Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida won’t run for a second term as leader of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party in September, opening the way for a race to succeed him as premier.“I will devote myself to supporting the...
Read our full cover story on Benjamin Netanyahu here. You can also read a full transcript of the interview here.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down for a wide-ranging interview with TIME on Aug. 4 at his Jerusalem office....
Nearly 300,000 resident doctors of government hospitals in India have been on strike since Monday after a 31-year-old resident trainee doctor was raped and murdered while working in Kolkata, the capital of India’s West Bengal state....
ATHENS, Greece — A major forest fire was raging out of control on the northern fringes of the Greek capital Monday, triggering numerous evacuations of Athens suburbs and outlying areas as strong, swirling winds hampered the efforts...
Bangladesh’s leader MuhaMMAd Yunus has been acquitted in a graft case filed by the nation’s Anti-Corruption Commission, just days after he was sworn in to run an interim government following the ouster of Sheikh Hasina. A special...
Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Subianto said he is committed to “continue, and if possible finish” the new capital, dispelling uncertainty as to whether the incoming leader will abandon the multibillion-dollar project of...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a guided missile submarine to the Middle East and is telling the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to sail more quickly to the area, the Defense Department...
As part of its hybrid war strategy, Russia has been targeting Ukrainian grain silos, schools, hospitals, power plants, and more for two and a half years. Given the Kremlin’s failure to overrun Ukraine militarily, it has increasingly...
A passenger plane carrying 61 people crashed outside of São Paulo on Friday, killing everyone on board, the airline, Voepass Linhas Aéreas, said.The airline said in a statement on its website that flight 2283 was on its way to São...
Ravi Moun was excited to Travel to Russia from his small village in the north Indian state of Haryana in early January. One of three siblings, the 21-year-old dropped out of school after 10th grade and was looking for work when he...
Britain was braced for a long night of violent rioting on Wednesday, after a tense week of anti-migrant uprisings swept across the nation. Around 6,000 specialist officers were deployed by U.K. Prime Minister Keir Stamer to control...
On Monday, Harjap Singh Banghal got an unexpected call from the police, who warned him that he had become the target of far-right activist groups amid ongoing riots across the U.K. A renowned immigration lawyer whose offices in London...
TOKYO — A powerful earthquake struck off Japan's southern coast on Thursday, triggering a tsunami advisory that urged residents to stay away from the coastline. Nine people were injured, most of them slightly, but there were no reports...
For the past 10 months, Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to apologize for leaving Israel vulnerable to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack. After the deaths of 1,200 people and the abduction of hundreds more, a traumatized Israeli public...
For Chinese athletes and those watching back home, the Paris Olympics is not just the ultimate sporting comPetition. It’s a stage for great power rivalry—with every Chinese success serving as evidence of faltering Western dominance.“White...
National flags are ubiquitous during the Olympics in Paris, and when athletes win medals, they usually look to theirs as their national anthem is played during the podium ceremony.But not for athletes of one team.The red-and-blue flag...
“Please,” each post begins. “Don’t scroll.”Such is the familiar plea Palestinians in Gaza are making as they appeal for support on social media platforms—primarily through the video-sharing app, TikTok—amid a war that...
The Advertising Standard Authority (ASA) of the U.K. has banned a radio advertisement from the airline Virgin Atlantic because the authority believed it could be misleading to listeners. In November, radio listeners heard an ad describing...
BTS boy band member Suga, born Min Yoon-gi, has apologized after receiving a fine while driving a scooter under the iNFLuence of alcohol in the late hours of Tuesday.In a post shared on Weverse—a fan platform owned by K-pop firm...
LONDON — British police are gearing up for another night of violence amid concerns that far-right groups plan to target as many as 30 locations around the United Kingdom on Wednesday following a week of rioting and disorder.Authorities...
China clearly holds a special place in Tim Walz’s heart: The Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate speaks some Chinese. He’s traveled there some 30 times, including for his honeymoon. And he’s often spoken...
