If You Give a Frog a Sauna, It Might Fight Off a Deadly Fungus
For decades, a deadly fungal disease has been stalking the world’s amphibians, wiping out frogs, toads and salamanders from the mountain lakes of the United...
The U.S. imposes new sanctions to cut off funding to Iran-backed militant groups.
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on nearly 50 entities and people that it said were part of an Iranian operation to direct billions...
A U.N. official called on Israel to offer more protection for aid workers, as hunger experts warned that Gaza was at high risk of famine.
United Nations aid agencies have been demanding that the Israeli authorities do more to protect aid workers in the Gaza Strip and ensure that assistance...
Middle East Crisis: U.N. Presses Israel to Help in Delivering Aid to Gaza
Middle East Crisis: U.N. Presses Israel to Help in Delivering Aid to Gaza...
Tension and Tear Gas Linger in Kenya After Tax Protests Turn Deadly
A tense mood enveloped major cities across Kenya on Wednesday, a day after demonstrators against new tax increases stormed Parliament and set parts of it...
A Feline Scientist Explains Why Your Cat Might Actually Like You
This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions. Over the last two decades, a flurry of...
Mark Rutte Moves From Leading Netherlands to Heading NATO
Mark Rutte, the long-serving Dutch prime minister, was formally named the new secretary-general of NATO on Wednesday, putting an experienced, strongly pro-Ukraine leader with a...
Evan Gershkovich Appears in Russian Court
Evan Gershkovich Appears in Russian Court...
Rogue to Victim: What Australia Sees in Julian Assange
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, received a hero’s welcome even before he was set to arrive back in his home country of Australia on...
China’s Anguished Debate: Do Its Children Have a Crime Problem?
For nearly two years, Gong Junli has been waiting. Since his 8-year-old daughter, Xinyue, was stabbed multiple times and her body left in a grove...
Wednesday Briefing
Anti-tax riots rocked Kenya Kenya’s president, William Ruto, deployed the military yesterday to crack down on what he called “treasonous” protesters after thousands of demonstrators,...
Guess Who’s Back: A Trump Ally and Brexiteer Disrupts the U.K., Again
The crowd of 800 cheered as pyrotechnics lit up the theater stage in Clacton-on-Sea, a faded English seaside town, and the lyrics of an Eminem...
Russia to Start Secret Trial of U.S. Reporter Accused of Espionage
In his 15 months in Moscow’s infamous Lefortovo prison, Evan Gershkovich has plowed through Russian literary classics like “War and Peace,” and played slow-moving chess...
Assange’s Plea Deal Sets a Chilling Precedent, but It Could Have Been Worse
The plea deal Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has reached with prosecutors is bad for American press freedoms. But the outcome also could have...