WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Emotional farewells are a common sight at airports, but Travelers leaving the New Zealand city of Dunedin will have to be quick. A new three-minute time limit on goodbye hugs in the airport's drop-off area...
TEL AVIV, Israel — Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday on his 11th visit to the region since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The U.S. hopes to revive cease-fire efforts after the killing of top Hamas...
With an “Armenia wassup!” and rakish shimmy, Floridian pop sensation Jason Derulo opened the 2024 World Congress on Innovation & Technology (WCIT) in Yerevan on Oct. 4. “The biggest party in the world is right here in Armenia...
President Vladimir Putin will play host to Russia’s biggest gathering of world leaders since the invasion of Ukraine and use the BRICS summit to show the U.S. and its allies that he’s no pariah.With Russian troops advancing in...
LIMA, Peru — Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo on Monday was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which became synonymous with corruption across Latin...
SAYLORSBURG, Pa. — Fethullah Gülen, a reclusive U.S.-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing accusations he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkey, has died.Abdullah Bozkurt, the former...
An Indigenous senator has interrupted a reception for British monarch King Charles III during his first visit since taking the throne, calling for a treaty between the Australian government and First Nations peoples. At an event...
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Prabowo Subianto was inaugurated Sunday as the eighth president of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, completing his journey from an ex-general accused of rights abuses during the dark days of...
Two and a half years into Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Western effort to wean Europe off of Russian oil and gas and isolate the Kremlin has stalled. The E.U.’s much lauded energy transition has kept apace, but it has also provided...
HAVANA — Oscar has weakened to a tropical storm after making landfall Sunday in eastern Cuba.The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Oscar had 70 mph (110 kph) winds late Sunday and was 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of Guantanamo....
JERUSALEM — Israel's government said a drone targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house Saturday, with no casualties, as fighting with Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Gaza-based Hamas showed no pause after the killing of the...
The corpse of Yahya Sinwar was found in the landscape he envisioned—the dusty rubble of an apocalyptic war ignited by the sneak attack he had planned in secret for years, and launched on Oct. 7, 2023. The catch was that the fighting...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said North Korea is preparing to send 10,000 troops to help Russia’s war on Ukraine, in a sign of deepening Military cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang.“We know about 10,000 soldiers...
As cities around the world grapple with congestion and seek to lower emissions, one New Zealand-based startup is looking upward for solutions. Next year, Whoosh will begin construction on a gondola-like ride-hailing network in a 370-acre...
On Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who is said to have orchestrated the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, in the Gaza Strip. “Eliminated: Yahya Sinwar,” the IDF posted to...
LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistani police fired tear gas and charged at student protesters who ransacked a college building Thursday, as anger spread over an alleged on-campus rape.Tensions have been high on college campuses since reports...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. long-range B-2 stealth bombers launched airstrikes early Thursday morning targeting underground bunkers used by Yemen's Houthi rebels, officials said.It wasn't immediately clear what damage was...
(CAPE TOWN, South Africa) — Months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region's worst hunger crisis in decades, the...
“There’s no making it,” says Nicola Coughlan. “You just have to keep going and can’t rest on your laurels.” It was at 19, Coughlan tells TIME in our most recent cover story, that she decided to pursue a career in acting....
Concern is mounting regarding the Health of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has spent over a year in a squalid prison cell on a slew of charges his supporters insist are politically motivated.On Tuesday, Khan’s...
LONDON — King Charles III, who is 75 and battling cancer, will Travel halfway around the world to Samoa this month to take his seat as the head of the Commonwealth and highlight the existential threat that climate change poses for...
