During the war with Hamas, troops patrolled the Netzarim Corridor, which splits Gaza, preventing evacuated Palestinians from returning north.
“All we have to do is look outside,” one delegate said. “The sea rises, the coral dies.”...
Despite a chummy relationship, new U.S. penalties on Russian energy were likely to be a sticking point as President Trump and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary met....
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education....
Amending state constitutions seemed like a long shot, but Virginia’s move shows more blue states may be willing to try, opening new possibilities....
The alternative, Ambassador Michael Waltz bluntly told diplomats, was to watch the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas give way to a return to war....
Toyota, Honda and Nissan forecast big hits to their profits from higher tariffs that they acknowledged were likely ‘here to stay.’...
Many East Germans are more sympathetic toward Moscow than their western compatriots, reflecting decades of Soviet ties and disillusionment since reunification....
Finland has spent decades digging caves into its bedrock. Now, as Russia rears its head, nervous Finns want to know: “Where’s my shelter?”...
Freed in a major prisoner swap, Aleksandra Skochilenko said “the values of freedom of speech, of peace, could be more important than spending even 10 years in jail.”...
The calls for action on opening day stood in sharp contrast to the position of the President Trump, who has called global warming a “con job.”...
The Kremlin is focusing its fire on Pokrovsk, a gateway to the Donetsk region, which Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, has long coveted....
Restrictions on publishers and sellers have grown more severe. Volumes are being pulled from shelves or redacted like secret documents, but bookstores remain important sources of community....
The plan, which officials said was intended to help air traffic controllers, could force the cancellation of thousands of flights as the administration seeks to pressure Democrats to end the shutdown....
Diplomats and leaders from around the world are gathering on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for annual talks on how to limit global warming....
Western capitals should be wary of treating democracy in Turkey as a luxury rather than a necessity....
Climate change enabled the storm to churn faster and grow more quickly, a rapid analysis found....
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, release from the grip of a group backed by Iran....
At least 11 people died when a cargo plane crashed after takeoff in Louisville, Ky. The airport reopened Wednesday morning, but officials warned the death toll could rise....
Anti-hunger groups and state officials have warned that the administration’s plans to make partial payments are onerous and could still result in severe harm....
Carmakers and their suppliers are piecing together new supply chains after a Chinese-owned company in the Netherlands was caught in the middle of the trade war, revealing European vulnerabilities....
Back-to-back storms this week could lead to flooding and power outages, forecasters warned....
Venezuela has an arsenal of Russian weapons and armed civilian cells that could mount a guerrilla war. But a coup against President Nicolás Maduro? Don’t count on it....
In Virginia, New Jersey and beyond, Democratic voters powered their candidates to victory and sent a warning sign to President Trump and his Republican Party....
Kataib Hezbollah, a hard-line Iraqi militia linked to Iran, held Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, hostage for more than two years....
In Ukraine, unmanned weapons hunt the wounded and medics alike. Moving injured soldiers to safety has never been more difficult....
A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change....
He tried to warn Americans about Trump, but they had already learned not to believe him....
Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some of his longtime critics....
Her haunting work focused on the lingering traces of conflict in places like Bosnia and Sierra Leone, after the firing had stopped....
Once pitched as dispassionate tools to answer your questions, A.I. chatbots are now programmed to reflect the biases of their creators....