Federal authorities in several countries have recently nabbed several caches of weapons headed to Haiti, but armed violence continues to rise there, with gangs increasingly […]
Month: March 2025
‘They Will Label Us as Spies’: The Afghan Students Abandoned by America
Students at the American University of Afghanistan in Qatar fear having to return to their Taliban-ruled homeland after aid and visa cutoffs by the Trump […]
French Schools Will Finally Teach Sex Education
For 25 years, France has said schools must teach sex ed. Now the government is at last putting a curriculum in place.
Myanmar Earthquake Toll Surpasses 1,600 Dead Amid Search for Survivors
Aid workers delivered the first shipments of help to Myanmar, but will have to cross a country buckled by the disaster and divided by civil […]
Syria’s Leader Appoints New Government After Ousting Assad
The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on a pledge to […]
Taliban Appears to Free American Woman Detained in Afghanistan
President Trump and a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan shared a video of a woman identified as Faye Hall thanking the president for her release […]
Search for Survivors at Collapsed Bangkok Building
The collapse of a 30-story building under construction was “not normal,” an engineering expert said. It was one of the biggest projects ever done by […]
Found: British Military Documents, Scattered on the Street
A man in Northern England said he had stumbled upon hundreds of documents, including threat assessments, armory codes and detailed base patrols. The Ministry of […]
Earthquake Devastates Myanmar’s Cultural Sites
The authorities said that thousands of buildings had been damaged, including about 150 mosques and pagodas.
Turkey’s Opposition Is Energized: ‘The Fire Is Already Lit’
Supporters of the political opposition are finding ways to fight back after the government jailed the top political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.