Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been facing anger from Israelis over the fate of the hostages, will meet with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday.
Families of hostages in Gaza and many others in Israel and abroad will be watching the Israeli prime minister’s address on Wednesday to hear how he will handle competing demands on his approach to the war.
The Israeli military warned Gazans to leave part of what it had previously designated as a relatively safe area in Khan Younis, saying Hamas had launched rockets from there.
President Biden’s stance on Ukraine was shaped by a deep commitment to America’s trans-Atlantic alliance. Some Europeans fear he may be among the last of his kind.
Israel’s counterattack on the Houthis, which set a vital Yemeni port ablaze, will do little to deter the militia, Yemeni and international experts said.
The strike was retaliation for a drone attack launched from Yemen a day earlier, which evaded Israel’s defenses and hit a building in Tel Aviv, killing one person.
After at least 10 sacks with body parts were found in a dump, a suspect was said to admit to 42 murders. But some doubt the case, and people with missing loved ones say the police were slow to help.
The country’s political workings are notably opaque, but for now the president, who was until recently minister of public security, is carrying out the duties of general secretary.
The drone crashed into a building near the U.S. Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv, killing at least one person. Israel’s military said the drone had likely come from Yemen, where the Houthis are based.
A firefight amid a recovery mission. At least 19 Israeli airstrikes. Scores of Palestinians killed. A Times visual analysis shows how the June 8 operation had such a high toll.
The European Union and the United States have recently imposed new sanctions on settlers and groups that they say have incited violence against Palestinians.
Survivors of a strike in Gaza on Saturday that Israel said had targeted Hamas’s top military leader described a scene of carnage, with fire, smoke, blood and bodies everywhere.
The Central African nation is voting on a potential fourth term for President Paul Kagame. Opposition figures say they have been threatened and arbitrarily detained.
After installing a Labour government for the first time in 14 years, the country is looking to a historical precedent as a presage to a long-awaited sporting success.
Even as production surges, domestic and foreign shifts in the global drug industry have devastated many poor Colombians whose livelihood is tied to cocaine.
Hamas overwhelmed Israel’s border in October with something like a conventional military maneuver. Now, it acts as a guerrilla force, its fighters often disguised as civilians.
Henna artists’ elaborate designs are a hallmark of Indian weddings. They also highlight a disparity where some are fabulously rich and many earn very little.
Since the recent killing of a police officer, Mannheim has become the byword for a hard line on deporting those who are denied asylum and commit violent crime.
People briefed on the talks said it would be days until it is clear whether there was a breakthrough, and other officials cautioned that previous hopes had been dashed.
The militant group’s leader says “the only way” to stop the hostilities across the Lebanon-Israel border is to negotiate an end to the fighting in Gaza.
The strike killed at least 27 people and wounded dozens, health authorities in the territory said. Israel said it had targeted a Hamas member who took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.
A theater director and playwright were sentenced to prison, a stark indication of the increasing suppression of free speech since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, their lawyers and critics say.
The final tally confirms that the left has the most seats in the National Assembly, with the far right third. Now, there’s a scramble to figure out a way forward.
With nearly all races called, the far-right National Rally fell short of predictions, but no coalition captured an absolute majority in Parliament. Months of gridlock could lie ahead.
Months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “victory is within reach,” the Israeli military escorted journalists into parts of a devastated Gazan city.
A nationwide exit poll indicated a decisive end to 14 years of Conservative rule. Labour’s center-left leader, Keir Starmer, was poised to become prime minister.
The storm, now a Category 3 hurricane, has already slammed Jamaica and Grenada this week. A hurricane warning was in effect for the Cayman Islands on Thursday.
Qatar sent Hamas potential amendments last week to a proposed deal backed by the United Nations and United States, according to two senior officials involved in the talks.
The Israeli military says its campaign will soon become less intense, but Palestinians were once again racing to escape the fighting in southern Gaza, including Khan Younis.
Israel’s military says its forces fired at areas of Khan Younis from which a rocket barrage was launched. Even as Israel prepares to focus on ‘targeted raids,’ it is telling people to leave a large swath of Gaza.
Palestinians had decried the detention of the director of Al-Shifa Hospital following an Israeli military raid. His release after seven months drew criticism and prompted finger-pointing among Israel officials.
A surprise decision by President Emmanuel Macron to hold a snap election appears to have backfired badly, giving the National Rally a decisive victory.