Iran Risks Peace Talks With U.S. to Maintain Leverage Over Strait
Iran sees its control over the Strait of Hormuz as critical leverage in peace talks with the United States. It seems willing to risk the cease-fire to...
Deep Under the Rubble, Rescuers Find an 11-Year-Old Boy Alive
A Colombian rescue team worked for six hours to recover the child, Moises, from under nearly 10 feet of rubble in La Guaira. His rescue was captured o...
Dozens of Dogs Join Search for Venezuela Quake Survivors
Specially trained canines can pick up the scent of survivors beneath mounds of collapsed debris, indicating where clearance teams should begin digging...
Venezuela Live Updates: Rescuers Battle Through Aftershocks in Search for Survivors
More than three days after twin earthquakes devastated the Venezuelan coast, the rescue effort faced chaos and delays as the chances of finding surviv...
Mideast Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Trade Attacks With Few Signs of De-escalation
President Trump and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards exchanged threats and U.S. allies in the Gulf said they had intercepted Iranian drones, as hostilities...
As Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal, His Sons Stand to Profit
An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to o...
Venezuela Government Accused of Politicizing Quake Relief
Critics say the country’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, is trying to exploit the tragedy for her political benefit. Her supporters accuse the op...
What Life Is Like in Dahiya Amid a Hezbollah-Israel Truce in Lebanon
Dahiya, a sprawling area and Hezbollah stronghold, is stirring back to life amid a tense truce with Israel. “This war has brought so much loss,” one r...
China Confirms Death of Pilot Who Flew Small Plane Into Beijing’s Tallest Tower
The statement came a day after online images showed falling debris and plane parts. Another 13 were injured in the incident five miles from Communist ...
A Mayor Is Taking Maternity Leave in Japan. Some Men Are Furious.
Shoko Kawata is the first mayor to take maternity leave in Japan’s history. Her decision has prompted debate about gender discrimination in the work f...
Drones Used to Fight Mosquitoes as Dengue Fever Surges in Sri Lanka
The military has joined the battle against the insects, as an outbreak strains hospitals in a country already reeling from energy shortages caused by ...
U.S. Officials Said to Be Frustrated With Machado’s Call or Help
María Corina Machado, the exiled leader of the Venezuelan opposition, hopes to go home. U.S. officials say her wishes to do so come at an inopportune ...
Is There Anyone Alive? 12 Hours With Venezuelan Doctors in the Disaster Zone.
A medical team set out from the capital to rescue people in the hardest-hit part of the disaster zone, La Guaira. They found silence in the ruins inst...
In Venezuela’s Ruins, Civilians Fill the Gaps One ‘Grain of Sand’ at a Time
Volunteers have rushed to help earthquake victims, loading vehicles with medical supplies, shovels and other tools to assist rescue and recovery effor...
Deal With Israel Divides Lebanese, Fueling Protests in Beirut
Supporters welcomed the agreement as a step toward curtailing Iran’s influence within Lebanon, but others took to the streets, calling it a capitulati...
Venezuela Live Updates: Rescuers Work as Window Narrows to Find Quake Survivors
International teams were joining search efforts on Saturday after twin earthquakes killed more than 900 people in northern Venezuela and left many tra...
