Crowds for Raisi Show Support for Iranian State, Supreme Leader Says
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Saturday that the large crowds of mourners who took to the streets of Iranian cities this past...
Ukraine Steps Up Attacks With U.S. Long-Range Missiles
The Ukrainian army has increasingly used U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to target Russian airfields and warships deep behind enemy lines, a practice that has brought it...
African Music to the World
This week, The Times published a profile of Tems, a 28-year-old Nigerian singer-songwriter who, in recent years, has: become the first African artist to debut...
After Billions of Dollars in Losses, Canada Post Warns It May Run Out of Cash
Canada Post ended the week with more grim financial news, announcing an operating loss of 221 million Canadian dollars for the first three months of...
Condemnation Slows, but Does Not Stall, Israel’s Assault on Rafah
But in the broader picture, said Gabi Siboni, a reserve colonel and a fellow of the conservative-leaning Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, the main...
Drones Have Offered Last Line of Defense for a Strategic Ukrainian Town
The commander stepped over boxes stacked full of plastic drones and opened the lid on a new delivery. Inside lay the light gray fins of...
Calls, Search Parties, Drones: 17 Hours to Find Iran’s President
Shortly before embarking on a fatal helicopter ride on Sunday, Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, and his delegation of senior officials held a communal prayer. Someone...
Why Are So Many Mexican Election Candidates Getting Killed?
One candidate was shot multiple times as he worked out at the gym. Another died after gunmen opened fire during her campaign rally. A third...
One of the Deadliest Jobs in Mexico: Running for Office
Gisela Gaytán had just arrived at an event on the first day of her mayoral campaign in central Mexico’s industrial heartland when the gunfire broke...
Hundreds Feared Dead in Papua New Guinea Landslide
Unstable rubble and debris were complicating search and rescue efforts in rural Papua New Guinea on Saturday, a day after a massive landslide buried villages...
Xi Jinping’s Recipe for Total Control: An Army of Eyes and Ears
The wall in the police station was covered in sheets of paper, one for every building in the sprawling Beijing apartment complex. Each sheet was...
Sometimes U.S. and U.K. Politics Seem in Lock Step. Not This Year.
A Conservative British prime minister sets the date for a long-awaited vote in the early summer and the United States follows with a momentous presidential...
Top U.N. Court Decision Adds to Israel’s Growing Isolation
In 2011, a former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, warned that Israel faced a “diplomatic-political tsunami” of censure if its conflict with the Palestinians went...
World Court Orders Israel to Halt Its Military Offensive Into Rafah
The International Court of Justice on Friday ordered Israel to “immediately” halt its military offensive in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, dealing another...