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Once one of his country’s most powerful figures, he helped found its main opposition party. “I had to face up to the harm I did to people when I served in the army,” he said.

Convicted in the murder of six women (though he boasted of killing many more), he died of unspecified injuries after being assaulted in prison.

The timing of the remarks seemed to rebuff the president’s hopes for a speedy end to the war. But some analysts said the prime minister was aiming at domestic supporters, not the White House.

She was hailed for her books and admired for promoting women’s rights. But her support for a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict angered many.

Summer returns, and with it all the feelings and fantasies and fears we associate with the season.

A watchdog agency found roadblocks to the flow of information both within the spy agency and the public service.

With rose windows, bell towers and a central spire, this model of the famed Paris cathedral is all the hype among adult fans of Lego, known as AFOLs.

A manufactured video fabricated comments by the State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller.

A police officer and an anti-Islamist activist were among the victims, according to the authorities, who have not released information on a motive.

President Biden outlined a road map put forward by Israel that would begin with an immediate, temporary cease-fire and work toward a permanent end to the war and the reconstruction of Gaza.

Ms. Cortiñas became a key member of a group of women whose children had been taken by the military dictatorship that led Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

She traveled from village to village in a crusade to stop a practice in which women have been accused of being witches and harshly punished, or even killed, for it.

The president outlined a plan to try to get Hamas and Israel to break out of a monthslong deadlock that has resulted in the killing of thousands of Palestinians.

“The destruction is indescribable,” said Mohammad Awais, who returned with his family to their home on Friday.

The U.S. secretary of state suggested that Ukraine’s use of American-supplied arms could expand beyond the current limitation to strikes in the Kharkiv area.

Even as it pivots to solar and wind for itself, Greece aims to become a natural gas supplier across Europe. Among its strongest backers is the United States.

Can an underdog still have its day in the Champions League? The sport should hope so.

Decisions by President Biden and others give Ukrainian forces several new options. But they’re still restricted in the use of Western missiles that could strike far inside Russia.

Pakistan and India are sweltering. For laborers, not working because of the extreme temperatures can mean not eating.

Women are increasingly reporting sexual harassment and abuse in the sport, including accusations against the renowned climber Nirmal Purja.

After weeks of entreaties, Ukraine won permission to hit targets inside Russia with American-made weapons, a tactic that it says will help it defend territory in the northeast.

The art is accessible, the attendees cut across the social spectrum and the architecture beguiles.

Good morning. We’re covering the verdict in Donald Trump’s criminal trial and U.S. permission for Ukraine to use American weapons inside Russia.

Prime Minister Robert Fico had been shot during a meeting with supporters. The hospital’s director told a TV station Mr. Fico could continue treatment at home.

Egypt’s government is weighing its “cornerstone” relationship with Israel against the economic damage the war in Gaza is inflicting and against the domestic outrage over the devastation there.

White House officials said the president’s major policy shift extended only to what they characterized as acts of self-defense so that Ukraine could protect Kharkiv, its second-largest city.

A radar facility more than 1,100 miles into Russia was damaged, satellite imagery showed. The attacks have drawn concern from U.S. officials.

An eight-mile-long strip of land between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is the latest focus of the Israeli assault on Hamas.

More NATO allies are backing Kyiv’s pleas to allow its forces to conduct strikes in Russian territory with Western weapons.

As votes trickled in, the power and influence of the African National Congress, which has led the country for 30 years, appeared to be waning.

Iran and an Israeli company also exploited the tools in online influence efforts, but none gained much traction, an OpenAI report said.

Its disclosure came after RansomHub claimed responsibility for the cyberattack and threatened to release client data on the dark web.

Analysts say an offensive in the Kharkiv or Sumy regions could stretch Ukrainian troops to the breaking point and allow Moscow to punch through.

The measure has divided Spain in recent months, and opponents vowed to keep trying to block it.

After appearing in multiple albums by the Beatles, the instrument was forgotten for more than 50 years before it turned up in the attic of a British countryside home.

Officials in the southern part of the country have rescued more than 12,500 animals in recent weeks since catastrophic floods inundated cities and towns.

Claudia Sheinbaum is the front-runner in Mexico’s presidential race, but she is wrestling with the image that she could be a pawn of the current president.

The number of Indians abroad is small relative to the country’s population. Indian political parties want their support anyway.

President Yoon Suk Yeol has been accused of intervening in an inquiry into an accidental death during a peacetime search and rescue operation.

Good morning. We’re covering a push to allow U.S. weapons in strikes within Russia as well as New Delhi’s record heat.

A man died and more than 70 other people were injured last week when a flight to Singapore from London hit sudden turbulence.

There is a substantial consensus among legal experts that Israel cannot continue its current Rafah offensive without violating the court’s order.

As part of China’s crackdown on even peaceful opposition, a court in Hong Kong convicted 14 people, who now face prison time along with dozens of others.

The assessment, at odds with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion that the country is “on the brink of victory,” came as Israel claimed control of a key buffer strip along Egypt’s border.

Nearly 800 guests staying at the Blue Lagoon spa and surrounding hotels were ordered to evacuate hours before a volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted.

Algeria, the only Arab representative in the current makeup of the Security Council, drafted the resolution.

President Biden is weighing fears of escalation with a nuclear-armed adversary as he considers whether to let Ukraine shoot American weapons into Russia.

The South Korean military said that they found 260 balloons from North Korea filled with cigarette butts, plastic water bottles and used paper and shoes.

An archaeologist, he wrote widely on everyday life under the pharaohs and did much of his fieldwork at Amarna, considered the Egyptian version of Pompeii.

The Dutch military police identified the man only as “an employee of a company operating at” Schiphol Airport. His death on Wednesday has been ruled a suicide.