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U.N. Chief Warns Israel and Hezbollah of the Risk of a Wider War

After months of escalating violence along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, the chief of the United Nations warned on Friday that “the risk...

Iran’s 2024 Presidential Election: What to Know

Iran’s election for its next president will take place a year early, on June 28, after President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter...

Putin Shows He Can Antagonize the U.S. Far Afield From Ukraine

His ominous warnings, at the end of a two-day trip to North Korea and Vietnam, placed Russia and the West in a new...

Official Death Toll From Hajj Pilgrimage Climbs Into the Hundreds

During the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, one of the most important events on the Muslim calendar, at least 450 died under...

Israel says it struck a missile launch site in a Gaza ‘humanitarian zone.’

The Israeli military said on Friday that it had struck a missile launch site belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group that...

Gaza authorities say 25 people were killed by a strike on a camp for displaced people.

Gaza health officials said that 25 people were killed and 50 wounded on Friday when an Israeli military strike hit tents housing displaced...

Anthony O’Reilly, Flashy Irish Tycoon Who Led Heinz Company, Dies at 88

Anthony J.F. O’Reilly, a high-flying, charming, Irish-born former chairman of the H.J. Heinz Company, who also owned newspapers, luxury brands and trophy homes...

100 Million in U.S. Under Heat Alerts as First Summer Weekend Arrives

Two vans loaded with precision instruments trundled along the streets of New York and New Jersey in the heat earlier this week, sniffing...

Ángeles Flórez Peón, Spanish Civil War’s Last Militiawoman, Dies at 105

In 1946, she married Graciano Rozada Vallina, a miner and Socialist militant who had been seized by Franco’s police while serving with Republican...

Amid Gaza War, Netanyahu Feuds With Military, His Coalition and Washington

Analysts say the combative strategy reflects Mr. Netanyahu’s need to balance competing interests — to show a domestic audience that he is standing...

The Israeli leader’s quarrels with the White House, his military and his coalition partners have escalated at a pivotal time in the war.

Analysts say the combative strategy reflects Mr. Netanyahu’s need to balance competing interests — to show a domestic audience that he is standing...

Oil Projects Must Consider Full Climate Impact, Top U.K. Court Rules

Britain’s highest court has ruled that local councils and planning groups must consider the full environmental impact of new fossil fuel projects when...

Israeli Official Describes Secret Government Bid to Cement Control of West Bank

An influential member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition told settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that the government is engaged in a...

Students Kissed Her Feet for Good Luck. Now She’s Missing Her Head.

A marble statue of the Roman goddess of wisdom that presided over Wells College for 156 years, surviving both a devastating fire in...

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