Anxiety is mounting in South Korea’s largest hospitals, now starting to buckle under the gaping absence of thousands of trainee doctors who are on strike against a government plan to increase the intake of medical students.Despite...
Takeshi Ebisawa, a 60-year-old Japanese man—believed by U.S. officials to be a leader within the organized crime syndicate Yakuza—has been charged with conspiring to traffic nuclear substances from Myanmar to other countries with...
After an evening of chaos in the U.K. House of Commons on Wednesday, British lawmakers are calling for Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to resign. At the time of publication, at least 59 MPs have signed a motion of no confidence in Hoyle...
SAN DIEGO — China plans to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding gesture of friendship toward the United States after nearly all the iconic bears on loan to U.S. zoos were returned as relations...
Over the decades, North Korea’s leaders have periodically made bombastic threats of Military force against South Korea and its foreign backers, particularly the U.S. and Japan. And for the most part, while carefully monitoring North...
A Philippine televangelist and “spiritual adviser” to former President Rodrigo Duterte wanted by the FBI said he has gone into hiding, accusing officials in the U.S. and Philippines of seeking to “eliminate” him.Apollo Carreon...
The World Food Programme announced on Tuesday that it will be temporarily halting aid deliveries to northern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people depend on the organization’s assistance for lifesaving nutrition.The World Food...
When the now-martyred Alexei Navalny was a sarcastically witty student in this first author’s 2010 Yale class, he asked how my lessons on charismatic leadership apply to challenging collective cowardice. Winston Churchill’s 1938...
Two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Western leaders proclaimed their full support for Kyiv, Congressional Republicans seem ready to throw Ukraine under the bus. The Republican Speaker of the House,...
Taraji P. Henson knows what it means to be undervalued—and she wants to fix that. In a December interview, the actor made headlines with an uncompromising critique of pay inequality in Hollywood, saying that after more than 20 years...
Booming numbers of foreign visitors to Japan are driving up prices at restaurants near tourist spots, as a weaker yen makes the country a bargain destination and local wages struggle to keep up with a broader rise in costs.Emblematic...
Pakistan’s two old-guard political parties agreed to form a government, a move that breaks an almost two-week deadlock and likely keeps jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party out of government even though it won the most seats...
In 2015, a 62-year-old man named Kunjumon Devasey from a remote village in Kerala arrived at his local forest division office to turn himself in. His crime: for nearly two years, the former forest watcher was an accomplice to a ring...
Few people understand what Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of the slain Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, is going through right now better than Evgenia Kara-Murza. Like Navalnaya, she has experienced what it’s like to have a spouse jailed...
WASHINGTON — The White House says it is preparing additional “major sanctions” on Russia in response to opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in an Arctic penal colony.National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday...
Prince William has called for an end to fighting between Israel and Hamas “as soon as possible” in a rare statement about the ongoing conflict.In the statement shared by Kensington Palace on Feb. 20, the 41-year-old Prince of Wales...
Yulia Navalnaya’s account on Elon Musk’s X social-media service was briefly suspended, a day after it was used to help her challenge Russian President Vladimir Putin over the death of her husband.The widow of opposition leader...
It is now broadly agreed on the right of center that China poses the greatest threat to Americans’ security, freedom, and prosperity—and that the danger is growing. As Beijing continues its vast and historic Military buildup, it...
On Tuesday, the U.S. vetoed a resolution backed by Algeria that would call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza strip. This is the third time the U.S. has vetoed such a resolution at the U.N. Security Council. “This draft resolution...
Russia’s FSB securities services have detained a Los Angeles resident with U.S. and Russian dual nationality on charges of treason, state media TASS said Tuesday. The 33-year-old woman was identified as Ksenia Karelina...
The heir to the Spanish throne has sworn allegiance to the Constitution on her 18th birthday, laying the groundwork for her to become queen when the time comesMADRID -- The heir to the Spanish throne, Princess Leonor, swore allegiance...
