated 77 years of independence...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the territory’s Health Ministry said Thursday.Israel’s offensive has also wounded 92,401 people and displaced over...
When Evgenia Kara-Murza learned that her husband, the prominent Russian opposition politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, was released from a Siberian penal colony, she was inside the Oval Office. There, she and her children...
When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan three years ago this month, one of the first things they did was paint over the images of women on billboards and murals. Since then, women and girls themselves are being erased. Girls cannot...
BANGKOK — Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, will be nominated as the country’s new prime minister in a parliamentary vote, her party and its coalition partners said Thursday.The...
YEKATERINBURG, Russia — A Russian court on Thursday sentenced U.S.-Russian dual national Ksenia Khavana to 12 years in prison on a treason conviction for allegedly raising money for the Ukrainian Military.Khavana, whom Russian authorities...
History has a habit of repeating itself—but rarely as frequently as it does in Thailand.On Wednesday, Srettha Thavisin of the populist Pheu Thai party became the fifth Prime Minister in the last 20 years to be ousted by Thailand’s...
A Palestinian man’s wife and newborn twins were killed in an Israeli airstrike this week in Gaza, while he was at a local government office registering the birth of his new children.Mohamed Abuel-Qomasan’s newborns—a boy named...
A charity working with people experiencing homelessness in New Zealand called Auckland City Mission revealed that it had unknowingly distributed sweets that contained lethal doses of methamphetamine.The Rinda brand pineapple lollies...
Last week, Xu Zaozao, also known as Teresa Xu, received the final verdict for a lawsuit she filed in 2019 against an obstetrics hospital that denied her access to egg-freezing services. Rejecting Xu's third appeal on Aug. 7, the Third...
Officials in Spain are investigating pop-star Katy Perry after she filmed a music video on the Spanish islands of Ibiza and Formentera. In the music video for her new song, “LIFETIMES,” Perry can be seen dancing against the backdrop...
