The Obama administration has condemned the Israeli government for approving plans to create a new Jewish settlement on the West Bank. The Eli settlement (foreground), pictured in 2015, overlooks Palestinian villages in the West Bank.
In an uncommonly harsh statement, the Obama administration condemned the Israeli government for approving plans to create a new Jewish settlement on the West Bank.
President Vladimir V. Putin, analysts say, is advancing goals in the Syrian conflict while President Obama is on the way out and his replacement is undetermined.
Tens of thousands of Afghans could be deported in the deal, just as the Taliban war has intensified, killing and wounding more civilians than ever.
The apparent plan by the Chinese president has unsettled the party elite and created uncertainty over whether Mr. Xi will try to stay in power beyond the usual two terms.
The International Court of Justice said it did not have jurisdiction because there was no evidence of a legal dispute that it could adjudicate.
The Security Council announced that Mr. Guterres, a former Portuguese prime minister and former chief of the United Nations refugee agency, had strong support.
The top United Nations official in Haiti described the storm as “the largest humanitarian event” in the nation of 11 million since a devastating earthquake six years ago.
A man attacked two officers in the Schaerbeek district on Wednesday, not long after bomb scares led to the evacuations of a train station and a government building.
Mrs. May, speaking at her party’s convention, sought to court disaffected working-class voters and vowed to rein in abuses by big business.
Near the border with Italy, a farmer and his network of “citizen smugglers” have helped hundreds cross the border, in a personal response to his nation’s muddled handling of the crisis.
What a photographer saw when a rescue vessel went into action off the Libyan coast.
Stoic and emotional reactions at a seminar in Beijing hinted at the fallout from the widespread practice of sending young children to live away from home.
For a century, scientists have assumed that European eels synchronize their journeys to breed in the Sargasso Sea. A new study suggests otherwise.
“It’s pretty wild how queer Ireland has become,” says her alter ego, Rory O’Neill, an activist who played a big role in legalizing same-sex marriage.
Most Chinese want their government to focus on domestic issues rather than helping other nations, the survey also found.
Backers of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights say it starts important conversations about injustice, but some aboriginal people say it plays down their continuing plight.
An article in an Islamic State publication bears the byline of Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, a militant who was killed with two associates in a police raid in late August.
Among other measures, the law had authorized prison terms of up to seven years for reading foreign newspapers or listening to broadcasters like the BBC.
The theory holds that women are often placed in positions of power when the situation is dire, men are fleeing and the likelihood of success is low.
A government auditing agency will study whether American officials should broaden how they inspect foreign purchases in the U.S.
Harry Sarfo, a German jailed in his home country, appears to be shooting toward a man on the ground, although the view is partially blocked.
While under President George Bush, Mr. Reed was part of ‘the talking hat’ affair, a slip-up that entered the annals of diplomatic history.
Mr. Wong, 19, said after returning to Hong Kong that he had been held with little explanation from Thai officials, who he said had “mentioned a blacklist.”
After the defeat of a peace deal, the range of possibilities is dizzying, from quick talks to produce an amended agreement to an effort to rewrite the Constitution.
The soft-spoken radio announcer both entertained and reproached American forces.
Prosecutors saw no crime in a satirical poem about Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, and dropped charges against a German comedian.
The service member, the third American killed in hostilities in Afghanistan this year, was on a mission against Islamic State fighters in Nangarhar Province.
A new bill would end capital punishment for drug smugglers, who accounted for most of the country’s hundreds of executions last year, but hard-liners oppose it.
The country’s location in the Caribbean and on the Gonâve microplate makes it highly vulnerable to tropical storms and earthquakes.
Mr. Duterte, whose government is carrying out a deadly war on drugs, was angered by what he said was the United States’ refusal to sell weapons to the Philippines.
Francis vowed after the deadly tremor that he would travel to the region and pray with residents, but he had delayed the trip to avoid hindering rebuilding efforts.
Solving an infestation of whiteflies in Tehran came down to this: Pray for a long, cold winter to kill their eggs, or cut down all the mulberries. Officials try sticky paper instead.
The secretary of state said Moscow ignored President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chlorine gas and barrel bombs against his own people.
People’s Daily, the Communist Party newspaper, said 589 million people were expected to travel this week — almost twice the population of the United States.
On his organization’s 10th anniversary, he vowed to release “significant material” about a range of issues, including the U.S. election.
Nine men, including one said to be an aide to a cabinet minister, shed their clothes to reveal briefs that featured Malaysia’s flag.
David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz were recognized for transforming the understanding of matter that assumes strange shapes.
Though such votes are portrayed as popular governance in its purest form, studies have found that they often subvert democracy rather than serve it.
After Afghan commandos arrived to battle an insurgent assault on the critical city, residents said that heavy fighting was spreading to other areas.
In Dakar and other cities, men stand on street corners with cages of red-billed firefinches, which people buy and release to get rid of sins and anxiety.
For the Royal Flying Doctor Service to arrive and land on a remote runway at night, about 30 cans with flaming rolls sometimes have to be lined up.
In his three months in office, President Rodrigo Duterte has found many ways to damage his country’s ties to America.
The Kremlin fears sociologists even more than it needs them.
If the opponents of peace refuse to compromise, the country will stagnate as a society, as an economy, and as a democracy.
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